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Arrowsmith Press publishes poetry, prose, works of translation, memoir, and a series of online columns. Support the literary world by checking out our website!
We must share these powerful words from Oleksandra Matviichuk, co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and head of Ukraine’s Centre for Civil Liberties, delivered at the UA-MED Heal Ukraine 2025 Conference at Harvard University (November 7–8, 2025).

#UAMED #HealUkraine #UkrainianHealthcare
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 AM
What an incredible night at the Arrowsmith Press Fall 2025 Book Launch! 💫

Huge thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate poetry and community with us at Boston University’s Katzenberg Center.

We’re so grateful to Tadeusz Dąbrowski, Bruce Smith, and Wang Jiaxin for sharing their works.
October 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
📚 Fall Launch at Boston University! 🍂

Huge thanks to the prestigious authors joining us for their readings, insight, and inspiration. We’re honored to celebrate another season of powerful literature and new voices with our friends, readers, and the BU community.
October 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
📢 This Thursday! 📢
The Fall 2025 Book Launch is almost here. Don’t miss an evening with Bruce Smith (Hungry Ghost), Wang Jiaxin (At the Same Time), and Tadeusz Dąbrowski (The Scent of Man).

🗓 Thursday, October 23 @ 7pm EST
📍 BU Katzenberg Center OR 💻 join online

#PoetryEvent #BookLaunch
October 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Join us for the Fall 2025 Book Launch featuring Bruce Smith, Wang Jiaxin, and Tadeusz Dąbrowski

📍 Katzenberg Center, 871 Commonwealth Ave
🗓️ Thursday, October 23rd at 7 PM EST

Attend in person or online!

#BookLaunch #PoetryEvent #BruceSmith #WangJiaxin #TadeuszDąbrowski
October 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Who Owns Our Imagination?
Written by Askold Melnyczuk

Who tells the best stories, and what happens when business, politics, and technology start deciding for us?

www.arrowsmithpress.com/.../who-owns...
#AskoldMelnyczuk #ArrowsmithPress #WhoOwnsOurImagination #TheHumanities
October 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
@ChytomoE describes #YuliyaMusakovska's #Ukrainian poetry collection “The God of Freedom” as having an "intellectual discipline [that] sets it apart":
chytomo.com/en/foxes-bir...

Find the book here, translated from Ukrainian by Olena Jennings and the author: www.arrowsmithpress.com/order/p/the-...
September 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Read poet #ThomasOGrady 's review in #NixesMate for his latest collection "Coming Ashore":

"When Thomas O’Grady is not coloring the world and palpating its air with wings, he is reckoning the deep breath of music..."
nixesmate.pub/issue-34-35-...

The book: www.arrowsmithpress.com/thomas-ogrady
September 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A review of @jo-ann.bsky.social's first poetry collection, A Precise Chaos, in @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social:
www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/a-preci...
"Mort repeat­ed­ly asks ques­tions about poet­ry, about Jew­ish iden­ti­ty, and about who we are..."
The book: www.arrowsmithpress.com/jo-ann-mort
September 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
In June, the late #Ukrainian writer and public figure #VictoriaAmelina won the #OrwellPrize for political writing for “Looking at Women Looking at War,” the book she was unable to finish before a Russian missile killed her.
Read more about her story here: chytomo.com/en/victoria-...
September 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
With your morning coffee: a poem by Askold Melnyczuk from The Venus of Odessa
"I imagine
somewhere beyond the tree
that house, the solitary, careful
child within,
and the dragonflies
rising and falling like pistons..."
voxpopulisphere.com/2025/06/14/a...
The book: askoldmelnyczuk.net/books/the-ve...
September 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Spring Arrowsmith poet and journalist @jo-ann.bsky.social reflects on her 30-year hiatus from poetry to focus on journalism -- and what it took to publish her first collection at 69.
Read her story here:
www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/how...
Explore her book: www.arrowsmithpress.com/jo-ann-mort
August 31, 2025 at 3:45 PM
In @lithub.com.web.brid.gy, #AskoldMelnyczuk explores the moral questions posed to us in the face of war, and remembers #VictoriaAmelina:

"Just how deep is my love? Would I be willing to die defending this place? Could I imagine killing to protect it?"

lithub.com/nothing-is-p...

#UkraineWar
August 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
An impeccable review from @ninamaclaughlin.bsky.social on #AskoldMelnyczuk's forthcoming collection of poems that span fifty years -- The Venus of Odesa.

Find Melnyczuk's book here, from Madhat Press: madhat-press.com/products/the...

#ukrainianwriter #Ukraine️ #author #Odesa #poet
June 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Julia Juster, Managing Editor of Arrowsmith Journal, has a brilliant essay in Quarterly West's recent Issue 114!

Read it at: www.quarterlywest.com/issue-114-ju...

#essay #horses #burrows #America #grief
June 6, 2025 at 12:09 AM
An excerpt, “Swimming in Odesa,” from Ariel Rosé's forthcoming book, Ukraine—A Polyphony: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/2025...

The fourth chapter is devoted to a field trip with PEN Ukraine to libraries and schools in the Odesa region in February 2025.

#Ukraine #Odesa
June 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
“Crooked Runs the World” by Marjana Savka – a report from Lviv after Zelensky’s White House visit, translated by Oksana Lutsyshyna: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/croo... #russia #Ukraine
June 4, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Are photographs contexts for the nurturing of solidarity, or are they forms of socially acceptable voyeurism?

Read “Preface to the Ukrainian Edition of Regarding the Pain of Others” by David Rieff for his thoughts: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/ukra...

#photography #war
June 4, 2025 at 1:52 AM
“The Long Forgetting: An American Origin Story Retold” by Judith Nies — the essential element omitted from America’s origin story is the role of money, who made it, where, and how: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/long...
June 1, 2025 at 4:49 AM
“Word Pictures” by Jacki Lyden – the author and radio host encounters her memoir drawn daily by another artist: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/word...
May 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Featured Poets in Arrowsmith Journal Volume XXX: Ellen Hinsey and Madeline Gilmore introduced by Alexandra Kamerling and Askold Melnyczuk: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/feat...

#poetry #poets #poems
May 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Featured Fiction: Louis Harnett O’Meara — “Old Friends,” a short story: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/feat...

Read all pieces in Arrowsmith Journal Volume XXX: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/cate... #fiction #nonfiction #poetry
May 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
“Cradle to grave in the digital age, we are constant fodder for corporate profits.” —Dan Hunter in “The Door is Open: Death in the Digital Age”: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/grie...

#digitalage #ai #grief #tech
May 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Five poems in honor of Antonella Anedda’s forthcoming book (FSG, 2026), translated by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/wint...
May 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“How is it that we Jews may exempt other Jews from moral scrutiny?” —Philip G. Alcabes in “Gaza and the Jewish People” for the latest Arrowsmith Journal XXX: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/gaza...

#gaza #litjournal #literaryjournal #writers
May 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM