LA-Lit interviews Matvei Yankelevich and
Anna Moschovakis at Betalevel on Tuesday, April 11th at 8pm. For information about attending the recording go here.

Matvei Yankelevich is the editor of the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse, and co-edits 6×6, a poetry periodical. He is the co-translator, with Eugene Ostashevsky, of An Invitation For Me To Think, the selected poems of Alexander Vvedensky, forthcoming from Green Integer; and of Russian Absurdism: OBERIU, an anthology forthcoming from Northwestern University Press. His own writing has appeared in various magazines and his critical work on Russian-American poets appears in Octopus Magazine. A chapbook of his long poem, The Present Work, is forthcoming from Los Angeles-based Palm Press in Spring 2006. He teaches Russian Literature at Hunter College in New York City.

Anna Moschovakis has been an editor and designer with Ugly Duckling Presse since 2002, helping to produce books and chapbooks by emerging writers, translations, and the poetry periodical, 6×6. Her translations of Henri Michaux, Claude Cahun, Blaise Cendrars, Théophile Gautier and others have been published by Fence, nest, and New York Review Books Classics. She is the author of two chapbooks, The Blue Book (Phylum Press, 2005) and Dependence Day Parade (Sisyphus, 2006), and her first book, I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone, will be published this fall by Turtle Point Press. She currently teaches in the Comparative Literature department of Queens College.

Please note the time change from our normal schedule: doors open at 7:45 p.m. and the reading/recording will begin by 8:15 p.m.

Anna and Matvei are in town from New York to do a reading at Beyond Baroque in Venice with Brent Cunningham, Stan Apps, Cedar Sigo, and Genya Turovskaya on Friday, April 14th, 2006 at 7:30 pm