We are devastated to learn of the death of Denis Akhapkin. He was a true friend to poetry: a brilliant and sensitive scholar, a dedicated humanist, and a spirited literary companion. His work as an editor and expositor of the works of Joseph Brodsky were foundational. We mourn his loss and the loss to literature https://www.facebook.com/smolnybb/posts/pfbid031TknsG47SriyrbwoMN53EqYARpmvGj3hEG3C2FwQr7ddHPuLfAj1osDQDn6XFzMLl (fb)

Tomorrow evening the Poetry in America television series and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will present a screening of Poetry in America’s recent episode on Joseph Brodsky with Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship Fund co-founder Ann Kjellberg and Yivo director Jonathan Brent, both of whom appear in the episode (as do Sven Birkerts, Zakhar Ishov, and others) in conversation. Please join us! Or watch the episode at home here https://www.poetryinamerica.org/episode/six-years-later-epitaph-for-a-centaur/?fbclid=IwY2xjawG8SfpleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQVc7cLeCxFjc6YrujupZNSIZWx5Z2tHqbYErUj4mwzOkp0YKgAZpr76jg_aem_teQwrbfnATd-BtEH2Bizww https://yivo.org/Joseph-Brodsky?fbclid=IwY2xjawG8Sb5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHUS6hCnp-SPfvw7I8q8abuJD6Ln_KlL6CexmCDvmh9dIM39aNv_gCzT9Bg_aem_kHF-2lJji9aa_uOrMy-oeA (fb)