Katia Kapovich. Courtesy Arlindo-Correia.
Katia Kapovich (Ка́тя Капо́вич) (born 1960) is a Russian poet who lives in the United States. She writes in both Russian and English.
Life[]
Kapovich was born in Kishinev, Moldova, the only child of Jewish parents. She emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1990. Her first book in English, Gogol in Rome (ISBN 1-84471-046-7), was published in 2004 by Salt Publishing, and was shortlisted for the Poetry Trust's 2005 Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize.[1]
Her poem 'The Green One Over There' was included in the anthology Poetry 180 (edited by Billy Collins, Random House, 2003; ISBN 0-8129-6887-5) which grew out of the Library of Congress's Poetry 180 poetry-for-schools project.
Her work has appeared in periodicals including the London Review of Books, News from the Republic of Letters, and Novy Mir (in Russian).
She is one of the editors of Fulcrum (annual).
Recognition[]
In 2002 she received the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the United States Library of Congress.
Billy Collins included Kapovich's poem "The Green One Over There" in his 2003 anthology, Poetry 180.[2]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
English[]
- Gogol in Rome. Cambridge, UK: Salt, 2004. ISBN 1-84471-046-7
- Cossacks and Bandits: Poems, 2003-2006. Cambridge, UK: Salt, 2008. ISBN 978-1-84471-447-6.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[3]
Russian[]
- День Ангела и ночь (The Day of an Angel and the Night). 1992.
- Суфлер: Роман в стихах (The Prompter). 1998.
- Прощание с шестикрылыми (Farewell to Six-Winged). 2001.
- Перекур: Стихотворения (Perekur = Smoke-break). Sankt-Peterburg: Izd-vo "Pushkinskogo fonda", 2002.
- Веселый дисциплинарий (Veselyĭ dist︠s︡iplinariĭ). Moskva: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2005.
See also[]
P180-43-The Green One Over There - Katia Kapovich
References[]
- ↑ P. N. Review, 166. 'News and Notes'
- ↑ "The Green One Over There," Poetry 180, Poetry and Literature, Library of Congress. Web, May 31, 2018.
- ↑ Search results = Katia Kapovic, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Oct. 12, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- "The Green One Over There" at Poetry 180
- Katia Kapovich: Three poems at Jacket
- Katia Kapovich at the Poetry Foundation
- Ktia Kapovich (Moldova, 1960) at Poetry International (profile & 11 poems)
- Audio / video
- Katia Kapovich poems at YouTube
- Library of Congress 'Poet and Poem' webcast interview with Kapovich
- Books
- Katia Kapovich at Amazon.com
- About
- News item about the 2002 Witter Bynner Fellowship
- Katia Kapovich Official website.
- A Cloud of Voices: A conversation and twenty cigarettes with Katia Kapovich at Open Letters Monthly
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