Matvei Yankelevich

A CELEBRATION OF NEW BOOKS BY FOUR POETS
John Coletti [brooklyn]
Cathy Eisenhower [dc]
Jay MillAr [toronto]
Matvei Yankelevich [brooklyn]

John Coletti is the author of Physical Kind (Yo-Yo-Labs 2005), Same Enemy Rainbow (fewer & further 2008), and the freshly published Mum Halo (Rust Buckle Books 2010). He recently finished serving as editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter.

Cathy Eisenhower is the author of Language of the Dog-head [chapbook](Phylum Press 2001), clearing without reversal (Edge 2008), and would with and (Roof 2009). Her poems are forthcoming inAufgabe and West Wind Review.

Jay MillAr lives in Toronto where he runs BookThug and Apollinaire’s Bookshoppe. He is the author of several books of poetry, including False Maps for Other Creatures (Nightwood Editions 2005), the small blue(Snare Books 2007), and most recently esp: accumulation sonnets (BookThug 2009). A forthcoming collection titled Other Poems is expected this spring from Nightwood Editions.

Matvei Yankelevich’s first feature-length book is Boris by the Sea (Octopus Books, 2009). He is also the translator of Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook/Ardis 2009) and the author of some chapbooks, including The Present Work (Palm Press 2006). He is an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse.

You are invited to stay for a festive reception before and after the reading.
Free and open to all discerning publics.