Olena Jennings
Olena Jennings is a Piltdown Review Featured Poet for June 2018. She is the author of Songs from an Apartment (Underground Books, 2017), a collection of poetry. Her translations of Ukrainian poetry appeared in the anthology Words for War (Academic Studies Press, 2017, together with Oksana Lutsyshyna) as well as The Kitchen Poet, Poetry International, and Wolf. Jennings’ translations of Iryna Shuvalova’s poetry collection will be released in 2019 by Lost Horse Press.
Transcendence
No difference between night and day when during sleep the world changes. You repeatedly pull yourself out and the crowd pushes you.
Centerpiece
The women sit before a turkey, baked for hours, always counting the minutes, tapping feet to a tune.
