Yana Kane

Yana Kane came to the United States as a refugee from the Soviet Union. She holds a BSE from Princeton University, a PhD in Statistics from Cornell University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her book of translations of Ukrainian poet Dmitry Blizniuk titled “My Fish Will Stay Alive” is forthcoming from Serving House Books. She won the 2024 RHINO Poetry Translation Prize, was a finalist for the 2025 Gabo Prize, and received an honorable mention in the 2024 Stephen Mitchell Prize competition. Her translations appeared in Deep Vellum’s 2025 Best Literary Translations anthology and were listed for their 2026 anthology. She is grateful to Bruce Esrig for editing her English-language texts.

“The Martian Chronicles,” “Cesura,” and “One Hundred Horses by Giuseppe Castiglione”

Is there a planet where words silence
a cannon’s demented mouth?

Here, on Earth, furious iron roars
past all reason, past all pleading.
No warding it off
with incantations, prayers,
poetry.
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