Olga Livshin

Olga Livshin’s poetry recently appears in Poetry and the Southern Review, and is forthcoming from AGNI. She is the author of A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman (Poets & Traitors Press, 2019).

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November 26, 2025
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November 26, 2025

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