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War. Poetry. Translation. A Reading and Discussion by the Ukrainian-American Poet, Translator, and Activist Olga Livshin

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures; Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center; The Program in Jewish Culture & Society
Location
223 Gregory Hall (810 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801)
Date
Sep 30, 2024   5:00 pm  
Speaker
Olga Livshin
Cost
Free and open to the public.
Contact
David Cooper
E-Mail
dlcoop@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Russian, E. European & Eurasian Center: Co-sponsored Events

Olga Livshin’s work is recently published in the New York Times, Ploughshares, The Rumpus, and other journals, and is forthcoming from POETRY magazine. She is the author of the poetry collection A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman (2019). Livshin co-translated Today is a Different War by the Ukrainian poet Lyudmyla Khersonska (Arrowsmith Press, 2023) and A Man Only Needs a Room by Vladimir Gandelsman (New Meridian Arts, 2022). In the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Livshin co-organized “Voices for Ukraine: A Words Together Words Apart Reading,” a massive online reading of Ukrainian poets and their translators attended by over 800 people. As a consulting poetry editor for Mukoli: A Journal for Peace, she reviews poetry from conflict-affected communities across the world. 

This event is cosponsored by the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and The Program in Jewish Culture & Society.

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