Group photo:
The Raymond Carver Poetry Series, Syracuse University, 2000
Brooks Haxton, Chris Kennedy, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Michael Burkard
Selected readings. For additional information: Dzvinia Orlowsky (FB); @DzviniaOrlowsky (X/Twitter); dzvinia.orlowsky (IG)
2024
June 9, Voices of Poetry Reading in Commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of D Day, curated by Neil Silberblatt. Unitarian Church of Barnstable, MA.
May 17, (Virtual) BespokeVocals (youtube) with Kirk Lawrence-Howard reading my prose poem “Given Plums” from Bad Harvest (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2018).
April 10, (Virtual) “Resilience: Writing from Ukraine and the Ukrainian Diaspora” reading with Ali Kinsella of our co-translations of Halyna Kruk’s poetry from Lost in Living (Lost Horse Press, 2024). Curated by Olena Jennings and Hanna Leliv to commemorate the second anniversary of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
March 21, (Virtual) BespokeVocals (youtube) with Kirk Lawrence-Howard reading Ali Kinsella’s and my co-translation from the Ukrainian of Halyna Kruk’s title poem “Lost in Living” from Lost in Living (Lost Horse Press, 2024).
February 26, (Virtual) Tribute reading to celebrate Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary, New England Poetry Club, curated by Nidia Hernandez.
January 15, (Virtual) BespokeVocals (youtube) with Kirk Lawrence-Howard reading my poem “The Village Crow” from Those Absences Now Closest (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2024).
2023
November 29, (Virtual) BespokeVocals with Kirk Lawrence-Howard reading Ali Kinsella’s and my co-translation from the Ukrainian of Halyna Kruk’s untitled poem, “so you and I have become bearers of bad news…” from Lost in Living (Lost Horse Press, 2024).
November 4, Voices of Diversity, Voices of America. Brockton Public Library, Brockton, MA.
October 8, (Virtual) New England Poetry Club contests results reading. Honorable Mention, Diana Der-Hovanessian Prize, selected by J. Kates: Ali Kinsella and I read our co-translation from the Ukrainian of “In a Small Provincial Chinese Town” by Halyna Kruk.
August 4, (Virtual) “The Illusive Chameleon: Prose Poetry or Flash Fiction” with Jeff Friedman, Johnson County Library, KS, curated by Lisa Allen.
August 3, (Virtual) “Immediacy, Urgency or Tranquility: What Moves Us to Write” with Carolyne Lee Wright, Johnson County Library, KS, curated by Lisa Allen.
July 10, Longfellow Summer Arts Festival: Poetry in Translation with Dzvinia Orlowsky and Nidia Hernandez, Longfellow House, New England Poetry Club, Cambridge, MA.
Jun 25, Bookstock Literary Festival reading. Curated by Chard DeNiord, Woodstock, VT.
June 6, (Virtual) Poetic Lines – Dzvinia Orlowsky, Poet and Translator, interviewed by Elizabeth Lund.
June 2, (Virtual) Lily Poetry Review, Reading with Jennifer Franklin, Karen Friedland, hosted by Founding Editor, Eileen Cleary.
May 30, North River Art Society Festival Reading with Tom Daley, Charles Coe and Chad Parenteau, curated by Elizabeth Hanson, Marshfield, MA.
May 21, (Virtual) W-E Poets of the Pandemic & Beyond.
May 15, (Virtual) BespokeVocals with Kirk Lawrence-Howard reading Chard Deniord’s and my co-translation from the Ukrainian of Volodymyr Tymchuk’s poem, “Nothing Forgotten”.
May 8, Mass Poetry Festival, guest panelist with Danielle Legros Georges “Translation Today” moderated by Jennifer Jean, Salem, MA.
April 12, Grolier Poetry Book Shop reading with Jennifer Franklin, Jennifer Jean and Annie Pluto, introduction by Fred Marchant, Cambridge, MA.
April 2, The Harriman Institute at Columbia University, New York, NY. A reading from Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow with Natalka Bilotserkivets (from Ukraine via Paris!) and Ali Kinsella. Hosted by Mark Andryczyk.
January 8, Solstice MFA Reading Series at Lasell University with Josh Neufeld, Lee Hope, Newton, MA.
