Maia Evrona

Poet; Memoirist; Translator

Photograph of Maia Evrona in Cadaqués wearing a hat

Photograph of Maia Evrona in Girona, Spain.

Upcoming schedule:

-March 19th, 2023, 5pm EST

Reading with Yetzirah Poets (Online Event)

https://yetzirahpoets.org/yprograms/3-19-22/


Past events:

-November 12th

Reading of original poetry at La Casa Adret, Barcelona. There will also be music from Eva McGowan and a reading of Nelly Sachs’ poetry in Catalan translation.

Time: Likely 7pm (Will update.)


-November-March 2021-22

Research in Barcelona and Sevilla, Spain, under the auspices of the joint Spain-Greece Fulbright Scholar Award. Readings to be announced.

-April-June 2022

Research in Chania, Crete, also under the auspices of the joint Spain-Greece Fulbright Scholar Award. Readings to be announced.


Past events

—Sunday, June 13th 2021

4-6 pm Pacific Standard Time

Reading with other contributors in celebration of 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium

—February 18th

Panel with Anthony Russell and Amelia Glaser on Yiddish responses to the Civil Rights Movement and ethnic solidarity

New York City Worker’s Circle/Arbeter Ring

7pm EST

Register and read more here: https://www.circle.org/cultural-events/familiarity-and-distance?fbclid=IwAR3QRZHHlTZxMFqH_dNsctAHY8Fcw7VwQt7LcgCI9-jpevUrK3qjh2XouhM


--February 19th 2021

Reading poems and translations at the virtual Us&Them Reading Series (Normally held in Brooklyn)

5pm eastern

To watch on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/events/4108197685879704/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22surface%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22create_dialog%22%7D]%7D

To watch via zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82489102345


—February 24th, 2021

Bennington Virtual Writers Series

7pm


-October 7th 2020, 5:30-6:15

Bilingual reading of my translations of Avrom Sutzkever, Yoysef Kerler and Anna Margolin

Annual Alexis Levitin Bilingual Reading Series: Central European Jewish Writing

Virtual American Literary Translators Conference

-August 12, 2020

Reading of Avrom Sutzkever and Yoysef Kerler

Virtual Night of the Murdered Poets Commemoration

Congress for Jewish Culture


-March 11th 2020

“Yiddish Women Poets”

Reading of my translations of Anna Margolin, Celia Dropkin and Malka Lee

La Casa Adret, Barcelona

[-Early April 2020 (precise date TBA)

Reading of my own original poetry

La Casa Adret, Barcelona

These readings are made possible by the Fulbright Scholar Program.

-April-June 2020: Writing and conducting research in Greece, also as part of my Fulbright scholar award. I will be giving readings at the Etz Hayyim Synagogue in Chania, Crete (precise dates to be announced).] —ALL CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19


-January 28th, 7pm

“Yiddish Poetry of the Mediterranean”

Reading of my translations of Avrom Sutzkever, Yoysef Kerler and Anna Margolin at the Casa Adret, in Barcelona.


-November 8th, 2019

3:30 pm

Reading at the American Literary Translators Association Conference

Rochester, NY

-16 June, 2019

Reading of my poems and translations of Yiddish poetry in Auckland, NZ

Raye Freedman Library

5:00-6:30 pm


-May 9th 2019

4:30 pm

Reading of my translations of Yoysef Kerler and Avrom Sutzkever at the Holocaust Centre in Wellington, New Zealand. (This reading is made possible by the support of the Yiddish Book Center.)

-May 5th 2019

7pm

Reading of my translations of Yoysef Kerler and Avrom Sutzkever at the Kadimah Yiddish Library and Cultural Center in Melbourne, Australia

-April-May 2019: Translating and conducting research at the Kadimah Library and Cultural Center in Melbourne, Australia. This trip is made possible by the Yiddish Book Center.


If you are interested in having me give a reading or lecture in your community, please get in touch via my contact page.


If you would like to support my ability to offer readings and lectures, feel free to make a donation through my Paypal Tipjar. Thank you!

Copyright: Maia Evrona, 2013. All rights reserved.