Halyna Kruk (Lviv, Ukraine): Words in a State of Emergency? On Writing During and Against War. Reading and Conversation with Stefania Ptashnyk
Is it possible to write poems about the horrors of war? Is it even possible? "War is not a metaphor," says Ukrainian poet Halyna Kruk.
She relentlessly responds to the Russian invasion with the spoken and written word - through publications, readings, various multimedia projects.
Her stirring speech at the Berlin Poetry Festival 2022 about the war in her homeland...

I, Halyna Kravets, a Master’s student at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, had the privilege in 2025 to participate in the “Japanese-Language Program for Overseas Students (Undergraduate/Graduate)”, organized by the Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute, Kansai.
The program lasted 44 days, from July 8 to August 20. Within this relatively short period, I was able to considerably deepen my knowledge of Japanese culture and society, while also achieving greater fluency and confidence in spoken Japanese.
At the beginning of the program, participants...

 
The new book Ukraine 2024. Voices and Images published by the Croatian P.E.N. Center is an extraordinary poetic testimony to more than a thousand days and nights of resistance of the Ukrainian people against Russian aggression. This anthology, translated from Ukrainian and edited by Alla Tatarenko, brings together the voices of twenty-five contemporary Ukrainian poets of all generations, from the most famous to new names. Among them are Galina Kruk, Ostap Slivinsky, Ija Kiva, Katerina Mikhaljitsina, Artur Dronj, Viktorija Amelina...