Matvei Yankelevich Reads at In Your Ear

Poet and translator Matvei Yankelevich reads at the In Your Ear series at the DC Arts Center, January 17, 2010. Introduction by Maureen Thorson.

Matvei Yankelevich is the author of a few chapbooks, including THE PRESENT WORK (Palm Press, 2006). He is also the translator of Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook, 2007; Ardis/Overlook paperback, 2009), and has contributed translations to OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism (Northwestern Univ., 2006), Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky (FSG, 2008); and Contemporary Russian Poetry (Dalkey Archive, 2008) as well as many periodicals, including Harpers and The New Yorker. He teaches Russian Literature at Hunter College, and lives in Brooklyn. He is a founding member of Ugly Duckling Presse where he continues to design and edit various books of art, poetry, and translation. His latest book is Boris by the Sea, available from Octopus Books at http://www.octopusbooks.net/ and through Small Press Distribution at http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780980193824/boris-by-the-sea.aspx.

In Your Ear is a reading series at the DC Arts Center curated by Maureen Thorson and Buck Downs. More information at http://www.dcartscenter.org.

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