RUSSIAN POEMS AND AFRICAN STORIES

with his family at the age of 11. He graduated from the University at Buffalo Poetics Program. He then went on to study French literature at the Sorbonne, followed by medical school at Cornell University. He has authored three collections of poetry and three volumes of prose. In 2014 he was awarded the “Russian Prize” (“Russkaja premija”) from the Boris Yeltsin Foundation for the novel “Sankofa” (based on his experiences working as a physician in Ghana). His other accolades include the Gumilev Prize (2007), Tamizdat Prize (2007), "Moscow Tally" Prize (2011), and “Bella” Russian-Italian Poetry Prize (2014). Over the past decade he has done medical work in different parts of Africa. He lives in New York and works as a radiation oncologist.
 

The event is organized by Grigory Starikovsky,  the curator of the Russian Reading Series at Tompkins Square Library.
Grigory Starikovsky – a poet, translator, essayist. Born in Moscow in 1971. In US since 1992. PHD in Classics (Columbia University). Recent verse collections “Levites and Singers” (2013) and “The Autonomous Source” (2017). Translates from Ancient Greek (Homer, Pindar), Latin (Vergil, Propertius, Persius), and English (William Carlos Williams, Patrick Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney). Teaches Latin at a public school in New Jersey, and Mythology at Montclair State University (NJ).