Poetry Residency – a Reading with Galina Rymbu and Helena Kernan

Pushkin House invites to join for the closing event of Pushkin House’s First Contemporary Russian Poetry in Translation Residency with Galina Rymbu and Helena Kernan. Translator Kernan and poet Rymbu will perform readings of the originals and translations of Rymbu’s work that they have been working on together over the previous three weeks on a residency arranged collaboratively with Queen’s College, St Edmund’s Hall, and University College Oxford. They will also talk about the experience of being on the Residency together. The aim of the Residency is to support the translation of contemporary Russian poetry by providing a supportive environment where the translator and poet can work together over a dedicated time.

Galina Rymbu is a poet, literary critic, translator, journalist, curator, philosopher and feminist. Born in Omsk, Russia in 1990, she now lives in Lviv, Ukraine. She graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow and also studied at the European University in St Petersburg. Her poems have been translated into English, german, French, dutch, Italian, greek, Ukrainian, Spanish, Latvian, Romanian, Swedish and polish and she has been published in journals

This event will be in English and Russian.