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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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)

So excited about these events coming up in April! You can register for tomorrow’s virtual reading here:
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Thank you again to Pedestal Magazine for publishing my poem “2023.” Here, I read it. thepedestalmagazine.com/olga-livshin...

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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!

If he fits, he sits.

:) And not this I and not here

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

Thanks so much to the Mid-Atlantic Review and Gregory Luce for publishing four of my poems. Here's one--for Odesa.

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