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Translation is latent in the form and subject matter of Kiva’s work. Born in Ukraine’s largely Russophone Donbas in 1984, Kiva has embedded translation in her poetry as a metaphor for the process of understanding her own, and her country’s, diverse...

Autobiographical and searching, these poems extend the moment beyond the visible and the current, navigating the blackouts of meaning in the land’s rich, troubled history: the pogroms, the bloodsheds, ethnic cleansings and population exchanges, the state...

The history of “Ukrainian Harvard” began even before Pri­tsak’s arrival in the United States. As early as 1953, at a meeting at Columbia University, the Federation of Ukrainian Student Organizations of America was formed, bringing together more than 600...

The war in Ukraine is the latest chapter in the more than century-long disintegration of the Russian Empire and Russian efforts to arrest and reverse that process. During the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks managed to unite under...

Translation is latent in the form and subject matter of Kiva’s work. Born in Ukraine’s largely Russophone Donbas in 1984, Kiva has embedded translation in her poetry as a metaphor for the process of understanding her own, and her country’s, diverse...