Events

Dmitry Manin is a physicist, programmer, and poetry translator. His translations from English and French into Russian have appeared in several book collections. His latest work is a complete translation of Ted Hughes’ Crow (Jaromír Hladík press, 2020) and Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Podpisnie Izdaniya, 2021). Dmitri’s Russian-to-English translations have been published in journals (Cardinal Points, Delos, The Café Review, Metamorphoses etc) and in Maria Stepanova’s The Voice Over (CUP, 2021). In 2017 his translation of a poem by Stepanova won the Compass Award competition.

Dr. Ian Probstein, full professor of English at Touro College, is a bilingual Russian-American poet, scholar, and translator of poetry. He has published two books of literary criticism, twelve books of poetry in Russian, one in English, translated more than a dozen poetry volumes; and has compiled and edited more than thirty books and anthologies of poetry in translation and about 500 publications. His essays, poems in English and translations of poetry into English have been published in Atlanta Review, The International Literary Quarterly, Brooklyn Rail: In Translation, Jacket-2, Four Centuries of Russian Poetry in Translation, Ugly Duckling Presse, and elsewhere. His most recent book in English is The River of Time: Time-Space, Language and History in Avant-Garde, Modernist, and Contemporary Poetry (Academic Studies Press, 2017).

Mark Wingrave was born in the UK and now lives in Melbourne, Australia. He makes text-based paintings and artist’s books. He is interested in the interplay between translation and ekphrasis. Mark has exhibited internationally and many of his recent exhibitions are dedicated to the visualisation and translation of Russian literature. In particular, he has worked with texts from Elena Shvarts, Nikolai Gogol, and Evgenia Rits. He received an MA from Chelsea School of Art, and a Scholarship in Painting at the British School at Rome.  His translations from Russian to English have appeared in Circumference, Articulation, Russian Free Verse, and Soanyway (collaboration with Gala Uzryutova). Future projects include residencies at Petrozavodsk (Karelian Art Residence) and Ulyanovsk (Unesco Literary Residency).

Great Weather for Media and David Lawton are hosting a reading to celebrate National Translation Month at the Spoken Word Sundays Series.

SEPTEMBER 27-29, 2021—McNally Jackson Seaport
Acrobat Nandana Dev Sen at a bookends event hosted by McNally Jackson Seaport and the Brooklyn Book Festival with Meghan O’Rourke and Anselm Berrigan. Registration information to come. In partnership with Archipelago Books. More details TK.