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eastern european poets series

EEPS focuses on work of Eastern European poets of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The series has the following three priorities for publishing:
1. English translations of contemporary Eastern European poets
2. Emigré authors from Eastern Europe writing in English
3. Influential Eastern European poets of the past whose work
has not been widely available in English

Series Editor: Matvei Yankelevich
Associate Editor: Genya Turovskaya

For submissions guidelines, please visit our SUBMISSIONS page.

> Read an ongoing essay on Russian-American poets by Matvei Yankelevich in Octopus magazine.

> EEPS also organizes the BALAKLAVA reading series to publically present new work by Eastern European poets and translations from Eastern European languages. Fore more information about BALAKLAVA click here.

EEPS books include:
#0 The Gray Notebook by Alexander Vvedensky (tr. M. Yankelevich)
#1 Attention and Man by Ilya Bernstein
#2 Calendar by Genya Turovskaya
#3 Poker by Tomaz Salamun (tr. Joshua Beckman, with the author)
#4 Fifty Drops of Blood by Dmitri Prigov (tr. Christopher Mattison)
#5 Catalogue of Comedic Novelties by Lev Rubinstein (tr. Phil Metres)
#6 The Blue Notebook by Daniil Kharms (tr. M. Yankelevich)
#7 Sun on a Knee by Tone Skrjanec (tr. Joshua Beckman)

#8 Less Than a Meter by Mikhail Aizenberg (tr. Jim Kates)
#9 Chinese Sun by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (tr. Evgeny Pavlov)
#10 Iterature by Eugene Ostashevsky
#11 Song of Igor's Camapign by Anonymous, tr. Bill Johnston
#12 Do Not Awaken Them With Hammers by Lidija Dimkovska (tr. Llubica Arsovka & Peggy Reid)
#14 Paper Children by Mariana Marin (tr. Adam Sorkin)
#15 The Drug of Art by Ivan Blatny (ed. Veronika Tuckerova; tr. Matthew Sweney, JUstin Quinn, Alex Zucker, Veronika Tuckerova & Anna Moschovakis; foreword by Joseph Skvorecky)
#16 Red Shifting by Alexander Skidan (tr. Genya Turovskaya; intro. by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko)
#17 As It Turned Out by Dmitry Golynko (tr. Eugene Ostashevsky and Rebecca Bella; ed. & intro. by Eugene Ostashevsky)
#18 The Russian Version by Elena Fanailova (tr. Stephanie Sandler & Genya Turovskaya)
#19 Dreaming Escape by Valentina Saracini (tr. Erica Weitzman)
#20 Poker (2nd Edition) by Tomaz SAlamun (tr. Joshua Beckman, with the author; intro. by Matthew Rohrer)
#21 Sun on a Knee (2nd Edition) by Tone Skrjanec (tr. Joshua Beckman)
#22 [A Slovene Sampler]
#23 The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza by Eugene Ostashevsky
#24 What Do You Want? by Marina Temkina
#25 ... tba ...
#26 [The Selected Poems of Srecko Kosovel] (tr. Barbara Carlson & Ana Jelnikar)

Please see the Online Store for availability of these titles.

EEPS LINKS

> Listen to Dmitri Alexandrovich Prigov
> Read some of Lev Rubinstein's poems in CrossXconnect
> Read a project by Genya Turovskaya, "Five Winters in Vladivostok" on ArtWurl
> Read Daniil Kharms in Octopus Magazine

 

 
Lidija Dimkovska

Lev Rubinstein

Eugene Ostashevsky
Kharms & Vvedensky

 

 

 

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SUPPORT
UDP is grateful for the support of its subscribers, donors, Materials for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, CLMP, the Merrill Family Charitable Trust, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

We would like to extend special thanks to the Fund for Poetry for its generous unsolicited gifts, and to CLMP for its many forms of support.


 




GIVING
UDP donates books to the following programs that supply books to prisoners:

Books Through Bars NYC

c/o ABC No Rio
Prison Book Program
c/o Lucy Parsons Bookstore, Quincy, MA
Prison Book Project
c/o Food For Thought Books, Amherst, MA
Books to Oregon Prisoners Portland, OR
UC Books to Prisoners
c/o Spineless Books, Urbana, IL
Wisconsin Books to Prisoners Project
c/o Madison Infoshop, Madison, WI


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