http://www.loc.gov/poetry/avfiles/kapovich.ram

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A Russian poet and former literary dissident now living in the
Cambridge, MA, Ms. Kapovich received a Witter Bynner fellowship from the
Library of Congress in 2001. She writes in English as well as in Russian
and co-edits the English-language poetry magazine, Fulcrum. Her poems
have appeared in the London Review of Books, Ploughshares, Harvard
Review, and many other literary journals. The collections of her work in
Russian include a novel in verse, Suflior (The Prompter), published in
1998. Richard McKane's translations of her Russian poems have appeared
in his anthologies, Poet for Poet (Hearing Eye, 1998) and Surviving the
Twentieth Century: Ten Russian Poets (Anvil, 2001).