[New York]

Little Star Journal with writers Eugene Ostashevsky, April Bernard, and Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.
May 8, 2012, 6:00 pm
at New York Public Library, Periodicals Room

Reading and discussion for the NYPL/CLMP “Periodically Speaking” series. A Longer view: Reading across time and space Contemporary writing is by its nature grounded in the present, but Little Star is a young journal that tries especially to read new writing within the third and fourth dimensions, across languages and generations. How is the challenge of literary modernism, and its deep roots in our many traditions, taking hold in the present, throughout the world? On Tuesday May 8 editor Ann Kjellberg talks with three writers who have taken this question on in different ways in the pages of Little Star. Eugene Ostashevsky is a poet and a translator of the Russian absurdist circle, the Uberiu poets of the 1930s Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., is a poet and a translator of the classical and modern Arabic April Bernard is a critic and novelist, author most recently of Miss Fuller, a fictionalized account of the life and death of American transcendentalist Margaret Fuller