[Milwaukee]

Corina Copp, Matvei Yankelevich, & Cathy Wagner
March 5, 2012, 7:30 pm
at The Laundry Chute

Corina Copp is a poet and playwright living in Brooklyn, New York. She is most recently the author of Marauder (forthcoming, Minutes Books) and Pro Magenta/Be Met (UDP 2011). Poetry and criticism includes writing on Yvonne Rainer, Jean Day, and Hannah Weiner, and can be found in CLOCK, Boston Review, BOMB, Cambridge Literary Review, Supermachine, Wild Orchids, The Brooklyn Rail, and other journals. Plays: Tell No One (Invisible Dog/Small Press Traffic 2011), WALTZ (E. 13th Street Rep 2010), and A Week of Kindness (Incubator Arts/Brick Theater 2007). Copp is a curator with the Segue Foundation, a member of machiqq (Ladies Playwriting Auxiliary Team), and a former editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter (2009-2011). She is currently working on The Whole Tragedy of the Inability to Love: A Performance Trilogy. Matvei Yankelevich's books and chapbooks include Boris by the Sea (Octopus Books), The Present Work (Palm Press), and Writing in the Margin (Loudmouth Collective). His writing has appeared in Action Yes!, Boston Review, Damn the Caesars, Fence, Open City, Tantalum, Typo, Zen Monster, and other little magazines. His translations from Russian have cropped up in Calque, Circumference, Harpers, New American Writing, Poetry, the New Yorker, and in some anthologies, including OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism (Northwestern) and Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky (FSG). His translations of Daniil Kharms were collected in Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Ardis/Overlook) and received praise from the TLS, the Guardian, the New York Times, and elsewhere. He edited a portfolio of Contemporary Russian Poetry and Poetics for the magazine Aufgabe (No. 8, Fall 2009) and has written essays on Russian-American poetry for Octopus magazine online. He teaches at Hunter College, Columbia University School of the Arts (Writing Division), and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. At Ugly Duckling Presse, he designs and/or edits many and various books, is the editor of the Eastern European Poets Series, and a co-editor of 6×6. He lives in Brooklyn. Also featuring Cathy Wagner. Plumberries Press is a mobile press invested in the tangible, committed to the tactile, but has acquiesced to posting things online. When not caught up in working themselves into the oracle and upping their traffic, they work on limited runs of journals and chapbooks with an emphasis on quality ingredients and unique production aesthetics.