The Oxford Handbook of Russian Poetry

Catherine Ciepiela publishes on and translates modernist and contemporary Russian poetry. She is the author of The Same Solitude (2006), a study of Marina Tsvetaeva's epistolary romance with Boris Pasternak, and editor of two anthologies of Russian poetry in translation, The Stray Dog Cabaret (2007) and Relocations: 3 Contemporary Russian Women Poets (2013). Her translation of Polina Barskova's Living Pictures appeared in 2021. She is Howard M. and Martha P. Mitchell Professor of Russian at Amherst College and director of the Amherst Center for Russian Culture.Luba Golburt is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California-Berkeley. She is the author of The First Epoch: The Eighteenth Century and the Russian Cultural Imagination (2014) and many articles on Enlightenment and Romanticism, as well as on modern Russian poetry from the eighteenth century to the present. Her jointly written essay on “First Novels, First Publics” appeared in the Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel (2025), and she has edited collections of articles on Nikolai Nekrasov and Yan Satunovsky. She is currently at work on a case study-based critical history of the nature lyric in Russia.Stephanie Sandler has written on Pushkin, myths of Pushkin, and a number of modern Russian poets, several of whom she has also translated. She was a co-author of A History of Russian Literature (2018). She collaborated in editing and translating Olga Sedakova, In Praise of Poetry (2014) as well as a volume of essays about Sedakova's poetry and poetics (2019). In 2024 she published The Freest Speech in Russia: Poetry Unbound 1989-2022. She is Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Slavic Department at Harvard University.

• Part I. Timelines 1: Mikhail Odessky: Early Modern Russian Poetry 2: Tatiana Smoliarova and Andrey Kostin: Enlightenment and Classicism 3: Boris Gasparov: Romanticism 4: Luba Golburt: Russian Poetry in the Age of Prose 5: Irina Shevelenko: Modernism 6: Eugene Ostashevsky: Linguistic Materiality in the Avant-garde 7: Ilya Kukulin: Official, Unofficial, and Émigré Poetry 8: Kevin M. F. Platt: Post-Soviet, Postmodern, Contemporary, Beyond Part II. Maps 9: Heinrich Kirschbaum: Poetry and Empire 10: Catherine Ciepiela: Poetry in Diaspora 11: Polina Barskova: The Petersburg Text 12: Ainsley Morse: Moscow Poetry 13: Jennifer Flaherty: The Countryside Part III. Networks 14: Daria Khitrova: Poetry of Literary Circles in the Golden Age 15: Susanne Fusso: Editors and Poets 16: Jonathan Stone: Russian Poetry in Journals and Periodicals 17: Ilja Kukuj: Soviet Underground Poetry 18: Mikhail Gronas and Artjoms %Se,la: Poetry in the Age of Networks Part IV. Forms 19: Boris Maslov: Theories of Poetic Form 20: Nila Friedberg: Versification 21: Irina Reyfman: Fixed Forms in the Russian Poetic Tradition 22: Michael Wachtel: The Poema Part V. Intersections 23: Martha M. F. Kelly: Poetry and Orthodoxy 24: Philip Ross Bullock: Poetry and Music in Nineteenth-Century Russia 25: Stephanie Sandler: Poetry and the Visual 26: Maria Khotimsky: Poetry and Translation 27: Andrew Kahn: Poetry and Memory 28: Sofya Khagi: Poetry and Philosophy Part VI. Performances 29: Ilya Vinitsky: The Court Poet 30: Kirill Ospovat: The Poet Orator 31: Mikhail Makeev: The Poor Poet 32: Sibelan Forrester: The Woman Poet 33: Mark Lipovetsky: The Soviet Poet 34: Isobel Palmer: Performed Poetry Part VII. Rereadings 35: Vladimir Gandelsman: Rereading Mandelstam's Voronezh Notebooks 36: Sergey Zavyalov: The Poetry of Socialist Realism 37: Olga Sedakova: Anna Barkova, an Epoch's Witness 38: Stanislav Lvovsky: Viktor Krivulin, Historian of Time 39: Lev Oborin: Mikhail Eremin and the Tradition of Russian Scientific Poetry 40: Anna Glazova: Minimalism as a Last Resort