Join UCLA Department of English for a poetry reading by Eugene Ostashevsky and Aditya Bahl, followed by a discussion with Danny Snelson about poetics, experiment, and politics. Light refreshments will be served.
Eugene Ostashvesky is a Russian-American poet, translator, and critic who teaches at New York University. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and translations, including The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi (2017) and The Feeling Sonnets (2022), both published in the NYRB Poets series. He is also the translator of Mayakovsky, Kharms, Belorusets, Dragomoshchenko, etc.
Aditya Bahl is a poet and critic who teaches at UCLA. He is the author of four chapbooks of poetry, including Mukt (Organism for Poetic Research, 2022). He has written for The Nation, New Left Review, and London Review of Books, among others.
Danny Snelson is a poet and critic who teaches at UCLA. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and criticism, including RADIOS (Make Now Press,2016) and The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats (MIT Press, 2025).
The event is sponsored by the Department of English, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures.