[New York NY]

Lev Rubinstein: a bilingual reading at Hunter College
February 6, 2020, 6:00 pm
at 68th St - Hunter College

A poetry reading in Russian, with English translation at the Elizabeth Hemmerdinger Center (706 HE) at Hunter College.
Co-hosted by Russian and East European Cultures at Hunter College and Ugly Duckling Presse.

Born in 1947, Lev Rubinstein was a major figure of Moscow Conceptualism and the unofficial Soviet art scene of the 1970s and 1980s. While working as a librarian, he began using catalogue cards to write sequential texts. He described his “note-card poems” as a “hybrid genre” that “slides along the edges of genres and, like a small mirror, fleetingly reflects each of them, without identifying with any of them.” His work was circulated through samizdat and underground readings in the “unofficial” art scene of the sixties and seventies, finding wide publication only after the late 1980s. Now among Russia’s most well-known living poets, Rubinstein lives in Moscow and writes cultural criticism for independent media. His books in English translation include Here I Am (Glas, 2001), Thirty-Five New Pages (UDP, 2011), and Compleat Catalogue of Comedic Novelties (UDP, 2014), in which his note-card poems appear in their entirety.

 

RSVP on the Hunter Russian Club website to be put on the guest list. ( https://www.reechunter.com/rsvp.html )

Photo ID required to enter Hunter West Building.

HOW TO FIND THE ROOM:
From the reception desk at the entrance to Hunter West Bldg, take the escalator to Floor 3, walk across the sky bridge to Hunter East Bldg, take the elevator to Floor 7, and present your pass to security by the turnstiles. Hemmerdinger Screening Room is down the hall.

Facebook event here.