Nikola Yurtsaba (Nicole Yurcaba)
@nyurtsaba.bsky.social
#poet #professor #bookreviewer #Hutsul #Lemko Слава Україні! Все буде Україна!
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November 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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A short and not very sweet indictment of the world's feckless cowards.
A reflection about some foreign comments on the recent Ukrainian corruption scandal andreasumland.substack.com/p/psychomora...
Psychomoral Vagaries of Ukraine-Bashing
A reflection about some foreign comments on the recent Ukrainian corruption scandal
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November 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A short and not very sweet indictment of the world's feckless cowards.
My review of Emilia Hart's breathtaking novel THE SIRENS, published by @stmartinspress.bsky.social, has published at The Los Angeles Review: losangelesreview.org/the-sirens-b.... I cannot recommend this novel enough.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
My review of Emilia Hart's breathtaking novel THE SIRENS, published by @stmartinspress.bsky.social, has published at The Los Angeles Review: losangelesreview.org/the-sirens-b.... I cannot recommend this novel enough.
So proud to see two of my poems forthcoming in the upcoming issue of @thebelfastreview.bsky.social!
New fiction, essays, poetry, photography, and plays - keep an eye out for Issue 5 (Winter/Spring 2026) launching 7th December. Plus original custom artwork as a special bonus.
Can’t wait to share this with our readers, contributors and fans!
Can’t wait to share this with our readers, contributors and fans!
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
So proud to see two of my poems forthcoming in the upcoming issue of @thebelfastreview.bsky.social!
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Hello friends of NAFO! Do you have a Ukraine related patch collection? Share a picture of your patch collection down below! Everyone loves to see it!
November 6, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Hello friends of NAFO! Do you have a Ukraine related patch collection? Share a picture of your patch collection down below! Everyone loves to see it!
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Thanks a lot for all your support to the Star Battalion of the 22 Mechanized Brigade to get what they need @sudetsoleil.bsky.social 💫💙💛
November 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Thanks a lot for all your support to the Star Battalion of the 22 Mechanized Brigade to get what they need @sudetsoleil.bsky.social 💫💙💛
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"Rossi’s practiced, expository style unearths the roots of eugenics in the United States."
Max Gray's review of “Capturing Kahanamoku” by Michael Rossi (@harperonebooks.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/29/a...
Max Gray's review of “Capturing Kahanamoku” by Michael Rossi (@harperonebooks.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/29/a...
An Unexpected History: "Capturing Kahanamoku" by Michael Rossi - Chicago Review of Books
Human history is full of popular ideas that have gone on to be debunked. The earth used to be the center of the universe. Doctors once smoked in the exam room and didn’t bother washing their hands. Bu...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"Rossi’s practiced, expository style unearths the roots of eugenics in the United States."
Max Gray's review of “Capturing Kahanamoku” by Michael Rossi (@harperonebooks.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/29/a...
Max Gray's review of “Capturing Kahanamoku” by Michael Rossi (@harperonebooks.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/29/a...
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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
My poem "It is Apple-Picking Season & You Cannot Help" appears in the Halloween issue of @newversereview.bsky.social! I am so honored the editors chose this poem: www.newversereview.com/issue-2-4--H...
Please read this haunting (in the best way) issue!
Please read this haunting (in the best way) issue!
New Verse Review Halloween 2025 Issue
Poems by Marly Youmans, Katie Hartsock, Vince Gotera, Meredith Bergmann, Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, Helena Feder, John Poch, Jared Carter, and others
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October 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
My poem "It is Apple-Picking Season & You Cannot Help" appears in the Halloween issue of @newversereview.bsky.social! I am so honored the editors chose this poem: www.newversereview.com/issue-2-4--H...
Please read this haunting (in the best way) issue!
Please read this haunting (in the best way) issue!
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Schedule for September 29-October 5
Monday-Friday
Constitution Ave NE and Delaware Ave NE by Russell Senate Office Building 4-7pm
Saturday and Sunday
Lafayette Park 5-7pm
🇺🇸🇺🇦
Call your members of Congress and demand the USA resumes military aid to Ukraine.
#CrimeaIsUkraine
Monday-Friday
Constitution Ave NE and Delaware Ave NE by Russell Senate Office Building 4-7pm
Saturday and Sunday
Lafayette Park 5-7pm
🇺🇸🇺🇦
Call your members of Congress and demand the USA resumes military aid to Ukraine.
#CrimeaIsUkraine
September 28, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Schedule for September 29-October 5
Monday-Friday
Constitution Ave NE and Delaware Ave NE by Russell Senate Office Building 4-7pm
Saturday and Sunday
Lafayette Park 5-7pm
🇺🇸🇺🇦
Call your members of Congress and demand the USA resumes military aid to Ukraine.
#CrimeaIsUkraine
Monday-Friday
Constitution Ave NE and Delaware Ave NE by Russell Senate Office Building 4-7pm
Saturday and Sunday
Lafayette Park 5-7pm
🇺🇸🇺🇦
Call your members of Congress and demand the USA resumes military aid to Ukraine.
#CrimeaIsUkraine
My poem "No One Has Calculated the Half-Life of Grief" has published at
@apricotpress.bsky.social
: apricotpress.co.uk/2025/09/24/n.... If you're so inclined, there's a tip jar. :)
A huge thank-you to Apricot for selecting this poem!
@apricotpress.bsky.social
: apricotpress.co.uk/2025/09/24/n.... If you're so inclined, there's a tip jar. :)
A huge thank-you to Apricot for selecting this poem!
No One Has Calculated the Half-Life of Grief
Nicole Yurcaba’s haunting poem explores how grief can leave us struggling to change.
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September 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
My poem "No One Has Calculated the Half-Life of Grief" has published at
@apricotpress.bsky.social
: apricotpress.co.uk/2025/09/24/n.... If you're so inclined, there's a tip jar. :)
A huge thank-you to Apricot for selecting this poem!
@apricotpress.bsky.social
: apricotpress.co.uk/2025/09/24/n.... If you're so inclined, there's a tip jar. :)
A huge thank-you to Apricot for selecting this poem!
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If you're in the Harrisonburg, Bridgewater, Charlottesville (Virginia) area, I hope you'll come see my reading at Bridgewater College on 16 September 2025 @ 7 PM in Bowman Hall! I'll be reading from THE PALE GOTH & I'll read about 🇺🇦!
September 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
If you're in the Harrisonburg, Bridgewater, Charlottesville (Virginia) area, I hope you'll come see my reading at Bridgewater College on 16 September 2025 @ 7 PM in Bowman Hall! I'll be reading from THE PALE GOTH & I'll read about 🇺🇦!
If you're in the Harrisonburg, Bridgewater, Charlottesville (Virginia) area, I hope you'll come see my reading at Bridgewater College on 16 September 2025 @ 7 PM in Bowman Hall! I'll be reading from THE PALE GOTH & I'll read about 🇺🇦!
September 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
If you're in the Harrisonburg, Bridgewater, Charlottesville (Virginia) area, I hope you'll come see my reading at Bridgewater College on 16 September 2025 @ 7 PM in Bowman Hall! I'll be reading from THE PALE GOTH & I'll read about 🇺🇦!
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❗️explosions in Sumy and Poltava regains reported earlier ❗️drone attack
September 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
❗️explosions in Sumy and Poltava regains reported earlier ❗️drone attack
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Next site, artworks by Ukrainian artist Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky (Василь Григорович Кричевський). He was born in what would become Kharkiv Oblast in 1873. He was a designer of the 1918 Ukrainian coat of arms, state seals, and banknotes.
#StandWithUkraine
#СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦🌻
#StandWithUkraine
#СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦🌻
September 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Next site, artworks by Ukrainian artist Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky (Василь Григорович Кричевський). He was born in what would become Kharkiv Oblast in 1873. He was a designer of the 1918 Ukrainian coat of arms, state seals, and banknotes.
#StandWithUkraine
#СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦🌻
#StandWithUkraine
#СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦🌻
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Just $2 (or more!) can help the 72nd Brigade in #Ukraine save lives with excavators and crane trucks. Please help if you can. Every dollar counts. 💛🇺🇦💛
It’s #ToonieTuesday!
🪖𝗟𝗲𝘁'𝘀 𝗗𝗶𝗴 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽🪖
This week we are supporting @teoyaomiquu.bsky.social with his new fundraiser for 𝟮 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗮𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝗸 for the 𝟳𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗮𝗱𝗲, known as the 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘡𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘻𝘩𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴.
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This week we are supporting @teoyaomiquu.bsky.social with his new fundraiser for 𝟮 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗮𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝗸 for the 𝟳𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗮𝗱𝗲, known as the 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘡𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘻𝘩𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴.
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September 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Just $2 (or more!) can help the 72nd Brigade in #Ukraine save lives with excavators and crane trucks. Please help if you can. Every dollar counts. 💛🇺🇦💛
Доброй рано! Such exciting news this morning. My review of
Andrey Kurkov's OUR DAILY WAR has published at
@neweasterneurope.eu!
I hope you'll read it and Andrei's book! Once again, I am grateful to the editors of NEE for selecting my review for publication.
neweasterneurope.eu/2025/09/02/l...
Andrey Kurkov's OUR DAILY WAR has published at
@neweasterneurope.eu!
I hope you'll read it and Andrei's book! Once again, I am grateful to the editors of NEE for selecting my review for publication.
neweasterneurope.eu/2025/09/02/l...
