GENYA TUROVSKAYA was born in Kiev, Ukraine and grew up in New York City. Her poetry and translations from Russian have appeared in Chicago Review, Conjunctions, 6x6, Aufgabe, Poets and Poems, Octopus, and other publications.  She lives in Brooklyn where she edits the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse.

everything else is a lie

but for this I would lie down

to pause

in un-fluxed topos