Vasyl Makhno was born in 1964 and has written about war from a distance since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Now, in NYC, he writes verses for a war gone from hybrid to total. Show more
Hybrid war came to Ukraine in 2014. Its poets grew a new language from this reality, now it is total war. Editor Oksana Maksymchuk, fled from Lviv, introduces some of those voices. Show more
Boris and Ludmila Khersonsky fled Odesa in late March. Both leading poets, Boris from from the days of Samizdat. For Ludmila, the war from 2014 forced poets to remaster language. Show more
Lyuba Yakimchuk grew up near Luhansk in the 1990s. Hybrid war forced her to move to Kyiv. Now war has blown her and her family to Vienna, from where she relates her experience. Show more
Oksana Lutsyshyna is an award-winning writer, translator, and literary scholar. She draws on the legacy of Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and English language writers. Show more