The Splice Poetry Series: Matvei Yankelevich & olga mikolaivna

Name: The Splice Poetry Series: Matvei Yankelevich & olga mikolaivna
Start: 2025-11-15T18:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-11-15T20:00:00-06:00
Location: Saturn Bar

Schedule

Sat Nov 15 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Saturn Bar | New Orleans, LA

Matvei Yankelevich & olga mikolaivna will read their poems at Saturn Bar on Saturday, November 15th @ 6:00 p.m. This event is free and open to the public and is supported in part by http://litwire.org/
Matvei Yankelevich is a poet, translator, and editor whose publications include Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt (Black Square), Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook), and the chapbook Dead Winter (Fonograf). Since 2022, he is the editor of World Poetry Books, a nonprofit publisher of poetry in translation. In 2023, he founded the small press Winter Editions. He teaches translation at Columbia University's School of the Arts.
olga mikolaivna was born in Kyiv and works in the (intersectional/textual) liminal space of photography, word, translation, and installation. Her debut chapbook cities as fathers is out with Tilted House, and “our monuments to Southern California,” she calls them is forthcoming with Ursus Americanus Press. Her translation of Stanislav Belsky's first full length collection in English will be out with Dialogos / Lavender Ink. Other works can be found in mercury firs, Literary Hub, Cleveland Review of Books, Black Sun Lit, and elsewhere.