Online Program: Poets House Presents: Genya Turovskaya

Poet and practicing psychotherapist Genya Turovskaya reads from her book The Breathing Body of This Thought (Black Square Editions, 2019) from Brooklyn, NY.

Genya Turovskaya was born in Kiev, Ukraine, and grew up in New York City. She is the author of The Breathing Body of This Thought (Black Square Editions) as well as numerous chapbooks. Her poetry and translations of contemporary Russian poets have appeared in A Public Space, Asymptote, Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Fence, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Octopus, Paris Review, PEN Poetry, Sangam Poetry, Seedings, The Elephants, and other publications. She is the translator of Aleksandr Skidan’s Red Shifting (Ugly Duckling Presse). She has received a Fund for Poetry Grant, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a Montana Artist Refuge Fellowship, a Witter Bynner Translation Residency at Santa Fe Art Institute, and a Whiting Award. She lives in New York City where she is a practicing psychotherapist.

Poets House Presents is a series of 10 minute readings by poets that are posted on Twitter, Facebook, IGTV, and YouTube and our Archive, on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon.