New Writing Series Winter 2020

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo -- Wednesday, February 12, 2020 -- Geisel Library, Seuss Room at 5:00 pm

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet, essayist, translator, and immigration advocate. He is the author of the collection  Cenzontle (2018), which won the 2017 A. Poulin Jr. prize, and the chapbook  Dulce (2018). His memoir,  Children of the Land, is forthcoming from Harper Collins in 2020. His work has appeared or been featured in The New York Times, PBS Newshour, People Magazine en Español, The Paris Review, Fusion TV, Buzzfeed, Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, New England Review, and Indiana Review, among others. He lives in Sacramento, CA and currently teaches in the Low-Res MFA program at Ashland University.

Dmitry Kuzmin -- Wednesday, February 26, 2020 -- Geisel Library, Seuss Room at 5:00 pm

Dr. Dmitry Kuzmin is a poet, translator, and editor, originally from Moscow. His poetry has been published and anthologized internationally, in the original Russian and in translation. In 1989 Kuzmin founded Vavilon (Babylon), the Union of Young Poets, which was the hub of Moscow's experimental poetry scene. Since 1993, he has headed ARGO-RISK Publishers. He has edited the online Russian literary project, vavilon.ru, since 1996, and Vozdukh (Air), the leading Russian poetry magazine, since 2006. Among his numerous other projects, Kuzmin directed the monthly Moscow Literary Life (1996–2002), edited the first Russian young writers’ magazine Vavilon (1992–2003), the first Russian gay writing magazine RISK (1996–2002), and the first Russian haiku magazine Triton (2000–2004). Kuzmin is the co-author of the award-winning text-book “Poetry” (2016), and the author of a book-length study of one-line poetry (NLO, 2016). He compiled the first Russian anthology of prose poems (2000), the first anthology of contemporary Russian poetry written outside Russia (2004), an anthology of contemporary Russian poetry in Slovenian translation (2010), and an anthology of present-day Russian LGBT writing in Spanish translation (2014). He won the Andrei Bely Merit Award in Literature (2002). Kuzmin emigrated from Russia to Latvia in 2014 for political reasons, and founded “Literature without borders,” a publisher and translation center that offers residencies for poets and translators. He has coordinated, since 2017, the yearly festival “Poetry without borders” in Riga, Latvia. Kuzmin has taught poetry and literary translation at universities, internationally, including at Princeton University in 2014.