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Contact: Jamol Lettman at (860) 796-9722 or jamol.lettman@uconn.edu
Writers Who Edit, Editors Who Write Event: Poet and Translator Matvei Yankelevich
The University of Connecticut’s Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce that on Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 6:00 p.m.Matvei Yankelevich will give a reading and talk as part of the Writers Who Edit, Editors Who Write series at the Uconn Co-op, Storrs Center. Yankelevich will discuss the challenges of balancing creative writing and editorial work. Audience members are invited to ask questions about making a life as a writer or editor.
Yankelevich has taught courses on translation, artists books, little magazines, and Russian poetry at Columbia University School of the Arts, a course in DIY/small publishing at Colorado College, and Russian literature at Hunter College. He currently teaches at Queens College CUNY, is a visiting lecturer at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and serves as a member of the Writing Faculty at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.
Brooklyn resident Yankelevich is a co-founder of, and designer and editor for Ugly Duckling Presse. Since 2002 he has curated the Eastern European Poets Series, and is the co-editor of 6x6 magazine.Yankelevich is known for his books Alpha Donut, Bois by the Sea, Small Worlds for Dr. Vogt. He received widespread praise from the TLS, The Guardian, and The New York Times for his Russian to English translation of Today I Wrote Nothing: Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms.
The Creative Writing Program aims to introduce and engage both undergraduate and graduate students in various writing courses including fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, drama, screenwriting, and more. These courses are offered to students of all majors in order to engage and include all that are interested in joining this growing creative writing community at the University of Connecticut.
The reading, co-sponsored by the UConn Creative Writing Program and the UConn Co-Op, is free and open to the public. The UConn Co-op is located at One Royce Circle, 101 Storrs Center, and can be contacted at 860-486-8525. For more information, please visit the Creative Writing Program’s website at www.creativewriting.uconn.edu.
For more information, contact: Jamol Lettman at jamollettman@gmail.com