[Brooklyn, NY]

Genya Turovskaya, Matvei Yankelevich, Taryn Andrews, Mark Leidner
November 11, 2011, 8:00 pm
at La Sala

An unprecedented stroke of talent and timing allows us to gather these four writers and celebrate these new releases: Genya Turovskaya - Dear Jenny (Supermachine) Matvei Yankelevich - Bending At The Elbow (Minutes Books) Taryn Andrews - Clouds Can Trees (Minutes Books) Mark Leidner - Beauty Was The Case That They Gave Me (Factory Hollow) Come out for a beautiful night of poetry and celebration.   Matvei Yankelevich‘s books and chapbooks include Boris by the Sea (Octopus Books), The Present Work (Palm Press), and Writing in the Margin (Loudmouth Collective). His writing has appeared in Action Yes!, Boston Review, Damn the Caesars, Fence, Open City, Tantalum, Typo, Zen Monster, and other little magazines. His translations from Russian have cropped up in Calque, Circumference, Harpers, New American Writing, Poetry, and the New Yorker and in some anthologies, including OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism(Northwestern) and Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky (FSG).  He teaches at Hunter College, Columbia University School of the Arts (Writing Division), and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.   Genya Turovskaya is the author of Calendar (UDP 2002), and The Tides (Octopus Books 2007). Her poetry and translations of contemporary Russian poets have appeared in Chicago Review, Conjunctions, A Public Space, Octopus,jubilat, and other publications. Her translation of Aleksandr Skidan’s Red Shifting was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2008. She has been the recipient of various awards and fellowships. She holds an MFA from Bard College and lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she is the Associate Editor of the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse.