Andrey Gritsman & Fanny Howe @ KGB

KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series
Hosted by Laura Cronk and Michael Quattrone
Monday, May 5, 2008
7:30 pm
FREE

Featuring: Andrey Gritsman and Fanny Howe

ANDREY GRITSMAN is a native of Moscow, Russia, immigrated to the US in 1981, lives in the New York City, works as a physician. He is a poet, essayist and translator and writes in English and in his native Russian. Mr.Gritsman is the author of five volumes of poetry and book of essays in Russian. As a translator Mr. Gritsman is focused on translations of modern Russian poetry into English and poetry of the Russian Silver Age: Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Blok. He runs Intercultural Poetry Series in a literary club Cornelia Street Café in New York City and is the Editor and Publisher of the on-line international poetry magazine INTERPOEZIA.

FANNY HOWE is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose, including On the Ground, finalist for the 2005 Griffin International Poetry Prize, and Selected Poems, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize and most recently The Lyrics: Poems from Graywolf Press.

KGB Bar ● 85 East 4th Street ● New York, NY 10003 ● Phone: 212-505-3360

--MQ & LC