Event Participation

Dmitry Golynko
Reading from his poetry
with Eugene Ostashevsky
in both Russian and English

October 22, 7- 8 p.m.

Max Kade Center, 3401 Walnut St., Room 329A
(above Starbucks)

Mr. Golynko will be joined by Eugene Ostashevsky, poet and translator, who will read from his translations of Golynko into English, recently published in a volume by Ugly Duckling Presse. Ostashevsky teaches at NYU and has published a number of books of poetry, chapbooks and books of translations, including Oberiu: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism (Northwestern University Press, 2006)

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November 10 - lunchtime reading/conversation with Charles Bernstein and Russian poet Dmitrii Golynko, to be taped for rebroadcast and web-streaming through PennSound.

Time and location to be announced.

Some of Mr. Golynko's texts can be found HERE

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Biography

Dmitry Golynko, born in 1969 in Leningrad, is a poet, literary and art critic, and a scholar of history and cultural theory. He holds advanced degrees in Russian Language and Literature as well as in Art History from one of St. Petersburg’s premier universities, the State Pedagogical University. In 2004-2005, he served as a visiting professor in the Slavic Department at Cheongju University in South Korea, and, in the winter of 2005, as a writer-in-residence at the Literarischer Coloqium in Berlin, Germany. He currently works as a researcher at the Russian Institute of Art History in Saint Petersburg and is a member of the editorial board for the Moscow Art Magazine. He continues to live in Saint Petersburg. Golynko is the author of three books of poetry, Homo Scribens (1994), Directory (2001), and Concrete Doves (2003) and numerous critical essays on contemporary art and literature published in Russia’s leading journals. His poems and essays have been translated and published in English, German, French, Finnish, Swedish, and Italian..