The Russian Avant-Garde Colloquium

Poets House and the Jordan Center for Advanced Study of Russia present:
The Russian Avant-Garde Goes Underground: A Colloquium with Anthony Anemone, Polina Barskova, Ainsley Morse, Eugene Ostashevsky, Peter Scotto, Bela Shayevich, and Matvei Yankelevich.
Celebrating the release of Alexander Vvedensky’s An Invitation for Me to Think (NYRB Poets) and “I am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary”: The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharms (Academic Studies Press).

$10, $7 students / seniors

Reading to follow event at 4:30 PM

Event info
Vvedensky poems
Kharms’ book

Matvei Yankelevich‘s most recent books are the poetry collection Alpha Donut (United ArtistsBooks) and the novella-in-fragments Boris by the Sea (Octopus Books). His translations of Daniil Kharms, collected in Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Ardis/Overlook), have garnered praise in the TLS, the Guardian, the New York Times, and elsewhere. Matvei has taught at Hunter College, Columbia University School of the Arts (Writing Division), and Colorado College. Since 2009, he has been a member of the Writing faculty in the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. In the late 1990s, Matvei helped found Ugly Duckling Press. He lives in Brooklyn.
Sponsors: Russian and East European Institute, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Comparative Literature, Institute for Advanced Study, Foster International Living Learning Center, Global Village.