2021-2022 Maya Brin Resident Aleksandr Skidan
March 25, 2022
The Maya Brin Residency Program is pleased to welcome Aleksandr Skidan
Aleksandr Skidan (b. 1965). Poet, critic, essayist, translator. Skidan attended Leningrad Free University (1989–1992), while working as a stoker in a boiler house (1985–2002). His poetry collections include Delirium (1993), In the Re-Reading (1998), Red Shifting (2005), Dissolution (2010), Membra disjecta (2015) and most recently Contamination (2020). He is also the author of five books of essays, Critical Mass (1995), The Resistance to/of Poetry (2001), Sum of Poetics (2013), Theses Toward Politicization of Art and Other Texts (2014) and Damp Words Chalk: About Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (2019). He has translated American contemporary poetry and fiction into Russian (Paul Bowles, Charles Olson, Susan Howe, Rosmarie Waldrop, Michael Palmer) as well as theoretical works by Paul de Man, J. Hillis Miller, Jean-Luc Nancy, Paolo Virno, Gerald Raunig. He has been awarded the Andrey Bely Prize in poetry (2006), and was a Joseph Brodsky Fellowship Fund fellow (2018). His poetry has been translated into many languages and published in different anthologies. In 2008 his book Red Shifting was published in the US by Ugly Duckling Presse. Member of Chto Delat’? working group. Co-editor of the New Literary Observer magazine where he has been curating the New Poetry (Novaya poezia) book series since 2009. He lives in Saint-Petersburg.
