Join CSEEES and for a special reading and discussion with poet Ekaterina Derysheva.
Archipelago of Syntax
This event is dedicated to Derysheva's antiwar and recent poems. We will discuss how one can write about war and displacement and then move entirely beyond narrative—shifting into abstract and intense poetics, where language operates differently, outside of documentation and storytelling.
Biography:
Ekaterina Derysheva is a displaced poet from Kharkiv, born in 1994 in Melitopol, Ukraine. Her poems have been published in journals such as Poem-a-Day series, Asymptote, Buenos Aires Poetry, Plume, Zerkalo, Tlen Literacki, Literaturportal Bayern, Wizje, Volga, and others. She is the author of the books Starting Point (2018) and There Will Be No Installation (2023), and the co-author of the book Earth Time (Romania, 2020). Her poems are featured in the anthology In the Hour of War, edited by Ilya Kaminsky and Carolyn Forché. She was longlisted for the Arkadiy Dragomoshchenko Prize (2019) and is a laureate of the Europa Mai Prize (2022). Her poems have been translated into 11 languages.
She has received fellowships from Villa Concordia (Bamberg), LCB (Berlin), Next Page Foundation (Sofia), Artist Protection Fund Fellowship in residence at University of Pennsylvania. She is currently based in Philadelphia.
This event is being hosted in conjunction with RUSSIAN 1205: Russia through Posters, Propaganda, and Poetry and is free and open to Ohio State students, faculty/staff, and members of the public. If you have any questions about accessibility or wish to request accommodations, please contact CSEEES at cseees@osu.edu. Typically, a two weeks' notice will allow us to provide access, but we will try to accommodate requests that come in after the two-week mark.
