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TITLE: Interview with Katia Kapovich
SPEAKER: Katia Kapovich
EVENT DATE: 04/03/2002
RUNNING TIME: 58 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
A Russian poet and former literary dissident now living in the Cambridge, MA, Ms. Kapovich was selected in 2001 by Poet Laureate Billy Collins to receive a Witter Bynner fellowship. She writes in English as well as in Russian and co-edits the English-language poetry magazine, Fulcrum. Her poems have appeared in the London Review of Books, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and in many other literary journals.
Speaker Biography: A Russian poet and former literary dissident now living in Cambridge, Mass., Katia Kapovich was selected in 2001 by Poet Laureate Billy Collins to receive a Witter Bynner fellowship. She writes in English, as well as in Russian, and co-edits the English-language poetry magazine, Fulcrum. Her poems have appeared in the London Review of Books, Ploughshares, Harvard Review and in many other literary journals. The collections of her work in Russian include a novel in verse, "Suflior (The Prompter)," published in 1998. Richard McKane's translations of her Russian poems have appeared in his anthologies, "Poet for Poet" and "Surviving the Twentieth Century: Ten Russian Poets."
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