[Ridgewood]

Corina Copp, Eugene Ostashevsky, Matvei Yankelevich, and Steven Zultanski
July 14, 2012, 6:00 pm
at Regina Rex

Readings by: Corina Copp, Eugene Ostashevsky, Matvei Yankelevich and Steven Zultanski Regina Rex 1717 Troutman #329 Queens, NY 11385 Please join us outside on the deck of 1717 Troutman for a poetry reading in conjunction with the exhibition Letters Not About Love: EJ Hauser, Nancy Haynes and Sarah Peters. As the show is titled after Russian poet Victor Shklovsky book of letters, this reading brings together four poets—Corina Copp, Eugene Ostashevsky, Matvei Yankelevich and Steven Zultanski— with a shared appreciation for the work of Shklovsky and the themes of the exhibition. This will be the final weekend of the show (closing on Sunday July 15th) and we will celebrate with a BBQ following the reading. Corina Copp is most recently the author of Pro Magenta/Be Met (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011), with publications forthcoming from Bad Press, Minutes Books, and Trafficker Press. An excerpt of her play The Whole Tragedy of the Inability to Love: Part 1. SUSANSWERPHONE has just been published at The Claudius App III; other writing can be found soon or now in SFMOMA's Open Space, The Broome Street Review, Telephone's The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare (Nightboat), Out of Everywhere: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and the UK (second edition, Reality Street), and Boston Review. She is a former editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter (2009-2011), and lives in Brooklyn. Eugene Ostashevsky is a Russian-American poet and translator residing in New York City. His books of poems include The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza and Iterature, both published by Ugly Duckling Presse. As translator, Ostashevsky has edited OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism, the first English-language anthology of writings by a 1920s-30s Leningrad avant-garde group led by Alexander Vvedensky and Daniil Kharms. Look for videos of his poetry on YouTube and for recordings at http://fishouse.org/archives/eugene_ostashevsky/index.shtml.Brooklyn. Matvei Yankelevich is the author of the poetry collection Alpha Donut (United Artists Books, 2012), and a novel in fragments, Boris by the Sea (Octopus Books, 2009), as well as several chapbooks. He is the translator and editor of Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook, 2007). He is one of the founding editors of Ugly Duckling Presse (where he runs the Eastern European Poets Series), and a member of the writing faculty of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Steven Zultanski is the author of Pad (Make Now Press), Cop Kisser, and Agony (both from BookThug). He co-curates the Segue Reading Series, and occasionally other things too. He lives in Brooklyn.