Monday, October 8
Hosts Stuart Canton and Bob Stanley
present
Russian-American poets featuring
Kim Golubev, Yuri Korotkov,
Nadezhda Garkusha and Rustem Galiev
Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th St
7:30 pm
Kim Golubev, co-host and translator
Kim Golubev is a graduate student, working on his MA in English Literature. The focus of Kim’s academic study is the Long 18th Century, and his thesis paper topic explores a connection between humanist ideas in Alexander Pope’s works and posthuman ideological shift of the contemporary speculative fiction. Kim is a recipient of Patrick Michael Ewing Memorial Scholarship for his academic excellence and commitment to the department of English, CSUS, over the past several years. During 2017-18 academic year, Kim was a poetry editor of the Calaveras Station Arts & Literary Journal, CSUS. He is a poet and emerging writer. Being multilingual, he writes prose and poetry in English, French, Ukrainian, and Russian.
Yuri Korotkov
Yuri Korotkov was born in Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow Regional Pedagogical Institute, Russian Language and Literature Department. For some time he worked as a teacher in a secondary school in Moscow. From 1976 to 1995 he worked at the radio station “Mayak” as a senior editor and special correspondent. In 1995 he moved to the US, Sacramento, California. From 1998 to 2017, he was the editor of the Diaspora newspaper. Currently, Yuri is a host and producer on Ethno FM radio – the local Sacramento Russian-speaking radio station. He is a member of the creative association “Lotus”. His poems were published in various publications, including almanac “Literary America” (2016). In early 2017, he published his poetry collection “Phantom of My Soul”.
Nadezhda Garkusha
Nadezhda was born in Ukraine, she and her husband have two children and seven grandchildren. In 1996 she moved to the US. Nadezhda started writing poetry when she was in school, and her poems have been published in several local and international journals and magazines, including “Diaspora Newspaper”, “The International Christian Newspaper”, “Our Days”, “Blagovest magazine”, “Light in the East”. Currently, Nadezhda is chair of the creative organization “Lotus”.
Rustem Galiev
Rustem Galiev was born in 1975 in Tatarstan. He graduated from Kazan State University with a degree in philology. Rustem’s specialty is 20th Century Russian Poetry. His poems were published in several literary journals including the almanac “Literary America”.
