Track Changes: Niina Pollari & Olga Mikolaivna

Track Changes is a listening, reading, and conversation series where writers chat about their favorite records. Join us for a night of music, readings, and conversation at the Pen & Pencil Club—the oldest continuously operating press club in the country.

Translators and writers Niina Pollari (NC) and olga mikolaivna (Philly)!

Niina Pollari is a poet and occasional Finnish translator. She is the author of two poetry collections, Path of Totality (Soft Skull 2022) and Dead Horse (Birds, LLC 2015), and the translator of Tytti Heikkinen's The Warmth of the Taxidermied Animal (Action Books 2012). She also writes and edits for the online literary brotherhood Zona Motel, and lives in western North Carolina with her family.

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.

This is a ticketed event. Getting tickets in advance is strongly encouraged; availability at the door is not guaranteed. Online sales end at 6pm day-of; door sales end at 7:15pm.

Sliding-scale donation tickets ($5–15 suggested) support honoraria for our terrific readers and the P&P, which generously provides space for this public event.

Want to gift a ticket to someone else? Use the pay-it-forward community ticket option. Want to claim a ticket from the community pool? Just email alinapleskova[at]gmail.com—no explanation needed, just a name!

Thank you for supporting this non-institutionally affiliated series. ♡

Save the date!

Nov 11 — Ryan Skrabalak (Kingston, NY) & Gina Myers (Philly)

Dec 9 — Austyn Wohlers (Baltimore, MD) & Sam Heaps (Philly)

Host or Publisher Alina Pleskova