Looking forward to victory – but focused on daily life: a review of Andrey Kurkov’s Our Daily War - New Eastern Europe
Our Daily War adeptly tackles the identity issues that emerged for Ukrainians since 2014, when Russia began tearing Ukraine apart.
neweasterneurope.eu
September 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Доброй рано! Such exciting news this morning. My review of
Andrey Kurkov's OUR DAILY WAR has published at
@neweasterneurope.eu!
I hope you'll read it and Andrei's book! Once again, I am grateful to the editors of NEE for selecting my review for publication.
neweasterneurope.eu/2025/09/02/l...
Andrey Kurkov's OUR DAILY WAR has published at
@neweasterneurope.eu!
I hope you'll read it and Andrei's book! Once again, I am grateful to the editors of NEE for selecting my review for publication.
neweasterneurope.eu/2025/09/02/l...
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#OtD 1 Sep 1939 the first fighting of WWII in Europe took place. 56 post office workers in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) took up arms to repel the Nazi takeover. After 15 hours, the surviving workers surrendered. They were tried as bandits and executed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8158...
September 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
#OtD 1 Sep 1939 the first fighting of WWII in Europe took place. 56 post office workers in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) took up arms to repel the Nazi takeover. After 15 hours, the surviving workers surrendered. They were tried as bandits and executed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8158...
My review of Andrew Lipstein's novel SOMETHING ROTTEN, which I consider to be 2025's best novel, has published at The Los Angeles Review: losangelesreview.org/something-ro...
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September 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
My review of Andrew Lipstein's novel SOMETHING ROTTEN, which I consider to be 2025's best novel, has published at The Los Angeles Review: losangelesreview.org/something-ro...
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Live your life in such a way that you don’t give a shit about the Cracker Barrel logo.
August 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Live your life in such a way that you don’t give a shit about the Cracker Barrel logo.
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"A story of self-reflection and self-reclamation, as well as an exploration of the human connections and fulfillments one can find in places one never thought imaginable."
@nyurtsaba.bsky.social reviews A DOG IN GEORGIA by Lauren Grodstein. @algonquinbooks.bsky.social
@nyurtsaba.bsky.social reviews A DOG IN GEORGIA by Lauren Grodstein. @algonquinbooks.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
"A story of self-reflection and self-reclamation, as well as an exploration of the human connections and fulfillments one can find in places one never thought imaginable."
@nyurtsaba.bsky.social reviews A DOG IN GEORGIA by Lauren Grodstein. @algonquinbooks.bsky.social
@nyurtsaba.bsky.social reviews A DOG IN GEORGIA by Lauren Grodstein. @algonquinbooks.bsky.social
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Villagers struggle to make sense of their darkening world. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/s... @groveatlantic.bsky.social @nyurtsaba.bsky.social #booksky
August 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Villagers struggle to make sense of their darkening world. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/s... @groveatlantic.bsky.social @nyurtsaba.bsky.social #booksky
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Thank you, @nyurtsaba.bsky.social, for this very thoughtful & politically attuned review of Wolf Bells. (I love the Dark Shadows comparison, too!) #socialistgothic @algonquinbooks.bsky.social
My review of @lenizumas.bsky.social's stunning novel WOLF BELLS, published by @algonquinbooks.bsky.social, has published at University of Leicester's EVERYBODY'S REVIEWING! everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2025/08/revi...
Be sure to add this novel to your TBR stacks. It is a must-read!
Be sure to add this novel to your TBR stacks. It is a must-read!
Review by Nicole Yurcaba of "Wolf Bells" by Leni Zumas
Leni Zumas’s novel Wolf Bells publishes in September 2025 in the United States, and, honestly, with the current socio-political dysfunction...
everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com
August 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Thank you, @nyurtsaba.bsky.social, for this very thoughtful & politically attuned review of Wolf Bells. (I love the Dark Shadows comparison, too!) #socialistgothic @algonquinbooks.bsky.social
My review of @lenizumas.bsky.social's stunning novel WOLF BELLS, published by @algonquinbooks.bsky.social, has published at University of Leicester's EVERYBODY'S REVIEWING! everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2025/08/revi...
Be sure to add this novel to your TBR stacks. It is a must-read!
Be sure to add this novel to your TBR stacks. It is a must-read!
Review by Nicole Yurcaba of "Wolf Bells" by Leni Zumas
Leni Zumas’s novel Wolf Bells publishes in September 2025 in the United States, and, honestly, with the current socio-political dysfunction...
everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com
August 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
My review of @lenizumas.bsky.social's stunning novel WOLF BELLS, published by @algonquinbooks.bsky.social, has published at University of Leicester's EVERYBODY'S REVIEWING! everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2025/08/revi...
Be sure to add this novel to your TBR stacks. It is a must-read!
Be sure to add this novel to your TBR stacks. It is a must-read!