MEDIA
"When a country of – overall – nice people," by Lyudmyla Khersonska. Read by Valzhyna Mort.
"He Came First Wearing a T-Shirt," by Aleksandr Kabanov. Read by John Hennessy.
"This Loneliness Could Have a Name," by Kateryna Kalytko. Read by Laynie Browne.
"Three Years Now We've Been Talking About the War," by Serhiy Zhadan. Read by Bob Holman.
"On Apollinaire," by Vasyl Makhno. Read by Ariel Resnikoff.
"Needle," by Serhiy Zhadan. Read by John Hennessy.
"Our platoon commander is a strange fellow," by Borys Humenyuk. Read by John Hennessy.
"Take Only What Is Most Important," by Serhiy Zhadan. Read by Bob Holman.
"Orpheus," by Ostap Slyvynsky. Read by Mark Yakich.
"Make Love," by Yuri Izdryk. Read by John Hennessy.
"Decomposition," by Lyuba Yakimchuk. Read by Polina Barskova.
"Their tissue is coarse, like veins in a petal," by Marianna Kiyanovska. Read by Mark Yakich.
"Eyebrows," by Lyuba Yakimchuk. Read by John Hennessy.
“War came to Ukraine in 2014. Its poets have been responding to it ever since.” Contributors to Words for War such as Lyuba Yakimchuk, Vasyl Makhno, Boris and Lyudmila Kershonsky, and Oksana Lutsyshyana, read poems and Essays. Aired on BBC Radio 3 - The Essay.
Learn more about Words for War and The White Chalk of Days, in addition to some of the poets and writers who have been speaking to the experience of war and shaping a literary identity in Ukraine, in Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment of the Humanities. The 2017 publication of both Words for War and The White Chalk of Days was made possible in part by a major grant from the Scholarly Editions and Translation program of the NEH.