Derek Mong
8 MAY 2012 — tuesday
Poetry at the Albany Library presents Anne O. Fisher, translator of the comic novel The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Pertrov from the Russian, nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Translation, and poet Derek Mong, Other Romes, both writers will read from The Joyous Science: Selected Poems of Maxim Amelin, their collaborative translation-in-progress by Moscow poet Maxim Amelin, open mic follows, Albany Library, 1247 Marin Avenue, Albany, 7:00 (510/526-3720, www.aclibrary.org)