Dear Friends,
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 reading will take place on Saturday, March 28th, at 7 PM in Gasson
Hall 305 (Fulton Debating Room, on the Boston College main campus (a BC
campus map is found at
http://www.bc.edu/about/maps/s-chestnuthill.html).
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(a)bc.edu
<mailto: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.
Maxim D. Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer
Professor of Russian & English
Chair, Department of Slavic & Eastern Languages and Literatures
_http://fmwww.bc.edu/SL-V/ShrayerM.html_
210 Lyons Hall, 140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3804 USA
e-mail: _shrayerm(a)bc.edu_ <mailto:shrayerm@bc.edu>
tel. 617-552-3911 fax. 617-552-3913