[Annandale-On-Hudson, NY]

Reading at Bard by Genya Turovskaya and John Yau
November 18, 2019, 6:30 pm
at Bard College, Campus Center, Weis Cinema

Genya Turovskaya is a past UDP editor and author of UDP book Calendar and co-translator of Elena Fanailova’s The Russian Version (which won the University of Rochester’s Three Percent award for Best Translated Book of Poetry) and translated Alkesandr Skidan’s Red Shifting. She was born in Kiev, Ukraine, and grew up in New York City. She is also the author of The Breathing Body of This Thought (Black Square Editions) as well as numerous chapbooks. Her poetry and translations of contemporary Russian poets have appeared in A Public Space, Asymptote, Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Fence, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Octopus, PEN Poetry, Sangam Poetry, Seedings, The Elephants, and other publications. She is also a co-translator of Arkadii Dragomoschchenko’s Endarkenment: Selected Poems (Wesleyan). She holds and MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She lives in New York City where she is a practicing psychotherapist.

John Yau is a poet, fiction writer, art critic, publisher of Black Square Editions, and freelance curator. He studied with Robert Kelly while at Bard and earned an MFA from Brooklyn College, where he studied with John Ashbery. Yau has received numerous awards including the Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the 2018 Jackson Poetry Prize, the American Poetry Review Jerome Shestack Award, and a 1988 Foundation For the Arts Award. Yau has published over fifty books of poetry, fiction, and criticism, including his most recent collection, Bijoux in the Dark (2018). He is on faculty at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.