[Brooklyn]

Lighght Reading with Ainsley Morse & Bela Shayevich, Brian Droitcour, David B. Goldstein
March 21, 2014, 7:00 pm
at Berl's Poetry Shop

Join us for the first installment of Lighght Reading, a new reading series from UDP.Lighght Reading will occur bi-monthly at a variety of locations in New York City and beyond; all events will be free and open to the public. Limited-edition broadsides, letterpressed at the UDP studio, will accompany each reading.Readers:Ainsley Morse & Bela Shayevich Brian Droitcour David B. GoldsteinAinsley Morse has been translating 20th- and 21st-century Russian and (former-) Yugoslav literature since 2006. A longtime student of both literatures, she is currently pursuing a PhD in Slavic literatures at Harvard University. Recent publications include Andrei Sen-Senkov's Anatomical Theater(translated with Peter Golub, Zephyr Press, 2013.Bela Shayevich is a writer, translator, and illustrator living in Chicago. Her translations have appeared in It's No Good by Kirill Medvedev (UDP / n+1, 2012) and various periodicals including Little Star, St. Petersburg Review, and Calque. She was the editor of n+1 magazine's translations of the Pussy Riot closing statements. Brian Droitcour is a writer, translator, critic, an editor at the New Inquiry and a PhD candidate in comparative literature at New York University. He has contributed reviews and essays to Artforum, Art in America, and Rhizome, among other publications, and his angry letters to the editor have been published in Artforum and n+1. He has been using Yelp as a platform for art criticism since January 2012 and his account was given Elite status this fall. His web site fifteenstars.com, a collection of found Yelp reviews with illustrations and an accompanying essay, was featured as part of the New Museum's First Look series of online exhibitions in October 2013. Among other projects, Brian is currently editing Klaus_ebooks, a series of artists' ebooks published by Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, and in collaboration with Yelena Kalinsky he is translating a collection of poems by Russian artist and poet Andrei Monastyrski, to be published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2015. David B. Goldstein is the author of Laws of Rest (BookThug, 2013) and the forthcoming Object Permanence (UDP, 2014).For more info, see the facebook event page