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

Event Type
Performance
Sponsor
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Location
223 Gregory Hall
Date
Sep 30, 2024   5:00 pm  
Speaker
Olga Livshyn
Contact
David Cooper
E-Mail
dlcoop@illinois.edu
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Slavic 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 withTranslations 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.

Cosponsored by REEEC and Jewish Studies.

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