Nikola Yurtsaba (Nicole Yurcaba)
@nyurtsaba.bsky.social
#poet #professor #bookreviewer #Hutsul #Lemko Слава Україні! Все буде Україна!
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𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥 – #FiverFriday 𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗧𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄!🛩️
We’re soaring sky-high together, one FIVE at a time!
Tomorrow is your chance to turn the unseen into the unforgettable. Lift up a neglected or slow-moving fundraiser and help it take wing!
How to join the flight?
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#NAFO #Ukraine #FNDRUA
We’re soaring sky-high together, one FIVE at a time!
Tomorrow is your chance to turn the unseen into the unforgettable. Lift up a neglected or slow-moving fundraiser and help it take wing!
How to join the flight?
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#NAFO #Ukraine #FNDRUA
November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥 – #FiverFriday 𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗧𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄!🛩️
We’re soaring sky-high together, one FIVE at a time!
Tomorrow is your chance to turn the unseen into the unforgettable. Lift up a neglected or slow-moving fundraiser and help it take wing!
How to join the flight?
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#NAFO #Ukraine #FNDRUA
We’re soaring sky-high together, one FIVE at a time!
Tomorrow is your chance to turn the unseen into the unforgettable. Lift up a neglected or slow-moving fundraiser and help it take wing!
How to join the flight?
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#NAFO #Ukraine #FNDRUA
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🔴 Ukraine has named a Russian platoon commander as a suspect in the 2022 Bucha civilian killings—the first commander identified in the case.
Russian Officer First Ever Named by Ukrainian Prosecutors for Bucha Massacre
Ukraine has identified a Russian commander as a suspect in connection with the Bucha civilian killings, indicating progress in accountability efforts.
united24media.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
🔴 Ukraine has named a Russian platoon commander as a suspect in the 2022 Bucha civilian killings—the first commander identified in the case.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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The moment a missile struck a building in Ternopil.
November 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The moment a missile struck a building in Ternopil.
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👀🇺🇦🇺🇸 50 Ukrainians were deported from the US to Ukraine, – State Border Service of Ukraine.
We are talking about people without US citizenship. The reason for the deportation is still unknown.
We are talking about people without US citizenship. The reason for the deportation is still unknown.
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
👀🇺🇦🇺🇸 50 Ukrainians were deported from the US to Ukraine, – State Border Service of Ukraine.
We are talking about people without US citizenship. The reason for the deportation is still unknown.
We are talking about people without US citizenship. The reason for the deportation is still unknown.
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I have a poem shortlisted for pick of the month here…. Check the link to read it and the other finalists. Voting open to 6pm Wednesday, if you like one of the poems.
The October Pick of the Month vote is now live. Will you choose @rushikawick.bsky.social, @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social, David A. Lee, @sarahleavesley.bsky.social, @poet-pratibha1.bsky.social or @tadhgcarey.bsky.social? More at inksweatandtears.co.uk/october-2025...
#InkSweatandTears #PickoftheMonth
#InkSweatandTears #PickoftheMonth
November 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I have a poem shortlisted for pick of the month here…. Check the link to read it and the other finalists. Voting open to 6pm Wednesday, if you like one of the poems.
A couple of months ago, my poem "Death in Ukraine Has Become More Accessible than Salt"--a poem I penned in 2022, was published in Black Horse Review. Seems appropriate to share this today.
www.blackhorsereview.com/poetry/death...
www.blackhorsereview.com/poetry/death...
Death in Ukraine Has Become More Accessible than Salt - Nicole Yurcaba
The deathless are the dying, the dying are the deathless—one is living the other’s death, one is dying into the other’s life.—Heraclitis Andriy finds it in the marketplace, touches it with...
www.blackhorsereview.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
A couple of months ago, my poem "Death in Ukraine Has Become More Accessible than Salt"--a poem I penned in 2022, was published in Black Horse Review. Seems appropriate to share this today.
www.blackhorsereview.com/poetry/death...
www.blackhorsereview.com/poetry/death...
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🏁 #FiverFriday – Standing with #Ukraine! 🏁
Help them cross the finish line—every FIVE counts!
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✅Can't fiver, be their biggest cheerleader and spread the word
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Help them cross the finish line—every FIVE counts!
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November 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🏁 #FiverFriday – Standing with #Ukraine! 🏁
Help them cross the finish line—every FIVE counts!
✅Quote-repost this post with a 📷screenshot of your $5/€5/£5 donation
✅Add a quick description+🔗to their🦋handle
✅Drop it in the thread too!
✅Can't fiver, be their biggest cheerleader and spread the word
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Help them cross the finish line—every FIVE counts!
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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
andreasumland.substack.com
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.
losangelesreview.org
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...
chireviewofbooks.com
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
www.newversereview.com
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.
apricotpress.co.uk
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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🪖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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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...