A reading and Q&A with Eugene Ostashevsky, Ekaterina Derysheva, and Ian Ross Singleton. Monday, April 21, 6:30 pm. Elizabeth Hemmerdinger Center (706 Hunter East). Free and open to the public. RSVP required.
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). Her poems have been translated into 11 languages. She has received fellowships from Villa Concordia, LCB, Next Page Foundation, Artist Protection Fund Fellowship in residence at University of Pennsylvania.
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 Differences, about the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity, came out in 2021 from MGraphics Press. He is currently undertaking a translation of The Shipbuilder by Yuri Yanovsky for the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
Eugene Ostashevsky is a poet and translator. His books of poetry include 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.
Directions: At the reception desk of the Hunter West Building, please present your ID to get a pass. From there, take the escalator to the 3rd floor, turn right and walk across the sky bridge to the Hunter East Building, then take the elevator to the 7th floor. Hemmerdinger Center is at the end of the hallway past the turnstiles.