1. He founded the organization with the late Russian poet Joseph Brodsky. 2. His shelves are crammed with books, including the anthology of banned Russian poets that he compiled in part from memory when he first came to the United States. 3. Not only does Crowley write Falin lines that suggest the rugged pith of modern Russian poets in translation, but the lines themselves are real poetry as well. 4. QUEENS COLLEGE GETS POETRY STAR Russian poet Yevveny Yevtushenko has joined the faculty of Queens College, part of the City University of New York. 5. When Joseph Brodsky died early this year, his fellow Russian poet Tatyana Tolstaya wrote a moving tribute in The New York Review of Books. 6. Yevgeny Yevtushenko, the Russian poet, was recently hired as a tenured professor. 7. A Russian poet and painter who converted to Islam when she married, Dudayev said she has been offered a senior post in a new Chechen government. 8. For nearly four decades Yevtushenko, arguably the greatest living Russian poet, was the conscience of the Soviet regime. 9. For nearly four decades, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, arguably the greatest living Russian poet, was the conscience of the Soviet regime. 10. He has taught at Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton and other colleges and universities and translated the work of recent Russian poets. |