Olga Livshin
@battlecake.bsky.social
Poetry, Ukraine, fuzzy dog, teaching kids/teens creative writing. Work in progress: a poetry collection about war called Battle Cake. Pubs: New York Times, Ploughshares, Poetry.
I am so honored that my poem "Deadbeat Gods" found a home in The Southern Review, a dream journal. Thank you to Jessica Faust, an insightful editor. @southernreview.bsky.social 🇺🇦
May 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I am so honored that my poem "Deadbeat Gods" found a home in The Southern Review, a dream journal. Thank you to Jessica Faust, an insightful editor. @southernreview.bsky.social 🇺🇦
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"What we need today is a new theory of poetics—an alarming one, a wake-up call. Today we need catapoetry."
#catapoetics #catapoetry
#catapoem #catastrocene
#catapoetics #catapoetry
#catapoem #catastrocene
April 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
"What we need today is a new theory of poetics—an alarming one, a wake-up call. Today we need catapoetry."
#catapoetics #catapoetry
#catapoem #catastrocene
#catapoetics #catapoetry
#catapoem #catastrocene
Here is my poem in Poetry Magazine. Odesa is still being bombed every day, as are other cities in Ukraine. Please consider donating to… (thread)
April 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Here is my poem in Poetry Magazine. Odesa is still being bombed every day, as are other cities in Ukraine. Please consider donating to… (thread)
Reposted by Olga Livshin
in the latter days
of a corrupt world
cherry blossoms
Issa
of a corrupt world
cherry blossoms
Issa
April 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
in the latter days
of a corrupt world
cherry blossoms
Issa
of a corrupt world
cherry blossoms
Issa
Reposted by Olga Livshin
So excited about these events coming up in April! You can register for tomorrow’s virtual reading here:
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April 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
So excited about these events coming up in April! You can register for tomorrow’s virtual reading here:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
So excited about these events coming up in April! You can register for tomorrow’s virtual reading here:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
April 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
So excited about these events coming up in April! You can register for tomorrow’s virtual reading here:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Thank you again to Pedestal Magazine for publishing my poem “2023.” Here, I read it. thepedestalmagazine.com/olga-livshin...
March 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Thank you again to Pedestal Magazine for publishing my poem “2023.” Here, I read it. thepedestalmagazine.com/olga-livshin...
Thank you to Pedestal Magazine for including my poem "2023" in their issue 95.5. I am trying something new today; here is a video of me reading this poem in Ukrainian translation. I've been translating my poems with the kind help of Natalya Faryna and this poem is about wars...
March 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Thank you to Pedestal Magazine for including my poem "2023" in their issue 95.5. I am trying something new today; here is a video of me reading this poem in Ukrainian translation. I've been translating my poems with the kind help of Natalya Faryna and this poem is about wars...
What language, imagery, and literary traditions help speak the unsayable? How does the multilingual Ukrainian diaspora speak? What can we do as poets, writers, essayists, and translators to bridge, connect, and heal? Come join us to discuss these questions at AWP 2025!
March 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
What language, imagery, and literary traditions help speak the unsayable? How does the multilingual Ukrainian diaspora speak? What can we do as poets, writers, essayists, and translators to bridge, connect, and heal? Come join us to discuss these questions at AWP 2025!
Friends are asking how they might help Ukraine at this awful time. Here are a few reliable ideas: small orgs, people I know. Civic society. It's still here. (Thread...)
March 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Friends are asking how they might help Ukraine at this awful time. Here are a few reliable ideas: small orgs, people I know. Civic society. It's still here. (Thread...)
Trump is losing some of his supporters over the meeting with Zelensky today. As he should.
March 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Trump is losing some of his supporters over the meeting with Zelensky today. As he should.
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I admire Zelenskyy. You don’t have to agree with someone on everything to admire courage in the face of the everyday. Find me *anything* to admire about Putin or Trump or Vance. Go on, name it. Apologists for genocide, tape, and criminality, now go on. All of you. #StandwithUiraine
February 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I admire Zelenskyy. You don’t have to agree with someone on everything to admire courage in the face of the everyday. Find me *anything* to admire about Putin or Trump or Vance. Go on, name it. Apologists for genocide, tape, and criminality, now go on. All of you. #StandwithUiraine
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when the encyclopedia hates you
Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
🧵⬇️
February 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
when the encyclopedia hates you
If he fits, he sits.
February 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
If he fits, he sits.
:) And not this I and not here
February 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
:) And not this I and not here
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Spent the afternoon listening to teenagers reading poetry at a regional Poetry Outloud competition. Rural and suburban and city kids. Black and brown and white kids. LGBTQ kids. Disabled kids. A great escape but also a great reminder: this is what we’re working for. These kids — they’re the stakes.
February 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Spent the afternoon listening to teenagers reading poetry at a regional Poetry Outloud competition. Rural and suburban and city kids. Black and brown and white kids. LGBTQ kids. Disabled kids. A great escape but also a great reminder: this is what we’re working for. These kids — they’re the stakes.
Well, I thought my poetry collection about Trump 1.0 (and American xenophobia 0.0 and passim) would fade away. But here we are again. And the protests... are also back--from LA high schoolers to Democratic senators in DC. No doubt, the poems will come, too. Here is one of mine, from A LIFE REPLACED.
February 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Well, I thought my poetry collection about Trump 1.0 (and American xenophobia 0.0 and passim) would fade away. But here we are again. And the protests... are also back--from LA high schoolers to Democratic senators in DC. No doubt, the poems will come, too. Here is one of mine, from A LIFE REPLACED.
Feeling proud 🎉 Teenage author rewriting the myth of Icarus
January 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Feeling proud 🎉 Teenage author rewriting the myth of Icarus
10-year-old author, out of nowhere: “If clocks are the eyes of time, what was there before clocks were invented?”
Me: ???!!! Oh! Does it say in Catlantis that clocks are the eyes of time?”
“Yes. So what eyes did time have before clocks?”
Me …
Author: “Oh! I know. There must have been coconuts.”
Me: ???!!! Oh! Does it say in Catlantis that clocks are the eyes of time?”
“Yes. So what eyes did time have before clocks?”
Me …
Author: “Oh! I know. There must have been coconuts.”
January 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
10-year-old author, out of nowhere: “If clocks are the eyes of time, what was there before clocks were invented?”
Me: ???!!! Oh! Does it say in Catlantis that clocks are the eyes of time?”
“Yes. So what eyes did time have before clocks?”
Me …
Author: “Oh! I know. There must have been coconuts.”
Me: ???!!! Oh! Does it say in Catlantis that clocks are the eyes of time?”
“Yes. So what eyes did time have before clocks?”
Me …
Author: “Oh! I know. There must have been coconuts.”
Thanks so much to the Mid-Atlantic Review and Gregory Luce for publishing four of my poems. Here's one--for Odesa.
January 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Thanks so much to the Mid-Atlantic Review and Gregory Luce for publishing four of my poems. Here's one--for Odesa.
