Eugene Ostashevsky, Anselm Berrigan, and Sasha Fletcher

Eugene Ostashevsky is a Russian-born American poet and translator. His two-and-some-odd books poetry include Infinite Recursor or the Bride of DJ Spinoza, UDP 2005; Iterature, UDP 2005; Enter Morris Imposternak, Pursued by Ironies, UDP 2008; The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza, UDP 2008. He also edited and co-translated OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism, containing the writings of 1930s poets and philosophers like Alexander Vvedensky and Daniil Kharms. Look for videos of his work on YouTube and for recordings here.

Anselm Berrigan is a poet and the author of five books, the most recent being Free Cell, published by City Lights in 2009. A book-length poem, Notes from Irrelevance, will be published by Wave Books this fall. With his mother and brother he co-edited the just published Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan (U.Cal). He is the poetry editor for The Brooklyn Rail, holds too many part-time teaching jobs, and lives in New York City, where he grew up (and down).

Sasha Fletcher is the author of the novella WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED MARCHING BANDS WILL FILL THE STREETS AND WE WILL NOT HEAR THEM BECAUSE WE WILL BE UPSTAIRS IN THE CLOUDS. He is an MFA candidate in Poetry at Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn.