When: 20/10/2009

Where: Spiro Ark Centre

Time: 19.30

Contact: 020 7723 9991

Price: £10 + £1 booking fee

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Marina Temkina, a native of St Petersburg in Russia, is a poet and an artist. She emigrated from the former Soviet Union and many years later began to present herself as an "Old-Russian- Reborn-Jewish-New-American living in New York City." Marina published seven poetry books and received several grants and awards, among them a grant from National Endowment for the Arts and Charles Revson Fellowship on the Future of New York from Columbia University, and a grant from National Endowment for the Arts and Memorial Foundation of Jewish Culture. This year her book What Do You Want was published by Ugly Duckling Press in Brooklyn, New York.
At her presentation and poetry performance for the Spiro Ark, she will talk about her experience of being a Russian Jewish immigrant and a poet living in a different linguistic environment while discovering such notions and cultural practices as multiculture, feminism and psychoanalysis. She will speak about a process of departing from the models of her former baggage, and a new set of difficulties connected with liberation and integration into New York City and the Jewish intellectual and artistic life there.