Ukrainian Poetry at War: A Conversation and Reading with Lyuba Yakimchuk
Lyuba Yakimchuk, Poet, Playwright, and Screenwriter
Introduction: Jemma Paek, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Moderator: Bohdan Tokarskyi, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures (Ukrainian Literature and Culture), Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
This event will feature a reading and conversation with Lyuba Yakimchuk, an award-winning Ukrainian poet, screenwriter, and playwright. Yakimchuk’s widely acclaimed collection Apricots of Donbas was among the first to process and articulate Russia’s hybrid war against Ukraine when it broke out in 2014 and forced her family to flee their home in Eastern Ukraine.