Readings with Sergey Gandlevsky (2005)
Gandlevsky and Pushkin in Michael Wachtel’s office (Princeton)
Philip Metres and Gandlevsky reading at Hunter College (NYC)
Metres at Hunter College
Walt Whitman’s boots (NYC)
It is Dangerous to Touch or Tamper With Lines
Metres and E.J. McAdams, New York City
Gandlevsky at University of Wisconsin, Madison
Gandlevsky at Wesleyan University
Metres and Gandlevsky and Wesleyan
Gandlevsky at cemetery in Amherst, with Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson kitsch
Gandlevsky and Metres with Emily Dickinson, “called back”
Gandlevsky pondering his next move at Amherst College
Gandlevsky and Metres with samovars in Amherst
In Cambridge, with Gandlevsky’s people
The Bus Ride North to Hanover
Class with Mr. Gandlevsky at Dartmouth
Metres, David Young, and Gandlevsky with Tu Fu at Oberlin College
Metres and Gandlevsky at John Carroll
Gandlevsky at Nighttown
Metres at City Lights
Metres, Gandlevsky, and Mikhail Iossel on Jack Kerouac Street
Special thanks to everyone who made this reading tour happen: John Carroll University’s Center for Global Education (for funding our travel), my wife Amy Breau and daughter Adele (for putting up with my absence), Anselm Berrigan and the Poetry Project crew (Stacy, etc.), Matvei Yankelevich, the Russian club at Hunter College, Project Gorod (Sasha Stessin), Michael Wachtel (and Princeton University), Jennifer Tischler (and CREECA at UWisconsin Madison), Duffy White (and the Wesleyan Slavics Department), Cathy Ciepela (and Amherst) (Cathy, thanks for driving us to Cambridge!), Stephanie Sandler and the Davis Center at Harvard, Lev Loseff at Dartmouth, Brian Cook (for brotherhood), Jeff Parker (and Eastern Michigan University), David Young (and Oberlin), John Carroll University, Alik Zholkovsky (and the USC Slavics Department), Marjorie Perloff (thanks!), Lazar Fleishman (Stanford), Jenny Barker, and Becca Black.
