Ukraine: Artists and Writers

Poetry by Danyil Zadorozhnyi

From The Paris Review, March 24, 2022.

From Brooklyn Rail, brief interview profiles with seven Ukrainian cultural workers.

From the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Video from Friday, March 4, 2022. As Ukraine faces a fight the likes of which it hasn’t seen since WWII, writers across the US joined by their Ukrainian colleagues will read in solidarity with all Ukrainian people. Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, Jennifer Haigh, Richard Ford, Ha Jin, Carolyn Forche and others will be accompanied by Ukrainian authors including Serhiy Zhadan, Victoria Amelina, Halyna Kruk, and Ostap Slyvynsky. Julia Fiedorczuk will join from Poland. The reading is organized in cooperation with Askold Melnyczuk, Jennifer Haigh, and Oksana Lutsyshyna.

From the New Statesman: Lyuba Yakimchuk is a poet, screenwriter and playwright. She was born in 1985 in Pervomaisk, in the Luhansk oblast, and currently lives in Kyiv. She is the author of several poetry collections, including “Apricots of Donbas”, which is about people surviving a war; the collection received the International Poetic Award of the Kovalev Foundation in the US.

Ilya Kaminsky on his viral poem “We Lived Happily During the War” and Ukrainian resistance. On Wednesday, March 16 at 7:00 pm, Poetry At Bennington will host an evening with Ilya Kaminsky. More info at https://www.bennington.edu/events/ilya-kaminsky

Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched a sophisticated misinformation campaign alongside his invasion of Ukraine. If you want objective visual reporting, here are the best verified photographers on the frontlines of the war. From The Art Newspaper.