Vivek Narayanan, Katia Kapovich
FULCRUM Poetry Reading
Tuesday, June 10, 7 p.m.
Pierre Menard Gallery
10 Arrow Street (up Arrow Street from Cafe Pamplona)
Cambridge MA (Harvard Square T Stop)
FREE + FREE WINE
Vivek Narayanan, a brilliant English-language poet, lives in Chennail, India. He grew up in Southern Africa and spent a few years in the US. His poems have appeared in Harvard Review, Fulcrum, Rattapallax and many other magazines, and are anthologized in Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets (Penguin India 2002) and in Give the Sea Change and It Will Change: the Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poetry (forthcoming from Bloodaxe and Fulcrum this fall). His latest collection of poems is Universal Beach (Harbour Line, Mumbai, India).
Katia Kapovich is a bilingual poet writing in English and Russian. She used to be a dissident in my youth, emigrated from the USSR in 1990, and currently lives in Cambridge, Mass. She co-edits Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics. Her work is well known and widely published in her two languages. She is author of seven books of Russian verse and of two English language collections, Gogol in Rome, and Cossacks and Bandits, both published by Salt in the UK.
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