
Marina
Blitshteyn
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poet.writer.educator
Born in the Soviet Union, Marina Blitshteyn and her family fled to the US in 1991 as refugees.
She studied English at SUNY Buffalo, where she edited the longstanding annual Name poetry journal, and Creative Writing at Columbia University, where she also served as a University Writing Fellow and consultant.
She is the author of Two Hunters, her first full-length collection, to be published by Argos Books in 2018 with a CLMP Face-Out grant. Prior chapbooks include Russian for Lovers (Argos Books), $kill$ (dancing girl press), Nothing Personal (Bone Bouquet Books), and the forthcoming Sheet Music (Sunnyoutside Press).
Her work has been anthologized in the new Brooklyn Poets Anthology, The &Now Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing, Why I Am Not a Painter, and My Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry.
She teaches Composition and Rhetoric and experimental non-fiction and runs The Loose Literary Canons, a feminist reading group in NYC.


Poems
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"Pride"
Brooklyn Poets
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"Influential Ghosts", "Fellowship", "I miss intimacy", "prayer", "sketch 4"
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"Axis, or atlas", "anxiety dream", "castles", "a heaven, a god"
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"Mission to Mars", "City", "Summer"
"MY HEART’S STRUCTURE IS SOUND"
H.O.W. Journal
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"100 headstones toppled", "frida kahlo"
Peach Mag
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"Identity Love Poem", "Post-Identity Love Poem"
Apogee Journal
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Writing
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NOTES TOWARD A PERSONAL POETHIC, SUMMER 2014
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MANY LIVES, MANY DEATHS
Con-Text
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ASYLUM SEEKERS: A REVIEW BY MARINA BLITSHTEYN
Two Serious Ladies
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Coldfront
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THE FIERCE BUMS OF DOO-WOP BY AMBER ATIYA
The California Journal of Women Writers
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Media
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Reading from "Russian for Lovers" Audio
The Internet Archive
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STUDIO A WITH MARINA BLITSHTEYN AND K.T. BILLEY
on WKCR 89.9 FM
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INTERVIEW: IRIS MARBLE CUSHING
The California Journal of Women Writers
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AWP ROUNDTABLE: ENGLISH IN TRANSIT: EMERGING MULTILINGUAL WRITERS ON NAVIGATING AMERICAN ENGLISH(ES)
The Sundress Blog
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