Life Stories, Death Sentences: Bilingual Reading of New LGBTQ+ Poetry and Prose

To celebrate Pride Month and Stonewall 50, we’re dedicating our June translation section to a folio of translated Russian LGBTQ literature entitled Life Stories, Death Sentences. This launch event will feature live English readings by the folio translators and recorded Russian readings by the authors. Noted scholars of Russian literature and gender/sexuality studies Eliot Borenstein and Julie Cassiday will introduce the evening and provide commentary on the conditions faced by queer artists in Russia today.

Life Stories, Death Sentences is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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Participants include Georgina Barker, Brad Damaré, Anne O. Fisher, David Louden, Friedrich Chernyshev, Ilya Denishevsky, Nastya Denisova, Dmitry Kuzmin, Stanislav Lvovsky, Margarita Meklina, Lida Yusupova, Galina Zelenina, Eliot Borenstein, and Julie Cassiday.