Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 elicited international outrage, but the war has been going on since 2014. Lyudmyla Khersonsky has written and spoken publicly about the suffering of Ukrainians from the start. In the last few months, Lyudmyla began to write about the war on a daily basis and with immense urgency. Arrowsmith Press will publish her 2022 poems in English translation by Maya Chhabra, Lev Fridman, Andrew Janco, and Olga Livshin in 2023.
Olga Livshin on "Hide Under the Blanket and Pull It Over Your Head" |
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Remembering James Longenbach at Rochester
“'In his brilliance and generosity of mind, his breadth of understanding, and in the vital beauty of his writing, he intensified the conversations between poets, critics, and ordinary readers of poetry in America in a way that was hard to match,' says Kenneth Gross, the Alan F. Hilfiker Distinguished Professor of English at Rochester."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jeevika Verma on Reginald Dwayne Betts' Felon
"He claims the label prison gives him—felon—and says, look, I did make mistakes, and now I am dealing with the consequences. But look, also, at how we lend ourselves to the system. How we dehumanize the incarcerated man. How every time he tries to love, we remind him of when he didn’t—'What name for / this thing that haunts, this thing we become.'" |
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