The book contains conversations with poets from Russia and Eastern Europe (Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine), working in New York and in its literary orbit, about the diaspora, emigration and its “waves,” native and non-native languages, architecture and urbanism, the intersection of geographical, political and semiotic boundaries, points of repulsion and attraction between different generations of literary diasporas of the late 20th – early 21st centuries. The “common ground” of the conversations is New York, its urban, literary and mythological landscape, viewed through the prism of language and poetic traditions and compared with other centers of Russian and Eastern European cultures in the diaspora and in the metropolis.