Anton Yakovlev’s poetry collection One Night We Will No Longer Bear the Ocean was published in 2024 by Redacted Books, an imprint of ELJ Editions. His chapbook Chronos Dines Alone (SurVision Books, 2018) won the James Tate Poetry Prize. The Last Poet of the Village, a book of translations of poetry by Sergei Yesenin, came out from Sensitive Skin Books in 2019. Yakovlev is also the author of Ordinary Impalers (Kelsay Books, 2017) and two prior chapbooks: The Ghost of Grant Wood (Finishing Line Press, 2015) and Neptune Court (The Operating System, 2015). Originally from Moscow, Russia, Anton is a graduate of Harvard University and a former education director at Bowery Poetry Club.

Books

One Night We Will No Longer Bear the Ocean (ELJ Editions, 2024)
The Last Poet of the Village (Sensitive Skin Books, 2019)
Chronos Dines Alone (SurVision Books, 2018)
Ordinary Impalers (Kelsay Books, 2017)
The Ghost of Grant Wood (Finishing Line Press, 2015)
Neptune Court (The Operating System, 2015)

Poems Online

“Postwar,” Poetry Daily
“The Exorcism,” The New Yorker
“California,” The Hopkins Review
“Regret,” Plume
“The Informant,” The New Criterion
“The Submarine,” Amarillo Bay
“Song,” The Nervous Breakdown
“So Much to Say,” The New Criterion
“Ask Anyone,” Breadcrumbs
“Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy,” The Café Review
“Effigyville,” Pangyrus
“Shelter,” Pangyrus
“Prelude,” “The Cedar Creek,” “Everything Thrown Out Except for Their Eyes,” Posit
“For Here There Is No Place,” Sensitive Skin
“Even As We Seize the Day,” Better Than Starbucks
“White Whale,” The Hopkins Review
“Cat of Death,” The Paddock Review
“Another Word for Exile,” SurVision Magazine
“The Fear Machine,” “When You Said Goodbye to Her,” UCity Review

Anthologies

Outer Space: 100 Poems (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
From the Inside: NYC through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here (Blue Light Press, 2022)
The Powow River Poets Anthology II (Able Muse Press, 2021)
Phantom Kangaroo: The Anthology (Phantom Kangaroo, 2021)
Paper Teller Diorama (Great Weather for Media, 2021)
Epiphanies and Late Realizations of Love (Transcendent Zero Press, 2019)
Sensitive Skin: Selected Writing: 2016-2018 (Sensitive Skin Books, 2019)
Resist Much / Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017)
The Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker (Great Weather for Media, 2016)
The Best of the Raintown Review (Barefoot Muse Press, 2015)

Honors

James Tate Poetry Prize, First Prize: 2018

Interviews

“Inside Neptune Court with Anton Yakovlev,” Huffington Post
”[re:con]versations :: Digging Deeper with NEPTUNE COURT's Anton Yakovlev,” The Operating System

Poetry Films

“The Line Between Our Lanes,” a film by Swoon based on a poem by Anton Yakovlev
“In Memoriam,” a film by Marie Craven based on a poem by Anton Yakovlev
“Smile,” a film by Othniel Smith based on a poem by Anton Yakovlev
“Zach’s Maple Sugaring Book,” a film by Anton Yakovlev based on a poem by Pamela Bailey Powers

Readings

Book Launch for One Night We Will No Longer Bear the Ocean (June 2024)
Calling All Poets (Kingston NY, November 2023)
Poetry Salon of Boston (May 2022)
Malvern Books, Austin TX (December 2017)
“Song” with Concetta Abbate on violin (Teaneck NJ, 2015)
“Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” with Concetta Abbate on violin (Teaneck NJ, 2015)
“The Cupcakes of Newburyport” with Concetta Abbate on violin (Teaneck NJ, 2015)
“The Ghost of Grant Wood” with Concetta Abbate on violin (Teaneck NJ, 2015)
“Encore” with Concetta Abbate on violin (Teaneck NJ, 2015)