{"id":858,"date":"2014-02-24T15:10:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T20:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/?p=858"},"modified":"2014-03-06T10:58:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T15:58:36","slug":"bilingual-poetry-reading-by-polina-barskova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/2014\/02\/24\/bilingual-poetry-reading-by-polina-barskova\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilingual Poetry Reading by Polina Barskova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us on <strong>Friday, February 28, 2014 from 4:00-5:00pm in the Biblio Caf\u00e9<\/strong> of the Waider-Spahr Library for this bilingual poetry reading celebrating new poems and translations by poet Polina Barskova.\u00a0 Polina will read from her works, and you will have an opportunity to ask her questions about her own writing and topics of interest in contemporary Russian poetry and literature.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-859\" alt=\"Polina Barskova\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2014\/02\/pb1-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2014\/02\/pb1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2014\/02\/pb1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2014\/02\/pb1-327x490.jpg 327w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2014\/02\/pb1-163x245.jpg 163w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2014\/02\/pb1-333x500.jpg 333w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2014\/02\/pb1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>In her homeland of Russia, Polina Barskova is considered a prodigy, one of the most accomplished and daring of the younger poets.\u00a0 Born in 1976 in Leningrad &#8211; not called St. Petersburg, as before &#8211; she began publishing poems in journals at age nine and released the first of her six books as a teenager.\u00a0 She came to the United States at the age of twenty to pursue a Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, having already earned a graduate degree in classical literature at the state university in St. Petersburg.\u00a0 Barskova now lives in Massachusetts and teaches at Hampshire College in Amherst.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free admission<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>contact: Elizabeth Zizzi, Det. of Russian, zizzi@dickinson.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us on Friday, February 28, 2014 from 4:00-5:00pm in the Biblio Caf\u00e9 of the Waider-Spahr Library for this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1849,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[95088,832,1877],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barskova","tag-poetry","tag-russian","first-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}