New Translations from Kharkiv, Ukraine: Katerina Derysheva
Katerina Derysheva is a displaced poet from Kharkiv, Ukraine and currently poet-in-residence in the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory and the Department of Russian and East European Studies at Penn. Derysheva’s poetic work balances on the border between phenomenological and linguistic research, propelled by examination of everyday and technical language. This bilingual event will present Derysheva’s work in the original Russian and in new English translations. Derysheva will be joined by her translators Ryan Hardy, Andrew Janco, Olga Livshin, Asher Maria, and Kevin M. F. Platt.
KATERINA DERYSHEVA is a Ukrainian poet from Kharkiv. She is co-founder and organizer of the kntxt literary project. Her poems and translations have been published in the journals: Plume, Zerkalo, Tlen Literacki, Literatur in Bayern, Visions, Volga, The Colon, Literature, Articulation, New Coast, Arion, Homo legens, Kreshchatik, and others. She is the author of the books Starting Point (2018), There Will Be No Installation (2023); co-author of the book Earth Time (Romania, 2020). Her poems appeared in the anthology In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine, edited by Ilya Kaminsky and Carolyn Forche. She was long-listed for the Arkadiy Dragomoshchenko Prize (2019) and is laureate of the Europa Mai Prize (2022). Her poems and essays have been translated into 11 languages. She has held fellowships and residencies at Villa Concordia (Bamberg), LCB (Berlin), “La Factorie” (Normandy, 2023), and Villa Sarkia (Sysmä, Finland, 2023), and others.