2015: YOUR LANGUAGE - MY EAR: Russian and American Poets at Close Quarters, February 26 - 28, 2015

 
The Twelveth Annual Spring Symposium
 
Your Language—My Ear: Russian and American Poets at Close Quarters is an intense workshop on poetic translation that is taking place at the University of Pennsylvania from February 26-28, with support of University’s Kelly Writers House, Slavic Department, Program in Comparative Literature and a Cross-Cultural Conference Grant sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
 
Public Bilingual Poetry Readings
 
Friday, February 27, 4 pm - 5:30 pm
Discussion and reception to follow
Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust WalkPhiladelphia, PA 19104
 
Saturday, February 28, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmChapterhouse Cafe, 620 S. 9th StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19147
 
Public Panels on Topics in Poetry and Translation
 
Friday, February 27, 1:30 pm - 3:30 pmMax Kade Center, 3401 Walnut St, rm. 329APhiladelphia, PA 19104
 
• Michael Wachtel (Princeton), “Mutilating DeadPoets: Robert Lowell’s Translations from theRussian”
• Matvei Yankelevich (Ugly Duckling Presse),“Pseudotranslation” in Contemporary AmericanPoetry”
• Ilya Vinitsky (UPenn), “For the Few: Translationas Initiation”
• Alexandra Petrova (Rome), “Divertissment at theCrossroads”
 
Saturday, February 28, 1:30 pm - 3:45 pmSingh Center for Nanotechnology3205 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104
 
• Stephanie Sandler (Harvard), “Retranslating:Skidan, Palmer, Bernstein”
• Shamshad Abdullaev (Fergana, Uzbekistan), “OnePoem by Samuel Beckett” (In Russian)
• Alexander Skidan (St. Petersburg), “Translationand My Poetic Practice” (in Russian)
• Kevin M. F. Platt (UPenn), “Translation,Cosmopolitanism and War in Riga”
 
Featured Russian language poets, from across the geography of the Russian-speaking world:
Shamshad Abdullaev (Fergana, Uzbekistan), Polina Barskova (Massachusetts, USA), Keti Chukhrov (Moscow), Alexandra Petrova (Rome), Alexander Skidan (St. Petersburg)
 
Other participants include poets/scholars/translators:
Marijeta Bozovic (Yale University), Charles Bernstein (UPenn) Julia Bloch (UPenn), Catherine Ciepiela (Amherst College), Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach (UPenn), Sibelan Forrester (Swarthmore), David Hock (Princeton), James McGavran (UPenn), Kevin M. F. Platt (UPenn), Bob Perelman (UPenn), Ariel Resnikoff (UPenn), Stephanie Sandler (Harvard), Bela Shayevich (Philadelphia), Frank Sherlock (Philadelphia), Alexandra Tatarsky (Philadelphia, New York), Val Vinokur (The New School), Michael Wachtel (Princeton), Ilya Vinitsky (Upenn), and Matvei Yankelevich (Ugly Duckling Presse)