Ian Ross Singleton and Eugene Ostashevsky will read translations of Ukrainian modernists connected to Kharkiv: Mykhail Semenko, the founder of Ukrainian Futurism; Yurii Yanovsky, the author of "The Shipwright" (Майстер корабля), а 1920s novel about the Ukrainian film industry; and Maik Iohansen, modernist poet and fiction writer. They will be joined by the Kharkiv poet Ekaterina Derysheva, currently at U Penn, who will share her own work.
Ekaterina Derysheva is a displaced poet from Kharkiv, born in 1994 in Melitopol, Ukraine. Her poems have been published in journals such as Poem-a-Day series, Asymptote, Buenos Aires Poetry, Plume, Zerkalo, Tlen Literacki, Literaturportal Bayern, Wizje, Volga, and others. She is the author of the books "Starting Point" (2018) and "There Will Be No Installation" (2023), and co-author of the book "Earth Time" (Romania, 2020).
Ian Ross Singleton is a writer and translator from the Russian and Ukrainian languages. He teaches Writing and Critical Inquiry at SUNY Albany and is Nonfiction Editor of Asymptote. His debut novel "Two Big Differencess", about the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity, came out in 2021 from MGraphics Press.
Eugene Ostashevsky is a poet and translator. His books of poetry includes "The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi", and "The Feeling Sonnets" (both published by NYRB Poets). He will be reading his translations of the Ukrainian Futurist Mykhail Semenko.