This week we welcome Alex Cigale as our guest author. Alex’s own poems in English appear in Colorado Review, The Common Online, and The Literary Review, and his translations of Silver Age and contemporary Russian poetry in Kenyon Review Online, PEN America, TriQuarterly and World Literature in Translation. In 2015, he was awarded an NEA in Literary Translation Fellowship for his work on the St. Petersburg philological school, poet Mikhail Eremin, and guest edited the Spring 2015 Russia Issue of the Atlanta Review, blogging about it in Best American Poetry for the week of July 13-17, 2015. His first full book,RussianAbsurd: Daniil Kharms, Selected Writings, is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press World Classics series in February 2017 and is now available for pre-sale.
Welcome, Alex.
-- sdl
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