5 Poets Whose Parents Were Seagulls

Featuring:

ROMAN BILEVICH: I was asked to submit a bio and realized that I couldn't be less interested in promoting myself. I have some words and ideas to share; and if you walk
away considering my ideas, while forgetting me, that would be wonderful ...

Once a longtime native of New York City, LILA DLABOHA now lives in the Hudson River Valley region and is glad not to be knee deep in sidewalk any longer. Her poems have appeared in Andre Codrescu’s Exquisite Corpse, Tangerine, La Carta de Oliver (Buenos Aires), the Little Magazine, Nexus, Lungfull, among other publications.  During the 1980s she served on the editorial board of the Little Magazine, a nationally distributed literary quarterly. ...

OLENA JENNINGS’s collection of poetry Songs from an Apartment was released in January by Underground Books.  Her translations of poetry from Ukrainian can be found in Chelsea, Poetry International, and Wolf.  She has published fiction in Joyland, Pioneertown, and Projecttile. She completed her MFA in writing at Columbia and her MA focusing in Ukrainian literature at the University of Alberta. ...

STASH LUCZKIW is a poet, novelist, translator and journalist. He works as the editor of Longitude, an English-language magazine of international affairs published in Rome, Italy. His most recent book of poems is Selah, and he has also co-written the book Captured by History: the True Story of a Combat Photographer’s Abduction, due out in October 2017. Born in New York City, he now lives in Italy. ...

VIRLANA TKACZ heads the Yara Arts Group and has directed thirty original shows at La MaMa Theatre in New York, as well as in Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Bishkek, Ulaanbaatar and Ulan Ude. She has written award winning books on the Hutsul Koliada and Buryat shaman rituals, created museum exhibits and received an NEA Poetry Translation Fellowship for her translations with Wanda Phipps of Serhiy Zhadan’s poetry. www.brama.com/yara.

The entire reading will be in English.

Admission (includes gallery access, light reception): $10