Nikola Yurtsaba (Nicole Yurcaba)
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Nikola Yurtsaba (Nicole Yurcaba)
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#poet #professor #bookreviewer #Hutsul #Lemko Слава Україні! Все буде Україна!
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
Friends, be sure to grab a copy of the latest volume of Vogue Ukraine. It's filled with some wonderful translations of poetry and prose by Ukraine's foremost writers. It also has Ukrainian-language versions of these pieces!
July 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Keep reading #Ukrainian #literature! Ibidem Press has delivered yet another important book in its Ukrainian Voices series, Blair A. Ruble's third installment of THE ARTS OF WAR. Stand with Ukraine. Keep uplifting the Ukrainian story!
May 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Keep reading #Ukrainian #literature! Andrey Kurkov's THE STOLEN HEART, trans. by Boris Dralyuk, is now available from Harper Via! www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
May 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I'm so excited! My review copy of Felicity Spector's BREAD & WAR arrived today! You can get a copy here: www.duckworthbooks.co.uk/book/bread-a....
May 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Hey Virginia Friends & Fellas! I'll be signing copies of my poetry collection THE PALE GOTH at Patch Brewery in Gordonsville, VA on 4 May 2025! Stop by, say hi, grab a kindness mandala & maybe a book! I hope to meet you there.
April 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Keep reading #Ukrainian #literature! Be sure to add Oleksandr Mykhed's I WILL MIX YOUR BLOOD WITH COAL to your Ukraine-focused reading lists!
April 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Keep reading #Ukrainian #literature! Artem Chekh's ROCK, PAPER, GRENADE is now available from Seven Stories Press: sevenstories.com/books/4668-r....
April 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Keep reading #Ukrainian #literature. These titles--THE FARAWAY SKY OF KYIV and A KIND OF REFUGEE--are now available from Ibidem! www.ibidem.eu
March 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Let's keep reading #Ukrainian #literature! I MAKE JOKES WHEN I'M DEVASTATED by Luisa Muradyan is available from Bridwell Press: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/I/I-Ma...
March 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Keep reading #Ukrainian #literature. You can find Oleg Veretskiy's TALES OF THE WANDERING MISTS at @piercepress.bsky.social!
March 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The clowns in the Oval Orifice would not approve of my suit...
March 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Keep reading #Ukrainian #literature. Julia Kolchinsky's PARALLAX is now available: www.uapress.com/product/para.... Julia was born in Ukraine & her poetry is set against the backdrop of the war.
February 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Yaroslav Trofimov's NO COUNTRY FOR LOVE is now available. Let's Stand with Ukraine and keep reading #Ukrainian #literature! yarotrof.com/books/no-cou...
February 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Stand with Ukraine and keep supporting Ukrainian artists! This beautiful motanka gerdan is from @ukrainianart.bsky.social! You can find more Nadiia's artwork at www.etsy.com/shop/NadiiaJ....
February 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
My #poetry collection THE PALE GOTH is available from Alien Buddha Press, but if you'd like a signed/wax-stamped copy, please DM me for payment details. They are $20, and I ship worldwide!
February 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Finished the rather large #Ukrainian #embroidery I've worked on for six months. 💙💛 Now I'll be working on embroidering some small bookmarks that will bear traditional patterns.
January 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
My latest #Ukrainian embroidery patter. It has been six months since I began it. I've worked on it through my father's numerous illnesses, an emotionally manipulative break-up, and now my father's death. It holds many tears, prayers, hopes, dreams, and losses. I hope it brings you light. 🥰
January 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Keep reading #Ukrainian #literature! NARRATIVES OF THE RUSSO-UKRAINAIN WAR, published by Ibidem is now available: cup.columbia.edu/book/narrati.... #StandwithUkraine & keep uplifting Ukrainian voices.
January 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
In 2025, keep reading #Ukrainian #literature and #Ukraine-focused literature! Thanks, @fsgbooks.bsky.social, for the review copy of BY THE SECOND SPRING: SEVEN LIVES AND ONE YEAR OF THE WAR IN #UKRAINE.
January 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
My #poem "You are For Whom the Bell Tolls" published in Suburban Witchcraft Magazine, Issue 7: suburbanwitchcraft.com/issue7.
December 21, 2024 at 2:44 PM
If you're reading #Ukrainian #literature, be sure to add PHILIPOVNA: DAUGHTER OF SORROW to your reading stacks! www.amazon.ca/Philipovna-D... For those interested in #Holodomor, this is an especially important book.
December 15, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Keep reading #Ukrainian #literature! Here's another #poetry title to add to your reading lists: ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE IN NEW YORK by Olena Boryshpalets.
December 10, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Keep reading #Ukrainian #literature! THOSE ABSENCES NOW CLOSEST by Dzvinia Orlowsky is now available from The University of Chicago Press: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...!
November 30, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Interested in historical research and #Ukraine? Then join me & Tara Lynn Masih at the Fleming Island Library in Florida on 7 December, 10 AM to 12 PM. I'll be discussing the war in #Ukraine and writing #poetry in response to the war.
November 27, 2024 at 1:24 PM