The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
"A Poetics of Intense Precision (On the Main Tendencies in Contemporary Russian Poetry)"
Poetry Reading and LectureDmitry Golynko
Russian poet, Prof. at the University of Film and Television Studies (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Wed., Nov. 4 at 5 pm
Building 60, room 120
Co-sponsored by CREEES
Dmitry Golynko was born in 1969, in Leningrad, USSR. He currently
lives in St. Petersburg, Russia where he is a poet, scholar in Visual
Ethics and Biopolitics, and a literary and art critic. He is also a
scientific researcher at the Russian Institute of Arts History in St.
Petersburg. In 2004-2005 Golynko was a visiting professor in Cheongju
University's Slavic Department in South Korea. He is a member of
Moscow Art Magazine editorial board and a professor at the University
of Film and Television Studies (St. Peterburg, Russia). His books of
poetry include Homo Scribens (St. Petersburg, Borey-Art,1994),
Directory (Moscow, Kolonna Publications, 2001), Concrete Doves
(Moscow, New Literary Review, 2003), and As It Turned Out (New York,
Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008). In to addition poetry, Golynko regularly
publishes essays on contemporary literary process and cultural
phenomena. In February, 2005 Golynko was writer-in-residence at
Literarischer Colloqium in Berlin, Germany. In September 2007 he was
an award-winning writer at CEC ArtsLink-Open World program. He is a
CEC ArtsLink Fellow for 2009, CEU (Budapest) Fellow for 2010, and DAAD
(Berlin) Artist-in-Residence for 2010-2011. Golynko's poems and essays
have been translated into English, German, French, Danish, Finnish,
Icelandic, Swedish and Italian.
For "As It Turned Out", click here>
To Read a Review, click here>
For an Interview (and poem), click here>
For another poem, click here>