Celebration of The 7th Issue of the Cardinal Points literary journal

of the Air
      
Featuring:
Alex Cigale - translations from Mikhail Eremin and Daniil Kharms
Edwin Frank, Irina Mashinski, Alexander Veytsman,  Anton Yakovlev – poetry
Ian Singleton – an excerpt from Odessitka, a novel,
Yefim Somin – translation of Mikhail Lermontov’s French epigram
 
Hosted by Irina Mashinski
 
Cardinal Points Journal  (Robert Chandler, Boris Dralyuk, and Irina Mashinski, editors)  focuses on Russian and Eastern European poetry and prose in English translation
 
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Boris Dralyuk is the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.  He is the author of Western Crime Fiction Goes East: The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934  (2012) and translator of several volumes from Russian and Polish, including, most recently, Odessa Stories (2016).
Alex Cigale‘s translations from Russian and his own English-language poems have appeared widely . Alex was an Assistant Professor at the American University of Central Asia (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan).
Edwin Frank is the editor of the New York Review of Books Classics series since its inception in 1999. His collection Snake Train: Poems 1984-2013 came out in 2015.
 Irina Mashinski is a Russian poet and co-editor (with Robert Chandler and Boris Dralyuk) of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (2015), as well as co-editor (also with R.Chandler and B. Dralyuk) of Cardinal Points.
Ian Singleton teaches for New York Writers Workshop and PrisonWrites! and freelances as a translator and tutor. He is working on a novel titled Odessitka. His first collection, Grow Me Up, is seeking a home.
Yefim Somin, originally from St.Petersburg, divides his time between studying languages, translating poetry, and acting on screen and stage. He has been living in America since 1979, and in Boston since 1980.
Alexander Veytsman writes poetry, fictional prose, and essays, and  translates poetry into English and Russian. Alexander is the Director of the Compass Translation Award, a StoSvet project (www.stosvet.net/compass). He is a graduate of Harvard and Yale universities.
Anton Yakovlev studied filmmaking and poetry at Harvard University and has directed several short films. He works as a college textbook editor. His collection Neptune Court appeared in 2015.