"In her first English-language collection, Gogol in Rome (Salt Publishing, 2004), Katia Kapovich, wrestles with the trauma of dissident life. In her second, Cossacks and Bandits (Salt Publishing, 2008), she attempts to reinvent herself as an American, yet somehow can't quite seem to untangle herself from her Soviet past." Read the full interview with Marc Vincenz at Open Letters Monthly.

POEMS, a new collection of verse from Fulcrum contributing editor Ben Mazer, has just been released from The Pen & Anvil Press in Boston. Mazer is also the author of January 2008 (Dark Sky Books, 2010) and the editor of Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (Harvard University Press, 2010), both of which are being published simultaneously with this volume.

Tuesday, November 3, 7 pm, at Pierre Menard Gallery, 10 Arrow Street, Harvard Square. Free and open the public.

About the readers: James Byrne is the editor and co-founder of The Wolf poetry magazine. His debut collection, Passages of Time, was published by Flipped Eye in 2003. Sandeep Parmar is an Indian-American poet and doctoral student in literature at University College, London. She has taught creative writing at the University of Hertfordshire, and has been published most recently in Magma. Ben Mazer is a Contributing Editor for Fulcrum; Philip Nikolayev is one of the co-founders of the magazine.

Scott Saul reviews Eilot Weinberg's new collection of prose writings, Oranges and Peanuts for Sale, for The Nation (September 30, 2009). One of the prose pieces in Weinberg's new book first appeared in Fulcrum No. 4, -- a parable about the Indian farmer who enlists Shiva to ghost-write a poem for him in order to win a prize.

This free poetry reading will be held on Thursday, April 23, 7 p.m. at
Pierre Menard Gallery/Lame Duck Books, 10 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA (up Arrow St. from Cafe Pamplona). Free wine.

Patrick Herron is a poet, artist and information scientist residing in Chapel Hill, NC. He is the author of The American Godwar Complex (2004, Blaze VOX) as well as the chapbooks, Man Eating Rice (Blaze VOX) and Three Poems (Gateway Songbooks). His poems and essays have appeared in journals such as Exquisite Corpse, Jacket, Talisman, Fulcrum, in the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, and in the anthology 100 Days (Barque Press). Current writing projects include two works of translation, a collection of essays and criticism, and a book of poetry.

Stephen Sturgeon's poems have appeared in Boston Review, Cannibal, Harvard Review, Jacket, and other magazines. He is the editor of Fulcrum: an Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics.