IT’S NO GOOD: POETRY AS RESISTANCE? With Maria Stepanova

The event took place at Litteraturhuset / The Oslo House of Literature, on Thursday 29 November 2018 at 9 p.m.

Poetry reading with the Russian poets Lev Rubinstein, Kirill Medvedev and Maria Stepanova. Crossing the borders between poetic and political, giving the voice to the contemporary Russian poetry that exists at the cutting edge of the current cultural process. Moderation by Sasha Dugdale.

Hosted by The Fritt Ord Foundation, The New York Review of Books Foundation and the Russian online journal Colta.Ru.

Maria Stepanova is a poet, essayist, journalist and the author of ten poetry collections and two books of essays. She has been awarded several Russian and international literary prizes. In 2018 and 2019 Stepanova is working as a Siegfried Unseld guest professor at Humboldt University, Berlin. She is also the founder and editor-in-chief of the online independent crowd-sourced journal Colta.ru. Colta.ru covers the cultural, social and political reality of contemporary Russia, with an audience of 600 000 visitors a month.

Sasha Dugdale is renowned as a translator of poetry, and has published numerous books of poetry and plays translated from the Russian, as well as four collections of her own poetry – most recently Joy (2017). As an editor of the acclaimed magazine Modern Poetry in Translation, she had launched a special issue devoted to contemporary Russian and Ukrainian poetry: “War of the Beasts and the Animals”, published in 2017.