[New York]

Discussion with Polina Barskova
October 15, 2018, 6:00 pm
at Barnard College

WRITTEN IN THE DARK AND BROUGHT TO LIGHT: AFTERLIVES OF THE SIEGE POETRYPlease join the Barnard and Columbia Slavic Departments and the Harriman Institute for a talk with Polina Barskova (Hampshire College), a Russian-language poet and American scholar of the Siege of Leningrad (1941-1944). In this lecture, Polina Barskova will consider intersections in her creative and scholarly work. Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad (Ugly Duckling Press, 2016), an anthology that she edited recently, presents a group of writers and a literary phenomenon that has been unknown even to Russian readers for seventy years, obfuscated by historical amnesia. The event will be held in the Ella Weed Room, 223 Milbank Hall at Barnard College. More info here.