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"Words for War: A Reading and Discussion of Contemporary Ukrainian War Poetry," New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest, May 21, 2026.
"Reading and Conversation," Internationales Lyriktreffen Münster , Münster, July 4, 2026.
RECENT Readings, Roundtable Discussions & Workshops
"Tagebuch einer Invasion: In Conversation with Matthias Kniep & Marie Schmidt," Lyrik Kabinett, Munich, April 15, 2026.
"Translation Talks: In Conversation with Jeffrey Yang," Griffin Poetry Prize, February 23, 2026.
"Reading and Conversation with Ubaldo López García, Irma Pineda, and Michael Schmidt," Biblioteca Francisco de Burgoa, Oaxaca, Mexico, January 21, 2026.
"Names on the Maps: Poetry Reading and Conversation with Oksana Lutsyshyna and Marko Pavlyshyn," The University of Melbourne, May 8, 2025.
"Still City: In Conversation with Lauris Veips," Washington University, St. Louis, March 3, 2025.
"Still City: Book Launch and Reading with Lauris Veips," Left Bank Books, St. Louis, March 2, 2025.
"Still City: In Conversation with Alex Averbuch," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 27, 2025.
"Still City: In Conversation with Leeya Mehta," The Alan Cheuse International Writer's Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, February 24, 2025.
"Still City: In Conversation with Pauline Rowe," Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, November 26, 2024.
"Still City: In Conversation with Moya Cannon," Books Upstairs, Dublin, November 20, 2024.
"Still City: In Conversation with Hugh Roberts," Bookbag, Exeter, November 3, 2024.
"Poetry and War: In Conversation with Sasha Dugdale," University of Oxford, October 31, 2024.
"Poetry Showcase," Pipeline, Brighton, October 29, 2024.
"Still City: In Conversation with Boriana Aleksandrova," University of York, October 21, 2024.
"Words for War: In Conversation with Sibelan Forrester," Swarthmore College, September 23, 2024.
"Models of Creativity: Community, Collaboration, Mentorship, AI" International Meeting of Translators of Ukrainian Literature, Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin, August 27, 2024.
"Words for War: Agency, Authority & Community," Central European University, Budapest, July, 2024.
"Poetry and Memory: Reading and Conversation with Marianna Kiyanovska," Haus für Poesie, Berlin, July 16, 2024.
Still City Book Launch, hosted over Zoom by Sasha Dudale and Carcanet Press, June 12, 2024.
"Ukrainian Narratives of War and Occupation," Cultures of Incarceration Centre, University of Hull, May 8, 2024.
"Poetry and Resistance: Reading and Discussion," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 9, 2023.
"Writing War: Reading and Discussion," University of Chicago, Chicago, October 4, 2023.
Poetry Reading with Yara Arts Group and Olena Jennings, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago, August 26, 2023.
Bristol Translates, School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol, July 6, 2023.
Poetry Reading, Litteratur på Blå, Oslo, May 2, 2023.
"In the Hour of War: Reading and Discussion," The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures with the Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, April 6, 2023.
Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference and Book fair, Seattle, Washington, March 10, 2023.
"Voices of Ukraine: Translation and Belonging" with Yuliya Komska. Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, November 10, 2022.
"The War in Ukraine" with Lydia Khalil and Max Rosochinsky. Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Bali, October 30, 2022.
"The Human Experience of Conflict" with Giuseppe Catozzella, Michael Vatikiotis, and Max Rosochinsky. Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Bali, Indonesia, October 28, 2022.
"Beacon of Hope: Refugee Stories" with Natalie D-Napoleon, Hassan Al Nawwab, and Max Rosochinsky. Writing Western Australia/UWR Festival, Perth, Australia, October 23, 2022.
"Contemporary Poetry from Ukraine," Nottingham Trent University, England, April 2022.
“Translation and Creativity,” Baruch College, New York, USA, April 2022.
Atlanta Online International Festival, with Ilya Kaminsky, Boris and Lyudmyla Khersonsky, Diane Seuss, Jenny Xie, Lyuba Yakimchuk, and Javier Zamora, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA, January 2022.
Book Discussion: "The Voices of Babyn Yar by Marianna Kiyanovska," Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies Annual Convention (ASEEES), 53rd Convention, New Orleans, USA, November 2021.
“Intimacy and Distance in the Pandemic,” Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, March 2021.
“Contemporary Ukrainian Poets,” ASEEES, 52nd Annual Convention, November 2020.
“War, Literature, and Ethics – a Debate,” with Jasmina Lukic, Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Max Rosochinsky, and Andrea Tompa, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, November 2019.
“Translating the Holocaust Experience in the 21st Century,” with Marianna Kiyanovska, Maria Galina, and Ganna Gnedkova, Book Forum Lviv, Ukraine, September 2019.
“The Unsafe Territory: Dislocation and Loss in Poetry About War,” University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, March 2019.
“Words for War: Introduction to Contemporary Ukrainian War Poetry,” Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA, March 2019.
“Five Iterations of Osip Mandelstam’s “Black Soil,” Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, March 2019.