January 7, (Virtual) BespokeVocals (youtube) with Kirk Lawrence-Howard reading Ali Kinsella’s and my co-translation from the Ukrainian of Natalka Bilotserkivets’s poem “Fire” from Eccentric Days of Hope & Sorrow, (Lost Horse Press, 2021).
2022
October 23, (Virtual) BespokeVocals with Kirk Lawrence-Howard reading my poem, “Invisible Departures” from Bad Harvest (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2018).
September 12, (Pre-recording of my poem “Two Solitudes” based on artwork by Oana Maria Cajal), Shattered, Symbolic Gesture, Bucharest International Poetry Festival, National Museum of Romanian Literature.
September 6, (Virtual) BespokeVocals with Kirk Lawrence-Howard reading Ali Kinsella’s and my co-translation from the Ukrainian of Natalka Bilotserkivets’s poem “Night Planes” from Eccentric Days of Hope & Sorrow (Lost Horse Press, 2021).
August 30, (Virtual) Women in Translation Month Reading Series, Pen America, with Ali Kinsella (co-translator) and Ukrainian poet, Halyna Kruk.
June 5, 4th Annual Voices of Poetry event at The Mount/Edith Wharton’s home in Lenox, Massachusetts. Host: Neil Silberblatt.
May 11, My poem “Invisible Departures” (Bad Harvest, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2018) performed as part of Beyond the Scorched Mountain, with live music by Farshid Soltanshahi and poetry. Upstream Theater, International Institute, St. Louis, Montana.
April 20, (Virtual) Ukrainian Voices: Featuring Ostap Kin, Ilya Kaminsky, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Max Rosochinsky and Luba Yalimchuk, The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn, New York.
March 1, (Virtual) Voices for Ukraine: Words Together, Worlds Apart, a transatlantic reading with over 800 listeners spanning Kyiv, Odesa, and Lviv, to LA, Atlanta, Philly, Little Rock, and beyond. Hosted by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach and Olga Livshin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTnDRmOhKos
February 12, “Queen of Our Hearts” along with Kathy Aguero, Eileen Cleary, Jennifer Martelli. Hosted by Gloria Monaghan. 65 Washington Street, Weymouth, Massachusetts.
2021
October 1, (Virtual) Cultivating Voices Live Poetry: A Special Reading with Lost Horse Press. Hosted by Sandy Yannone.
May 25, (Virtual) The Countries Between Us. Reading and panel discussion sponsored by Pen Ukraine, Pen America.
April 15, (Virtual) Zhadan & Friends 2021: Poetry. Yara Arts Group. Hosted by Virlana Tkacz. Guest reader: Serhiy Zhadan.
March 27, (Virtual) Lit Balm, An Interactive Livestream Readings Series: Lyn Hejinian, Jeff Friedman, Nin Andrews, and Dzvinia Orlowsky.
2020
December 13, (Virtual) Solstice Benefit/Riffs/Book Party featuring readings by Solstice staff writers; special featured guests: Adrian Matejka and Richard Blanco.
November 15, (Virtual) Border Lines: Poems of Migration (Knopf, 2020) eds. Mihaela Moscaliuc and Michael Waters.
April 24, Zhadan & Friends 2020, Poetry: The Roaring 20’s: Today and 100 Years Ago, Yara Arts Group. Hosted by Virlana Tkacz. Guest reader: Serhiy Zhadan.
April 25, Pink LemonAid Virtual Event: Breast Cancer-Inspired Stories co-founders, Elaine d’Entremont Sorrentino and Dzvinia Orlowsky. National Poetry Month, Ventress Memorial Library, Marshfield, MA.
2019
Brattleboro Literary Festival, reading with Jeff Friedman, Peter Johnson, Chard DeNiord.
Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 420 W 118th St, New York, New York, reading and panel discussion with Alex Motyl, Irene Zabytko, Askold Melnyczuk, Olena Jennings.
Why There Are Words, The Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, between Bleecker and Houston Streets in Manhattan’s East Village, New York. Hosted by Michael Collins.
Revival: A Monthly Literary Arts Spotlight in partnership with the Springfield Library. Mason Square Branch, Community Room, 765 State Street, Springfield, Massachusetts. Curated by María Luisa Arroyo.
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