Special Event

Event

Poetry Reading: Martha Collins and Philip Nikolayev

Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

Fee:

Free.

Location:

East Lawn

Dates & Times

Date:

Sunday, July 10, 2022

Time:

3:00 PM

Duration:

1 hour

Type of Event

Performance

Description

Martha Collins has published ten volumes of poetry, most recently Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh, 2019), which won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. She has also published four volumes of co-translated Vietnamese poetry, most recently Black Stars: Poems by Ngo Tu Lap (Milkweed, 2013, with the author), and edited a number of anthologies. Her newest book of poems, Casualty Reports, is forthcoming in fall 2022.

Philip Nikolayev is a Russo-American bilingual poet living in Boston. He is a polyglot and translates poetry from several languages. Nikolayev’s verse collections include Monkey Time (Verse/Wave Books, winner of the 2001 Verse Prize) and Letters from Aldenderry (Salt). He co-edits Fulcrum, a serial anthology of poetry and critical writing. His bilingual edition, The Star of Dazzling Ecstasy: 79 Poems by Alexander Pushkin, Translated by Philip Nikolayev has been published by Tiptop Street.

This event is part of the Longfellow Summer Festival.

Reservation or Registration: No