1987 Interview with Joseph Brodsky Published at TinHouse January 24, 2013: In 1987 Marcia DeSanctis, then a producer for ABC, set out to interview leading Soviet writers exiled in the US "to get their take on the literary reforms coming out of Moscow." The transcripts from the interviews were filed away and seemingly forgotten. Now, TinHouse has been publishing transcripts of the interviews in a series called [...] by Harriet Staff

Brodsky Week May 22, 2012: Another update on the Joseph Brodsky musuem. According to this brief post from The Voice of Russia: Russia’s St.Petersburg is hosting the Brodsky Week dedicated to the May 24 birth day of the Nobel winning Russian poet. The event is aimed at raising money to create a museum and a cultural center in Brodsky’s tiny “room and a [...] by Harriet Staff

“Carl and Ellendea Proffer were Russian literature” March 21, 2012: At the Moscow Times, John Freedman has a terrific piece remembering the life and work of Carl and Ellendea Proffer and Joseph Brodsky. Freedman begins by discussing Proffer's contribution to publishing unpublishable Soviet literature in the 1970s: Along with his wife Ellendea C. Proffer, he founded Ardis Publishers in the early 1970s. This [...] by Harriet Staff

Brodsky Museum Update February 2, 2012: The museum slated to open in Joseph Brodsky's family flat faced financial troubles, but it looks like it may still happen with help from the good ol' U S of A, according to this article from The St. Petersburg Times. Now hear this: The apartment-museum of Russian-born Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Joseph Brodsky may open in the [...] by Harriet Staff

A call for more poetry activists among the laureates March 29, 2011: In an opinion piece for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Julia Baird laments the relative invisibility of poet laureates among the general public. The deficiency isn't in the public's taste for poetry but rather the title itself, the kind of person it's bestowed upon and what it should require of its bearer. Baird recalls the efforts of Joseph Brodsky [...] by Harriet Staff