IRINA MASHINSKI ('08) AN EVENING OF POETRY AND TRANSLATION
Poetry Reading and the Compass Translation Award: presentation and discussion. In English
WHEN: September 29, Thursday, 8 pm
WHERE: KIVA room (Main Library, 3d Floor)
Hampshire College, MA
map: http://www.hampshire.edu/vtour/
Irina Mashinski is a bilingual poet and translator. She has authored seven books of poetry in Russian, and her most recent collections are Volk [Wolf] (Moscow: NLO, 2009) and Raznochinets pervyi sneg i drugie stikhotvoreniia [Raznochinets First Snow and Other Poems] (New York: Stosvet Press, 2009). Her work has appeared in a variety of literary journals and anthologies, including Poetry International, Fulcrum, Zeek, The London Magazine, and An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005). She is the co-editor (with Robert Chandler) of the forthcoming Anthology of Russian Poetry from Pushkin to Brodsky (Penguin, 2014), as well as co-founder (with Oleg Woolf) and co-editor (with Robert Chandler and Oleg Woolf) of the Cardinal Points literary journal, published in the U.S. in English and Russian. Irina Mashinski is the winner of several literary awards, including the Russian America (2001) and Maximilian Voloshin (2003) Awards. Her poetry has been translated into English, French, Italian,Spanish, and Serbian.
Irina Mashinski holds a Ph.D. in Physical Geography and Paleoclimatology from Lomonosov Moscow State University and an M.F.A. in Poetry and Poetics from New England College. In the US, she has taught Mathematics, Science, Meteorology, Russian History, and The History of European Culture in high schools and universities.
Web-sites:
Ms.Mashinski:
http://www.stosvet.net/union/Mash/ - poetry
http://www.stosvet.net/union/mashinski/ - essays
Compass Translation Award:
http://www.stosvet.net/compass/index.html
Cardinal Points Literary Journal:
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