Adjunct Associate Professor Alan Gilbert and Adjunct Assistant Professor Farnoosh Fathi will read from their new books of poetry. The readings will be followed by a discussion moderated by Adjunct Associate Professor Matvei Yankelevich about the work itself, the art of putting the book together, their experience with editors and publishers, and more.
Farnoosh Fathi is the author of the poetry collections Great Guns (Canarium 2013) and Granny Cloud (NYRB Poets 2024), editor of Joan Murray: Drafts, Fragments, and Poems (NYRB Poets 2018), and founder of the Young Artists Language and Devotion Alliance (YALDA). She lives and teaches in New York.
Alan Gilbert is the author of four books of poetry, including the ongoing epic poem, The Everyday Life of Design (first edition, 2020; revised and expanded edition, 2024); The Treatment of Monuments; and Late in the Antenna Fields. He is also the author of a collection of essays, articles, and reviews entitled Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight. He is the recipient of a 2019 Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and a 2006 Creative Capital Foundation Award for Innovative Literature. He is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Columbia University MFA Writing Program and is the website editor for BOMB Magazine.
Matvei Yankelevich is the author of several books and chapbooks, including Dead Winter from Fonograf Editions. His translations from Russian include Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms, and a forthcoming edition of Osip Mandelstam’s Voronezh Notebooks. In the late 1990s, he co-founded Ugly Duckling Presse and since 2022, he is the editor of World Poetry, a nonprofit publisher of poetry in translation. In 2023, he founded the small press Winter Editions. He has received fellowships from the NEA, the NEH, NYFA, and Civitella Ranieri, and teaches translation at Columbia University's School of the Arts and the Bread Loaf Translator’s Conference.
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About the New Book Series
The New Books Series celebrates recent work by members of the Writing Program community and explores how new books find their way into the world.
