Anton Tenser

Anton Tenser is a linguist, translator, and Russian-language poet. His collaborative translations of contemporary Russian and Ukrainian poetry have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, The Brooklyn Rail, and Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine. He is a co-translator and co-editor of Leonid Schwab's Everburning Pilot.

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"Everburning Pilot" and "For the Shrew": Two Poets, Two Books, Three Translators

Thursday, November 17, 2022
4:30 to 6pm EST

In person

Anna Glazova's For the Shrew and Leonid Schwab's Everburning Pilot will appear in English translation this fall. Our seminar will welcome both poets and three of their translators -- Alex Niemi, Alexander Spektor, and Anton Tenser -- to read from the books and answer questions about the poems, the translations, and the current state of Russian poetry.