Poetry From the Ukraine: Live Reading

In collaboration with Ukrainian poets, we’re supporting the continued struggle in Ukraine with a special night of poetry featuring David Acosta, Sibelan Forrester, Sean Hanrahan, Olga Livshin, Lynn Levin, and Warren C. Longmire. Poets will read from the featured books (Today is a Different War by Lyu
dmyla Khersonska, In the Hour of War edited by Carolyn Forche and Ilya Kaminsky, and A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails by Halyna Kruk) and their own work. Book bundles will be sold at the event on online, with all profits donated to Ukraine TrustChain.

Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

Julia Kolchinsky Dashbach is the author of three poetry collections: 40 WEEKS, Don’t Touch the Bones, winner of the 2019 Idaho Poetry Prize, and The Many Names for Mother, winner the Wick Poetry Prize and finalist for the Jewish Book Award. She is currently working on a poetry collection as well as a book of linked lyric essays, both of which grapple with raising a neurodiverse child with a disabled partner under the shadow of the war in Ukraine, Julia’s birthplace.

Virtual Poetry Reading: Queer Poetics, Gala Mukomolova, Alina Pleskova, Galina Rymbu

Queer Poetics From the former Soviet Union https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83944818819?pwd=WlY2UkxGY0dyemNPSHgzczA1eXdWQT09 Meeting ID: 839 4481 8819, Passcode: 717435 Gala Mukomolova is a Moscow-born, Brooklyn-raised, poet and essayist. Her full length poetry collection, Without Protection, is available through Coffee House Press. Her chapbook, One Above One Below: Positions & Lamentations, is available with YesYes Books. She is a recipient of the …

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