[New York]

Eugene Ostashevsky. Poetry reading and conversation on translingualism in Russian and American poetry (with Yasha Klots)
September 12, 2018, 7:30 pm
at Hunter East Building

Eugene Ostashevsky is a scholar, translator and award-winning Russian-American poet who writes in English while engaging his native Russian and other languages in a creative dialogue. Characterized by multilingual punning, humor puerile and set-theoretical, philosophical irony and narrative handicaps, Ostashevsky's writing is an allegory of emigration, incomprehension, untranslatability, and the otherness of others. He will read from his latest language-mixing work, as well as from his poetry-novel The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi (NYRB, 2016) and talk about what kinds of meanings can arise when multiple languages meet on the same page, in what ways they interfere with each other, and how cultures interact through multilingualism and code-switching. If you are not a CUNY student or employee, please RSVP on our website (www.reechunter.com) or by sending an email to reechunter@gmail.com, and we will put your name on our guest list. Please have a photo ID to get a pass to the building. From the entrance to Hunter West, where you get the pass, take the escalator to Floor 3, then walk to the Hunter East Building across the sky bridge, and take the elevator to Floor 7 (library) for Room 706.   Fore more info please check here. And to see a list of Eugene Ostashevsky's books.