Arkadii Dragomoshchenko & Dorothea Lasky

Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Chinese Sun, 2005) and Dorothea Lasky (Poetry Is Not A Project, 2010) will be the featured readers at the Segue Reading Series.Arkadii Dragomoshchenko was born in Potsdam, Germany in 1946 and grew up in Vinnitsa, Ukraine. He has lived and worked in St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad), Russia since 1969. He is the author of Description, and Xenia, translated by Lyn Hejinian and published by Sun & Moon Press in the 1990s. Dust (collected prose in English translation) is forthcoming from Dalkey Archive Press in 2005. C.D. Wright has said of Dragomoshchenko’s work: “This is poetry. Immodest. Magisterial. More or less impenetrable. The relation of language is potential but not improvisational. The vocabulary for this is happily idiosyncratic…” Dorothea Lasky is the author of two full-length collections of poetry: AWE (Wave Books, 2007) and Black Life (Wave Books, 2010). Born in St. Louis in 1978, her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the Laurel Review, Crowd, 6×6, the Boston Review, Delmar, Phoebe, Filter, Knock, Drill, Lungfull!, and Octopus, among others. She is a graduate of the MFA program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and also has been educated at Harvard University and Washington University. Currently, she lives in New York City and researches creativity and education at the University of Pennsylvania.