Dahn, Lee, Leonido, Lombardo, Yankelevich

The Moles Not Molar Reading & Performance Series
Sets Your Tympanic Membrane Astir!

on Friday, April 16th
7:30PM
@ Wooden Shoe Books
704 South Street (at South and 7th St)

Featuring
MATVEI YANKELEVICH (Poet; New York City)
SUEYEUN JULIETTE LEE (Poet; Philadelphia)
TRISTAN DAHN & TIMOTHY LEONIDO (Musicians; Philadelphia)
GIAN LOMBARDO (Poet; Massachusetts)

MATVEI YANKELVICH is the author of Boris by the Sea (Octopus Books) and several chapbooks including *The Present Work* (Palm Press). His writing has appeared in Action Yes!, Boston Review, Damn the Caesars, Fence, Open City, Tantalum, Typo, Zen Monster, and other little magazines. His translations from Russian have cropped up in Calque, Circumference, Harpers, New American Writing, Poetry, and The New Yorker and in some anthologies including OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism (Northwestern) and Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky (FSG).  His translations of Daniil Kharms were collected in Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Ardis/Overlook) and received praise from the TLS, The Guardian, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He recently edited a portfolio of Contemporary Russian Poetry and Poetics for the magazine Aufgabe (No. 8, Fall 2009). In NYC, he teaches at Hunter College and Columbia University School of the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn where he edits and designs books for Ugly Duckling Presse.

SUEYEUN JULIETTE LEE is a poet, scholar, and editor. Currently, Juliette lives in Philadelphia where she edits Corollary Press (www.corollarypress.org), a chapbook series devoted to new work by writers of color. Her publications include That Gorgeous Feeling (Coconut Press) and Underground National (Factory School). Her research investigates the relationship between aesthetics and geography in Asian American experimental writing.

TIMOTHY LEONIDO and TRISTAN DAHN are musicians living in Philadelphia, currently working as a live duo, exploring the common ground between the fluidity of free improvisation and rhythms fixed by digital sequencing.
www.myspace.com/tristandahn
www.foxedandgrimed.wordpress.com

GIAN LOMBARDO is Publisher-in-Residence in the Writing, Literature & Publishing Department at Emerson College. Gian also directs Quale Press. He is the author of Between Islands, a collection of poems and verse translations; and four other collections of prose poetry – Standing Room, Sky Open Again, Of All the Corners to Forget and Aid & A_Bet. His translation of the first half of Aloysius Bertrand’s Gaspard de la nuit was published in 2000 and his translation of Eugene Savitzkaya’s Rules of Solitude appeared in 2004. He lives in Western Massachusetts where he tends a small orchard and occasionally makes a passable wine.