Phoenix Reading Series @ The Upright Brew Sunday, March 16, 2014 4-6 pm 547 Hudson Street NY, NY 10014 212-810-9944 VLADIMIR DRUK, KAROL NIELSON, ANTON YAKOVLEV & OPEN READING Vladimir Druk is a Russian-born poet, one of the founding members of the Moscow Poetry Club during the waning days of the Soviet Union. He is considered one of the leaders of the new wave of avant-garde Russian literature, and is highly regarded for his experimental verse, echoing the work of the early Futurists of Russia, a poetry, which digs into the roots of language in an effort to untangle meaning beyond language. His collections include The Drawn Apple (Moscow, 1990), The Switchboard (Moscow, 1991), Disposable Birds (Moscow, 2009), The Second Apple (NY, 2000) and Days Are Getting Longer (NY, 2013) His work has appeared in literary journals and leading poetry anthologies such as Crossing Century: The New Russian Poetry and Third Wave, and has been translated into over 15 languages. He received First Prizes in the Russian America (2001) and diploma in Moscow Account (2009) poetry competitions. Karol Nielsen is the author of the memoir, Black Elephants (Bison Books, 2011), selected as a New and Noteworthy Book by Poets & Writers and shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing by the Stanford University Libraries in 2012. Excerpts from her memoir were honored as Notable Essays in The Best American Essays (Houghton Mifflin) in 2010 and 2005. Her poetry collection, This Woman I Thought I’d Be (Finishing Line Press, 2012), includes poems from her full collection, selected as a finalist for the Colorado Prize for Poetry in 2007. Her nonfiction and poetry have appeared in The Moment (Harper Perennial, 2012), an anthology edited by Smith Magazine, and many publications. Anton Yakovlev grew up in Moscow, Russia, but moved to the United States in 1996. He studied Filmmaking and English at Harvard University. He currently lives in Ridgewood, NJ and works as a college textbook editor. His poetry has appeared in The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow and The Harvard Advocate. Michael Graves is the author of Adam and Cain (Black Buzzard, 2006), In Fragility (Black Buzzard, 2011) and two chapbooks, Illegal Border Crosser (Cervana Barva, 2008) and Outside St. Jude’s (R. E. M. Press, 1990). In two thousand four (2004), he received a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. Thirteen (13) of his poems appear in the James Joyce Quarterly. He has published scholarly-critical work on James Wright and organized a conference on Mr. Wright at Poets House in 2004. An eight dollar ($8) cover buys a drink or pays part of a more expensive purchase. youtube/watch?v=HjGZeKfSW8g.... .
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