Born in St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Marina Temkina has lived in New York since 1979. She came to the U.S. with the Third Wave, an exodus of artists, writers, academics, and intellectuals from the former Soviet Union. In New York, she became a poet-artist whose multi-genre work embodies her immigrant experiences. Her books include the poetry collection What Do You Want? (UDP), the artists book Who Is I? (Content), in collaboration with artist Michel Gerard, and several books of poetry in Russian. Temkina has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture among others. In her work as a psychotherapist, she specializes in refugee resettlement, cultural differences, and gender and identity. Please join us for a reading by Marina Temkina and a conversation with the author about her years as an immigrant in New York of the 1970-1980s.
Marina Temkina. Poems and Experiences—Immigrant, Gender, and Russian-Jewish
