Reading Subhashini Kaligolta and Philip Nikolayev

            

Subhashini Kaligotla is a poet and architectural historian of medieval India. A graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program in Creative Writing and a Kundiman poetry fellow, her work has appeared in such journals as The Caravan, diode, LUMINA, New England Review, and The Literary Review. In 2018, Subhashini published her first book of poems Bird of the Indian Subcontinent, which owes its existence to New York City, a city she considers home no matter where she was born, raised, or lives. She is Assistant Professor of South Asian Art at Yale University

 

Philip Nikolayev is a Russo-American bilingual poet living in Boston. He is a polyglot and translates poetry from several languages. His poetic works are published in literary periodicals internationally, including Poetry, The Paris Review, and Grand Street. Nikolayev’s collections include Monkey Time (Verse/Wave Books) and Letters from Aldenderry (Salt). His translations of selected poetry by Alexander Pushkin will be brought out by Littera Publishing later this year. He co-edits Fulcrum, a serial anthology of poetry and critical writing.