[Philadelphia]

Poetry Reading: Aleksandr Skidan
October 13, 2016, 6:00 pm
at Kelly Writers House

Alexandr Skidan, Russian-born poet, critic, essayist, and translator, will read at the Writers House as part of the ongoing Writers Without Borders series. Hosted by Kevin Platt, of Penn’s Slavic Languages and Literatures Department, Skidan will read from his award-winning poetry, including his most recent book Dissolution. Co-sponsored by the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Aleksandr Skidan, a poet, critic, essayist and translator, was born in Leningrad in 1965. His poetry collections include Delirium (1993), In the Re-Reading (1998), Red Shifting (2005) and most recently Dissolution (2010). He is also the author of three books of essays: Critical Mass (1995), The Resistance to/of Poetry (2001), Sum of Poetics (2013) and Theses Toward Politicization of Art (2014). He has translated contemporary American poetry and fiction into Russiаn, as well as theoretical works. More info here.