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Olena Jennings

OLENA JENNINGS is the author of the poetry chapbooks Songs from an Apartment and Memory Project . Her translation from Ukrainian of Iryna Shuvalova’s poetry collection, Pray to the Empty Wells, in collaboration with the author, was released in 2019 by Lost Horse Press. Her translation with Oksana Lutsyshyna of Artem Chekh’s Absolute Zero was released in 2020 by Glagoslav. Her novel Temporary Shelter is forthcoming from Cervena Barva. She is the founder and curator of the Poets of Queens reading series.

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Olena Jennings

We were trapped inside. We used to throw our cigarette butts out the window. We were leaving pieces of ourselves everywhere then. The soles of my shoes crumbled and the threads of my shirts unraveled. He came to se...