Announcements

Women, Feminists, and Other Poets

July 19, 2021

Ainsley Morse and Rebekah Smith convened a great series through NYU's Jordan Center, and I was very pleased to join in the conversation with Oksana Vasiakina and Elena Fanailova. The event was recorded: https://jordanrussiacenter.org/event/women-feminists...

A Conversation with Maria Stepanova

June 04, 2021

I enjoyed the conversation with Maria Stepanova, her translator Sasha Dugdale, and our host, Oliver Ready, to talk about the publication of three volumes of Maria's work in Engilsh this year. The seminar, organized through St Antony's College at Oxford...

At the Crossing of Places: Contemporary Poetry in Translation

July 15, 2020

I joined in a splendid podcast for V-A-C Sreda, hosted by Karen Sarkisov, to talk about poets, translation, and women poets in particular. It was recorded: https://sreda.v-a-c.org/listen-11-en/.

Symposium on Contemporary Translation in Transition: English, German, and Russian Poetry

March 06, 2020

Sponsored by the DFG, University of Trier, and multiple Harvard supporters, I joined with Henrieke Stahl, Maria Khotimsky, Will Waters, and Friederike Reents to organize this symposium on what turned out to be the eve of the pandemic lockdown. We were...

History of Russian Literature

April 16, 2018

The History of Russian Literature on which I've been working with Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, and Irina Reyfman for quite a while has just been published, to our near disbelief. It's been a great pleasure to work with such splendid co-authors and...

Utopia After Utopia

March 04, 2016

I'll speak about the poetry of Lida Yusupova at the Yale workshop (March 4-5, 2016) organized by Marijeta Bozovic and Marta Figlierowicz. Their larger project is situated here: http://utopiaafterutopia.com, where likely a full program will soon appear.

Russian Library Forum on Russia's Nobel Prize Winners

December 16, 2015

Very pleased to have been a participant in the Russian Library's discussion of Russia's Nobel Prize winners. Excellent presentations by Solomon Volkov, Antonina Bouis, and Peter Constantine about Sholokhov, Bunin, and Solzhenitsyn respectively. I spoke...

The Russian Library

July 06, 2015

I am pleased to join in the work of bringing a huge new Russian Library of literary classics and new work into English translation, to be published by Columbia University Press. Here's the New York Times report on our meeting in Moscow on June 27, 2015...

How to Read a Russian Poem: Osip Mandelstam's "Armed with the Eye of the Arrowing Wasp"

September 23, 2014

I am speaking at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard about this remarkable Mandelstam poem in their Master Class series, on Tuesday, September 23, 2014, 4:00 p.m., Room 110 (Thompson Room) in the Barker Center. Come if you're in town!

Olga Sedakova, In Praise of Poetry

August 13, 2014

Open Letter Press has just released the advance copies of our translation of Olga Sedakova, In Praise of Poetry. Together with Caroline Clark and Ksenia Golubovich, I worked for several years on the large, challenging texts in this book: the prose memoir...

Seminar on Contemporary Russian Poetry, Moscow, June, 2013

June 19, 2013

I will speak on contemporary poetry at the Institute of LInguistics (Institut iazykoznaniia, Akademiia Nauk) on Thursday, June 27, 2013, at 4:00 as part of the Seminar Series "Mirovye poeticheskie praktiki." Here's the link with all the information: http...

IMAGE, DIALOGUE, EXPERIMENT: NEW ESSAYS ON CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN POETRY