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Matvei Yankelevich’s translations include Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms. His most recent poetry chapbook is Dead Winter (Fonograf). His co-translation of Mandelstam’s The Voronezh Notebooks is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. He is the editor of the nonprofit publisher World Poetry Books and teaches translation at Columbia University and elsewhere.