Poetry Reading at Hunter College, CUNY: Alexei Tsvetkov & Vera Pavlova

[Julia Trubikhina]

Dear friends,


You are cordially invited to a poetry reading by Russianpoets Alexei Tsvetkov (New York) and VeraPavlova (Moscow/New York; with her Englishtranslator Steven Seymour) at Hunter College, CUNY. The readingwill be in Russian and English, followed by a conversation/ Q&A and areception. Most poems will be read with their English translations. 

When:  Friday, April 8, at 5 p.m. 
Where: Hunter College,CUNY at Lexington Ave. and East 68th Street. Hunter Westbuilding (you can enter it straight fromthe Subway 6 line), in B126 (Chanin Language lab club room—below thestreet level).


The reading is open to public.

 
Alexei Tsvetkov is a well-known Russian poet and essayist. Togetherwith Russian poets Sergei Gandlevsky, Bakhyt Kenjeev, and Alexander Soprovskyhe founded the unofficial poetry group “Moscow Time.” In 1975 he was arrestedand deported from Moscow and emigrated to the US in the same year. He editedthe émigré newspaper “Russian Life” in San Francisco in 1976-79. Received hisPhD from University of Michigan. Tsvetkov taught Russian language andliterature at Dickinson College and worked as an international broadcaster atthe Voice of America radio station. From 1989 to 2007 he worked at the RadioLiberty/Radio Free Europe (in Munich and in Prague). He currently lives andworks in New York. Author of many books, including, most recently, BedtimeStory  and Sense Detector (2010), as well as a new translation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet(2010)
 
Vera Pavlova was born in Moscow and graduated from the GnessinAcademy of music with a degree in history of music. She began writing poetry atthe age of twenty, and is the author of fifteen collections of poetry andlibrettos to five operas and four cantatas. Her poems have been translated intotwenty-one languages. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including theApollon Grigoriev Grand Prize (2001). One of the four poems by Pavlova featuredin The New Yorker was selected by the Poetry in Motion program and wasdisplayed in subway cars in New York City, as well as in buses in Los Angeles.She is currently one of the best selling poets in Russia. IF THERE ISSOMETHING TO DESIRE (Alfred A.Knopf)is Pavlova's first collection in English; since its publication in January 2010the book has been rated among the top ten poetry bestsellers of the year.
For more information on VeraPavlova please visit verapavlova.us
 

 

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