Boston College will be hosting the 2009 Michael B. Kreps Memorial Readings on March 28, 2009. Vera Pavlova, a distinguished contemporary Russian poet and essayist, will read from and discuss her works. 

Born in Moscow in 1963 Vera Pavlova studied at the Schnittke College of Music and graduated from the Gnessin Music Academy with a degree in music history. Her first poems appeared in the Moscow monthly Iunost’ (Youth) in 1983. Ms. Pavlova has contributed hundreds of poems to leading periodicals in Russia. She is the author of twelve collections of poetry, including the recent book Po obe storony potseluia (On both Sides of the Kiss, 2004), Ruchnaia klad’: Stikhi 2004-2005 (Hand Luggage: Poems 2004-2005, 2006), Pis’ma v sosedniuiu komnatu (Letters to the Next Room, 2007), Mudraia dura (Wise Fool, 2008). Her work has been translated into fifteen languages and featured, in English translation, in The New Yorker. Winner of the 2000 Apollon Grigor’ev Prize, Ms. Pavlova divides her time between Moscow and New York.

The event is conducted in Russian and is free and open to the public. For more information, please call Boston College's Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages at (617) 552-3910 or email shrayerm@bc.edu. The event is cosponsored by the Boston College Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures and the Office of the Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.