A Taste of Russian Poetry

Event: Camden Conference Free Library Event: A Taste of Russian Poetry, November 16, 2014

The Camden Conference free Community Events series continues with poet, Ellen Goldsmith, leading “A Taste of Russian Poetry,” on Sunday, November 16, 2-4PM, at the Cushing Public Library. The event is free and open to all.

In Russia, poetry has been important to the people and to the identity of the country. Poets have been loved and respected. In this interactive session we will hear the voices of a number of Russian poets -- Anna Akhmatova, Joseph Brodsky, Mikhail Lermontov, Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir Nabokov, Boris Pasternak, Alexander Pushkin, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Different voices will read and respond to the poems. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with the poems as well.

Ellen Goldsmith is the author of No Pine Tree in This Forest Is Perfect, winner of the 1997 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Award. and Such Distances and Where to Look. “The Secret of Life” from Such Distances was read on Writers Almanac.  A professor emerita of the City University of New York, she lives in Cushing, Maine.

This presentation is hosted by the Cushing Public Library and offered as a free community event in in anticipation of the 28th Annual Camden Conference, “Russia Resurgent”, February 20-22, 2015.

The mission of the Camden Conference is to foster informed discourse on world issues. For more information, visit www.camdenconference.org, email info@camdenconference.org, or call 207-236-1034.