Художники существуют только потому, что мир несовершенен. An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live…
This video is making the internet rounds. It’s been described as triumphant. (It's of U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe being asked to describe herself in…
I was humored and humbled when Columbia University asked me to be on this panel:
Very much looking forward to reading, to hearing the work of my fellow alums, and to seeing anyone in NYC who is able to come!…
On August 31, 1999, a handmade bomb exploded in a popular Moscow shopping mall. I was there, and watched rubble, dust, and screaming erupt around me. Read more about the event and my changing understanding of this experience in an essay over at Pacific Standard.
A few exciting updates: My collection of poems entitled "Short-Shorts" was named a semi-finalist in the Gazing Grain Press Feminist Poetry Chapbook contest. I'd been…
A Facebook friend who’d moved to the U.S. from St. Petersburg in his thirties recently posted a frustrated status update in which he complained about…
DC is supposedly the country's #1 gay mecca, yet 4 gay bars closed in the city in the last year alone. Wondering what's going on?…
Hey, that's me, apparently! More details on my reading this coming Sunday here. It's an honor to read at SPARKLE, DC's own queer-themed open mic, hosted…
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I'll be at Bloombars in Columbia Heights this Sunday from 3-5pm, as part of the PERFORMETRY series, doing my first reading since I moved back…
Tanya Paperny 