Leo Yankevich

Infobox Writer

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birthdate = 1961
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occupation = Poet
nationality = United States
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movement = New Formalism
influences = W.B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Georg Trakl, Roy Campbell, Stanislaw Grochowiak
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website =http://leoyankevich.com

Leo Yankevich is an American poet and the editor of The New Formalist.

Born into a Roman Catholic family of Irish-Polish descent on October 30, 1961, he grew up and attended high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania, a small steel town in western Pennsylvania. He then studied History and Polish Studies at Alliance College, Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, receiving a BA in 1984. Later that year he travelled to Poland on a scholarship from the Kosciuszko Foundation to attend Krakow's Jagiellonian University. After the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, he decided to settle permanently in Poland. Since that time he has lived in Gliwice, an industrial city in Upper Silesia. [ [http://www.the-chimaera.com/October2007/Expat/Yankevich.html See "Tales I have Been Hanged By" at "The Chimaera"] ]

Poetry

Yankevich writes poems in both traditional metre and in syllabics, and only occasionally in free verse. He is a prolific translator, having rendered into English poems by Georg Trakl, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stanislaw Grochowiak, Czeslaw Milosz, Alexander Blok, Leopold Staff, Nikolay Gumilev, Boleslaw Lesmian and many others. He has a large Internet presence with work published in scores of online publications, ranging from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07356/843590-35.stm Onion Snow] to Poets Against War. [http://poetsagainstthewar.org/displaypoem.asp?AuthorID=51803#453107057 Poets Against The War Poem of the Month]

Quotes

"Nothing remains after philosophy but physical reality, be it dew on a lovely girl's maidenhood, or twisted wreckage after a tank battle."' [quoted in "An Interview with Leo Yankevich, Formalist Poetry News, October 2007" ]

Chapbooks by Leo Yankevich

*"The Language of Birds"; Pygmy Forest Press, 1994 ISBN 0-9445503-9-8
*"Grief's Herbs" (translations after the Polish of Stanisław Grochowiak); The Mandrake Press, 1995
*"The Gnosis of Gnomes"; The Mandrake Press, 1995
*"Epistle from The Dark"; The Mandrake Press, 1996 ISBN 83-904541-1-4
*"The Golem of Gleiwitz"; The Mandrake Press, 1998 ISBN 83-904541-6-5
* [http://newformalistpress.com/ebooks/yankevich.html "Metaphysics" by Leo Yankevich, 2002]
* [http://newformalistpress.com/ebooks/yankevich2.html "You Who Live And Hear" by Leo Yankevich, 2004]

Books by Leo Yankevich

*"The Unfinished Crusade"; The Mandrake Press, 2000 ISBN 839045419X
*"The Last Silesian"; The Mandrake Press, 2005 ISBN 0970821921
*" [http://newformalistpress.com/yankevich.pdf Tikkun Olam] "; The New Formalist Press, 2008

References

Further reading

* [http://www.lucidrhythms.com/August-2008/LeoYankevich.htm Two Poems at Lucid Rhythms]
* [http://www.futurecycle.org/YankevichThule.aspx Poem at Future Cycle]
* [http://thepennsylvaniareview.com/?cat=5 Poems at The Pennsylvania Review]
* [http://poetsagainstthewar.org/displaypoem.asp?AuthorID=51803#453107057 Poem of The Month at Poets Against War]
* [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07356/843590-35.stm Poem at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
* [http://monongahelareview.googlepages.com/TheMonongahelaReview-Winter2007.pdf Poems at The Monongahela Review]
* [http://www.the-chimaera.com/October2007/Expat/Yankevich.html Poems & Prose at The Chimaera]
* [http://www.shitcreekreview.com/issue5/page28.htm?28 Poem at SCR]
* [http://authormark.com/artman2/publish/Innisfree_5_20/LEO_YANKEVICH_874.shtml Poems at The Innisfree Poetry Journal]
* [http://eastriverreview.blogspot.com/ Poem at The East River Review]
* [http://www.lucidrhythms.com/August-2007/Leo_Yankevich.htm Poem at Lucid Rhythms]
* [http://www.shitcreekreview.com/issue4/ii/Poetry/LeoYankevich.htm Poems at II]
* [http://www.thehypertexts.com/Leo%20Yankevich%20Poet%20Poetry%20Picture%20Bio%20.htm Poems at Hypertexts]
* [http://www.completeclassics.com/leo-yankevich/poet-39722/ Poems at CompleteClassics]
* [http://www.poemsabout.com/poet/leo-yankevich/ Poems at PoemsAbout]
* [http://www.poemhunter.com/leo-yankevich Poems at Poemhunter.com]
* [http://www.barefootmuse.com/archives/issue4/yankevich.htm Poem at The Barefoot Muse]
* [http://csonnet.com/ Poems at Contemporary Sonnet]
* [http://www.poetryporch.com/scroll00.html Poems at Poetry Porch]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20070604142403/http://www.shattercolors.com/poetry/yankevich_donquixote.htm Poem at Shattercolors Lit Review]
* [http://www.dmqreview.com/nov00/yankevich.html Poems at DMQ Review]
* [http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~simmers/48quasi.htm Poem at Snakeskin]
* [http://www.dublinwriters.org/eacorn/EA8/yankevichpoem.html Poems at Electric Acorn]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20040826204847/js.spokane.wa.us/kimerav6n1/writers/yankevich.htm Poems at Kimera]
* [http://www.geocities.com/creativeashpress/yankevich41.htm Poem at Beauty for Ashes]