Lightness of Being
Lightness of Being
Art of Irina Kopelevich

“I paint because it makes me happy to be able to put the world that lives in my head on a piece of paper. I am not concerned with proportions but with movement and color. I am trying to paint music in my pictures, I am trying to freeze the moment. “ –– Irina Kopelevich

About the Author:

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photo by Irina Kopelevich
Irina Kopelevich
Denver, Ciolorado

Irina is originally from Riga, Latvia.  She immigrated to the US in 1980  and became a local  Denver, Colorado artist.  Her work has been exhibited in galeries and in various exhibitions throughout the Denver Metro area.  Irina primarily paints with a mixture of tempera and ink wash, watercolors, and charcoal.  She is a member of the Colorado Watercolor Society, and her work has been featured in the April 2007 issue of the Hadassah Magazine

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Bookshelf
by Aleksandr Kabanov

A book of wartime poems by Alexandr Kabanov, one of Ukraine’s major poets, fighting for the independence of his country by means at his disposal – words and rhymes.

by Mark Budman

Every character in these twenty-two interlinked stories is an immigrant from a place real or imaginary. (Magic realism/immigrant fiction.)

by Andrey Kneller

In this collection, Andrey Kneller has woven together his own poems with his translations of one of the most recognized and celebrated contemporary Russian poets, Vera Pavlova.

by Osip Mandelstam

This collection, compiled, translated, and edited by poet and scholar Ian Probstein, provides Anglophone audiences with a powerful selection of Mandelstam’s most beloved and haunting poems.

by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry

Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union—but not all of them will live to see the new world arrive in this powerful debut novel, loosely based on Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.

 

by Victor Enyutin

A book of poems in Russian by Victor Enyutin (San Francisco, 1983). Victor  Enyutin is a Russian writer, poet, and sociologist who emigrated to the US from the Soviet Union in 1975.

Videos
Three Questions. A Documentary by Vita Shtivelman
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Poetry Reading in Honor of Brodsky’s 81st Birthday
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