Poet Biography

Alexander Skidan

An experimental and political poet, ALEXANDER SKIDAN was born in Leningrad in 1965. He is a translator of American poets Charles Olson and Eileen Myles, and has also translated theorists Antonio Negri and Jean-Luc Nancy. His books of poetry include Delirium, In the Re-Reading and Red Shifting. For the latter he was awarded the Andrei Biely Prize in 2006, and last year that book appeared in an American translation in New York. He currently lives in St. Petersburg where he teaches a course in “Untranslatable Russia” at the U.S. Summer Literary Seminars (SLS). He is a member of the “What Is To Be Done?” working group.