Poetry. Winner of the US Library of Congress' 2001 Witter Bynner Poetry Fellowship, Katia Kapovich is a bilingual poet writing in English and Russian. While GOGOL IN ROME is published in English, Kapovich's Russian verse has received wide acclaim in her country of origin. That Katia Kapovich "offers a rare view of a poet's daily life in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia only adds to the broader significance of her writing. GOGOL IN ROME is a powerful gathering of her best work in English" - Billy Collins.