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Elisavietta Ritchie

Elisavietta Ritchie

Elisavietta Ritchie: writer, poet, editor, photojournalist, teacher, translator Russian and French: poetry, fiction, non-literary articles, photographs, widely published, anthologized, translated. BOOKS: Reflections: Poems on Paintings, A Poet’s Gallery, (2017); Timbot, a novella in verse (new version, 2017, originally 1970); Babushka’s Beads: A Geography of Genes (2016); Guy Wires, (2015); Tiger Upstairs on Connecticut Avenue; Feathers, Or, Love on the Wing; Cormorant Beyond the Compost, Awaiting Permission to Land; Arc of the Storm, Elegy for the Other Woman. Flying Time: Stories & Half-Stories; In Haste I Write You This Note: Stories & Half-Stories (print and e-book).

PoetryApril 11, 2017

Terra Irredenta

By Elisavietta Ritchie

Washington, D.C. A doe and fawn in our driveway— Two fox cubs play in the yard. A pair of red-tailed hawks patrol the ravine…

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