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Writing from Ukraine

February–June 2022

Conservation Kseniya Fuchs Ali Kinsella

A watercolor of a middle-aged woman from the shoulders up

An image from Igort's "The Story of Serafima Andreyevna," translated by Jamie Richards.

Voices from Ukraine: A Reading List

By the Editors of Words Without Borders

While some of this writing engages directly with the country’s history of armed conflict with Russia, the majority addresses more quotidian themes.

A black-and-white image of battered market kiosks

Photo copyright © Kseniya Fuchs

Conservation

By Kseniya Fuchs

I knew I was born here and I would die here.

Translated from Ukrainian by Ali Kinsella

Until the Threads Burn to Ash

By Aleksey Porvin

Hold an assault rifle with my hand, use my mouth

Translated from Russian by Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler

There’s No Getting Out

By Olga Bragina

we won’t recognize this city anymore

Translated from Russian by Elina Alter

Multilingual

Crow, Wheels

By Lyuba Yakimchuk

Joyful relatives poured vodka for themselves / and for the dead

Translated from Ukrainian by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky

MultimediaMultilingual

February 23, 2022

By Danyil Zadorozhnyi

“second time I’ve lost my home,” she utters with hatred / “officially, this time”

Translated from Ukrainian by Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler & Yuliya Charnyshova

Chernobyl Poems

By Lina Kostenko

On the banks of the Prypiat a devil is sleeping

Translated from Ukrainian by Uilleam Blacker

The Lights of the Donbas

By Danyil Zadorozhnyi

then there’s the war / that flabby, shriveled, animal word “war”

Translated from Russian by Yuliya Charnyshova & Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler