THE COLLECTIVE Phil Cordelli G.L. Ford Ellie Ga Yelena Gluzman Garth Graeper Ryan Haley James Hoff David Jou Filip Marinovic Anna Moschovakis Julien Poirier Nick Rattner Linda Trimbath Genya Turovskaya Matvei Yankelevich << BACK	MATVEI YANKELEVICH is a founding editor of Ugly Duckling Presse, where he designs books, co-edits 6x6, and edits the Eastern European Poets Series. Matvei edited and translated TODAY I WROTE NOTHING: THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF DANIIL KHARMS (Overlook, 2007). He is a co-translator of OBERIU: AN ANTHOLOGY OF RUSSIAN ABSURDISM (Northwestern, 2006). His translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky's poem "A Cloud in Pants" is included in NIGHT WRAPS THE SKY: WRITINGS BY AND ABOUT MAYAKOVSKY (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008). He is the author of a long poem, THE PRESENT WORK (Palm Press, 2006). His writing has appeared in various small and tiny literary journals and on-line publications. From 1999-2001 he co-edited The EMERGENCY Gazette of theater matters, with Yelena Gluzman. His essays on Russian-American poets appear in Octopus Magazine (on-line). Matvei teaches Russian Literature at Hunter College in NYC. Links to Matvei's books: KHARMS / TODAY I WROTE NOTHING OBERIU ANTHOLOGY MAYAKOVSKY / NIGHT WRAPS THE SKY THE PRESENT WORK (a long poem) << BACK TO 'PEOPLE'