Sasha Burshteyn is a poet. Her writing has appeared in The Yale Review, The Paris Review Daily, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn.
Poetry
Fall 2025
Light Work
1.1 Light works on objects over time.1.2 This gives us the photo and its negative, an image in duplicate and reverse.1.3 The photographer must be lying on the ground, flat […]
Poetry
Fall 2025
Fenton’s Task
Wine cart converted to darkroom,Roger Fenton’s photographic vanhad yellow-tinted windows, sectionsfor chemistry and sleep.He drove to war with a consumptive urgeto document. To Crimea, to behold the shoreswhere Agamemnon sailed. […]