Jason Koo, Adam Robinson, Matvei Yankelevich

Jason Koo’s first collection of poems, Man on Extremely Small Island, won the 2008 De Novo Poetry Prize, and was published in 2009 by C&R Press. The recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, he has had his poems appear in numerous journals, including The Yale Review, North American Review, Verse, Bellingham Review, Cimarron Review, Green Mountains Review, and Gulf Coast. He serves as Poetry Editor of Low Rent and is a visiting assistant professor of English at Davidson College
Adam Robinson’s first book Adam Robison and Other Poems is now available for pre-order from Narrow House. He has published his poetry and prose in numerous journals, including The Missouri Review, North American Review, and The Yale Review. He currently lives in New York, where he teaches at NYU and Lehman College and serves as Editor of Publishing Genius.

Matvei Yankelevich’s first book Boris by the Sea is just out from Octopus Books. He’s also published several chapbooks including The Present Work (Palm Press). 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.