04/04/2012
Moscow-issue contributor Dmitry Kuzmin is coming to town...
SPR is bringing celebrated Russian poet and translator Dmitry Kuzmin to the USA for a limited series of readings in Boston and NYC! All readings are free and open to the public. Here are the upcoming NYC dates:
April 18, 2012
Russian Bookstore No. 21
174 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10010
7:30 p.m.
Presented by St. Petersburg Review and Cardinal Points
Additional Sponsors: Russian American Cultural Center and Ugly Duckling Presse
April 19, 2012
Panel Discussion: Poetry and Globalization
Speakers: Ram Devineni, Elizabeth Hodges, Dmitry Kuzmin, Uche Nduka, Murat Nemet-Nejat, and Elizabeth Zuba.
Eugene Ostashevsky-Moderator
New York University
19 University Place, Great Room (first floor)
5:00 p.m.
April 20, 2012
Unnameable Books
600 Vanderbilt Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Contact: Adam Tobin
7:30 p.m.
Presented by St. Petersburg Review and Box of Jars
Additional Sponsors: A Public Space and Ugly Duckling Presse
DMITRY KUZMIN is a Russian poet, born in Moscow in 1968, an editor and publisher of present-day Russian poetry, editor-in chief of ARGO-RISK Publishers (since 1993), Vavilon.Ru Internet Project (since 1997) and Vozdukh (quarterly poetry magazine, since 2006). Kuzmin has translated into Russian poetry of Charles Reznikoff, E. E. Cummings, Charles Simic and other American authors. In 2003, Kuzmin won an Andrew Bely prize for “services to Russian literature.” His poetry in English translation can be found in: Essay in Poetics: Journal of Neo- Formalist Circle, Newcastle, Keel University, 1994 (tr. Robert Reid), Out of the Blue: Russia’s Hidden Gay Literature. An Anthology, edited by Kevin Moss, San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1996 (tr. Vitaly Chernetsky), Crossing Centuries: The New Wave in Russian Poetry, Jersey City, Talisman House Publishers, 2000, (tr. Vitaly Chernetsky). He also contributed to: Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States, Dalkey Archive Press, 2004, and An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets, University Of Iowa Press, 2005.
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