Voznesensky

There’s a Russian rock opera about their story, based on a poem by one of Russia’s “big three” modern poets, Andrei Voznesensky.

In 1965, he and more than a dozen other poets from around the world, including Mr. Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Michael Horovitz and Andrei Voznesensky, read their work at the International Poetry Incarnation, which filled Royal Albert Hall in London.

And, she said, “he brought over the great Russian poets Yevtushenko and Voznesensky, and he worked with them to get Russian dissidents released from prison.”

Meanwhile, several missiles have hit the port city of Odesa, with four explosions heard in the Voznesensky district.

Kennedy began their conversation that day by asking Ginsberg a very un-senatorial question: which of two Russian poets, Andrei Voznesensky or Yevgeny Yevtushenko, he preferred.