In the Hour of War: Poems from Ukraine

“This is the silence before the explosion, between volleys of rifle fire, the silence of foreboding, of fear and insomnia, and the silence of complicity. The poems were written in the hour of war, in the lyrics of passing through fire….” So write the editors, two of America’s most significant poets, Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky, in their introduction.
Ukraine may be the only country on earth that owes its existence, at least in...

These poems were originally published in Italian translation by Alessandro Achilli and Yarina Grusha Possamai in the anthology Poeti d’Ucraina, Mondadori 2022, Pina Piccolo’s translation is based on their Italian version.

STOPPING THE FALL
Stopping the fall
for three carefree days in Rimini
where in the Piazza dell’Agnolo’s fountain you
still
launch paper boats of hopes
but they never return…
 
 
WOMAN WITH A LOBSTER HEAD
Woman with the head of a lobster
and the body of a jellyfish,
why do you say in this incomprehensible language Read more »

Transpoesie festival closing event with eight European poets: Lea NAGY (Hungary), Stina INGA (Sweden — Sápmi), Rannvá HOLM MORTENSEN (Faroe Islands), Halyna KRUK (Ukraine), Teele LEMBER (Estonia), Raquel SEREJO MARTINS (Portugal), Saara HERMANSSON (Sweden — Sápmi) and Katharina WENTY (Austria). Moderator: Vanessa Daniëls and Philip Meersman.

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The 13th edition of the international poetry festival is back in full force with fresh voices, focusing on architecture, environment and decolonisation

Transpoesie 2023: Take Back the Stage celebrates the unique relationship between poetry, nature and architecture, creating living environments that inspire and ignite the imagination highliting as well the unique, seductive, and evocative creations of the Art Nouveau period in a very special way.
This year Transpoesie will amplify female voices in European poetry in joining the celebration of Art Nouveau in Brussels, adding their own poetic angle to it. We are creating a series of...

The Danylo Husar Struk Programme
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
University of Alberta
announces
the Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture

Prof. Olena Haleta
Lviv University &
Ukrainian Catholic University

Visiting Prof.
Harvard University

To Be (With) the Other: Sophia Yablonska’s Travelogues as Modernist Auto-narrative

Friday, May 12, 2023, 3:00 PM (EST)

http://sites.utoronto.ca/elul/Struk-mem/lect-2023.html

Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoKqLRfwmlA