Save the Dates: RUSSIAN POETRY AT and AROUND UPENN

[Kevin M. F. Platt]

Please join us in Philadelphia during the week of April 18-23 for a  
series of events devoted to cutting-edge Russian poetry:

YOUR LANGUAGE--MY EAR: RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN POETRY AT CLOSE QUARTERS

"Your Language--My Ear" brings together poets and scholars from the  
region's major universities with contemporary Russian-language poets  
from Russia and Eastern Europe for a week of performance, translation  
and study from April 18-23, 2011. Events include poetry readings,  
public lectures, and translation workshops at local venues as well as  
on the Penn campus.

"Your-Language--My Ear" is sponsored by the Open World Program of CEC  
Arts Link (New York), as well as the Kelly Writers House, English  
Department, Slavic Department and Comparative Literature Program at  
the University of Pennsylvania.

SCHEDULED EVENTS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC INCLUDE:

RUSSIAN-ENGLISH BILINGUAL POETRY READING: Poetry Reading: Monday,  
April 18th, 7pm, at Robin's Bookstore in Center City, Philadelphia
Four emerging poets from locations spanning Russia will read their  
poems in the original, with English speakers providing parallel  
readings in translation.
Robin's Bookstore is located at 110a S. 13th St., Philadelphia  
(between Chestnut and Walnut), PA 19107, 215-567-2615,http://www.robinsbookstore.com/

RUSSIAN-ENGLISH BILINGUAL POETRY READING: Wednesday, April 20th, 7pm,  
at Wooden Shoe Books in Center City, Philadelphia
Four emerging poets from locations spanning Russia will read their  
poems in the original, with English speakers providing parallel  
readings in translation.
Wooden Shoe Books is located at 704 South St., Philadelphia, PA 19147,  
215-413-0999, http://www.woodenshoebooks.com/home.html

PUBLIC LECTURE by MATVEI YANKELEVICH (Ugly Duckling Presse): Friday,  
April 22nd, 5pm in Fisher-Bennett Hall, rm. 401, on the Penn campus
"The Task of Translation and the Notion of the Contemporary in Russian  
Poetry"
Fisher-Bennett Hall is located on the University of Pennsylvania  
Campus at 3340 Walnut St., at the corner of Walnut and 34th St.

SYMPOSIUM: YOUR LANGUAGE--MY EAR: RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN POETRY AT CLOSE  
QUARTERS: Saturday, April 23rd, 8:45-4:00pm in the Max Kade Center on  
the Penn campus
Presentations (in English) on contemporary Russian poetry by Polina  
Barskova (Hampshire College), Eugene Ostashevsky (NYU), Kevin M. F.  
Platt (Penn), Stephanie Sandler (Harvard), Michael Wachtel (Princeton)  
and Matvei Yankelevich (Ugly Duckling Presse).
The Max Kade Center is located on the University of Pennsylvania  
Campus at 3401 Walnut St. in Suite 329A, at the corner of Walnut and  
34th St., above the Starbucks.

RUSSIAN-ENGLISH BILINGUAL POETRY READING: Saturday, April 23rd,  
5:00-7:00pm in College Hall, rm. 200 on the Penn campus
A grand public reading of translations produced during the week. Seven  
Russian-language poets from Russia and Eastern Europe will be joined  
by Polina Barskova (Hampshire College), Eugene Ostashevsky (NYU),  
Charles Bernstein, Julia Bloch, Sarah Dowling and Bob Perelman (all  
from Penn).
College Hall is located on the main quad of the University of  
Pennsylvania, extending from the southwest corner of 34th St. and  
Walnut St.

For complete information about all events, refer back later to the  
Penn Slavic Department website:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slavic/events/current_events.htm

or contact:

Professor Kevin M. F. Platt
Chair, Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory
Acting Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
720 Williams Hall
255 S. 36th Street
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

kmfplatt at sas.upenn.edu
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slavic/faculty/platt.htm

Tel: 215-898-6839
Fax: 215-573-7794













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