discuss Igor Severyanin and Ego-Futurism

We were thinking of a follow-up Fedorov meeting but suddenly the poll results (take us both ways!) suggested a different topic.

"Ego-Futurism" is often thought of as an eclectic amalgam of styles, a label Igor Severyanin, a poet of glamour, affluence and "trending hashtags", assigned to himself just for the sake of bearing a label. We'll share an alternative view. While admittedly being an follower, rather than an inventor, in his ways of expression, Igor presents a distinct, unlike-others approach to authenticity in his poetic stance that not only explains his overwhelming popularity in the years of WWI and the Revolution but also stays recognizable in his successors, including our contemporaries.

This meeting is UNTRANSLATED/translated on demand.

Champagne will unlikely be allowed at Peet's, but pineapples will be served with century-old newspaper headlines.