Friday January 24th at 7PM at Innisfree- Four Russian Poets - Barskova, Pavlova, Rybakova, and Slivkin Polina Barskova (b. 1976, Leningrad) began publishing poems in journals at age nine and released the first of her eight collections as a teenager. She came to the United States at the age of twenty to pursue a Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. Barskova now lives in Massachusetts with her family and teaches at Hampshire College. She is the author of six books of poetry in Russian. Two books of her poetry in translation were published recently: This Lamentable City (translated by Ilya Kaminsky, Tupelo Press, 2010) and Zoo in Winter (translated by David Stromberg, Boris Draliuk, Melville House, 2011). She will be featured in the forthcoming anthology Relocations: Three Contemporary Women Poets (Zephyr Press, 2013).Barskovas poetry also has been translated into French, Italian, Danish. Currently she is holding the rank of associate professor of Russian literature at Hampshire College. Her scholarly publications include articles on Nabokov, the Bakhtin brothers, early Soviet film, and the aestheticization of historical trauma. Vera Pavlova (b.1963, Moscow) is a graduate of the Schnittke College of Music and the Gnessin Academy of Music, where she specialized in history of music and wrote her dissertation on the chamber vocal cycles of Shostakovich. She began writing poetry at the age of twenty, after the birth of her first daughter, while she was still at the maternity ward. To date, Pavlova has published seventeen collections of poetry in Russian. Stage productions based on Pavlova’s works are included in the repertoires of theatres in the cities of Moscow, Perm, and Skopin. Documentary films on Vera Pavlova have been released in Russia and the United States. In the United States, Pavlova’s poems have appeared in Verse, Tin House, The New Yorker, and Poetry magazines, as well as in The New York Times. One of her poems was selected by the Poetry in Motion program and was displayed as a poster in subway cars in New York City and in Los Angeles buses; it was also issued as a bookmark by the Poetry Society of America. That poem has served as the title of Pavlova’s first collection in English, IF THERE IS SOMETHING TO DESIRE (Alfred A. Knopf Publishing, 2010). Maria Rybakova (b, 1973, Moscow) is an award-winning author of four novels and numerous novellas. Her books are translated into German, Spanish, and French. Her novel-in-verse, Gnedich, published in 2011, has received literary awards in both poetry and prose categories. She studied Classics starting at the age of 17, when she entered Moscow University, and moved to Germany when she was 20 to continue her studies at the Humboldt University, ultimately receiving a Ph.D. degree in Classics from Yale University in 2004. Over the years she worked and travelled in number of places, including Geneva, Munich, the Mekong River region in Thailand, and Northeast China. She was awarded Sergei Dovlatov Award in 2003 for the best Russian language short story. In 2005, Rybakova was a writer-in-residence at Bard College, and in 2006-2007 she taught at California State University, Long Beach. In autumn 2007 she joined the Classics and Humanities faculty of San Diego State University, where she currently holds the rank of the Associate Professor of Classics. Yevgeny Slivkin (b. 1955, Leningrad) is the author of four collections of poetry published in Russia and numerous scholarly articles which have appeared in American, European, and Russian professional academic journals. His poems are included in several significant anthologies of contemporary Russian poetry. Slivkin has translated into English and published some of the most difficult and exhilarating poets in Spanish, including Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Miguel Hernández (Unceasing Lightning as well as his Prison Poems) and the two great Spanish masters of the baroque, Francisco de Quevedo and Luis de Góngora. He has received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the A. M. Gorky Institute for Literary Studies of the Union of Soviet Writers in Moscow and a Ph.D. in Russian Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a main focus on Russian Literature of the 19th century. In Russia he worked as a screen writer and a journalist for the Editorial Office of Artistic Broadcasting of the St. Petersburg Television Company. Currently he is holding the rank of Lecturer in Russian Language and Literature at the University of Denver.
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