On February 24, 2022, attacks from a neighboring despot began on a free people and sovereign nation as the world watched in horror. We have learned that the Ukrainian people are brave and resilient—especially in times of war. In solidarity, a number of writers and artists have joined with Springhouse Journal to create this page for the rolling publication of Ukrainian literature—some written years ago, some written in response to the Crimean and separatist crises—in a multitude of voices that are currently writing nonstop to accurately record the events of this aggression. In particular, Maria Galina and Anna Halberstadt have been essential to this project. We start and continue with Ukrainian poets published in 2014 by SPR as well as current voices in support of Ukraine.
We also feature visual art projects as we christen this Ukraine Diary with Vitaly Komar’s “Clap with the Scales” from the Allegories of Justice series, 2014-2022.
To submit Ukrainian writing (we’re working with a group of translators) and/or English translations, or art projects, write ukrainesunflowers@gmail.com. Please include a short bio.
To donate to help those fighting in Ukraine, see here: razomforukraine.org and www.comebackalive.in.ua/uk/donate
Lilia Levin
Arkadii Dragomoshchenko
translated by Anna Halberstadt
Maria Galina
translated by Anna Halberstadt and Ainsley Morse
Oksana Gadzhiy
translated by Marina Eskin and Ian Ross Singleton
Olga Bragina
translated by Anna Krushelnitskaya
Igor Galynker
Serhiy Zhadan
translated by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin
Yuliya Musakovska
translated by Dmitry Manin, Mariya Gusev, Elena Kakwani, and Elena Mikhailik
Igor Lapinsky
translated from Russian by Alex Cigale
Regina Derieva
translated by J. Kates
Lida Yusupova
translated by Joyce Lim
Boris Khersonsky
translated by Dale Hobson, Ruth Hinkle Kreuze, and Anna Halberstadt
Lyudmila Khersonskaya
translated by Anna Halberstadt
Victor Solodchuk
translated by Anna Halberstadt
Ostap Slyvynsky
translated by Vitaly Chernetsky
We are grateful to Maria Galina, a poet and writer who has for years worked around the world getting to know the voices of contemporary Ukrainian poets, and who inspired this project.
To Anna Halberstadt, poet, writer, translator, who reached out to Ukrainian poets and to translators and editors, to help translate the wartime poems into English, post, and publish them.
To poets and translators and publishers who reached out to others, shared their translations, and offered to work on new ones:
Ostap Kin, Ian Probstein, Gali-Dana Singer, Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Ainsley Morse, Nina Kossman, Anya Krushelnitskaya, Olga Bragina, Victor Solodchuk, Mariya Deikute, Sergei Starkowski, Ina-Ross Singleton, Marina Eskin, Elena Mikhailik, Olha Dolzhenko, Polina Barskova, Boris Khersonsky, Lyudmila Khersonska, Halyna Kruk, Sergei Starkowski, Ostap Slyvynsky, Yuliya Musakovska, R. B. Lemberg, Simon Patlis, Alexander Kabanov, Lida Yusupovo, Daryna Gladun, Dmitri Manin, Ian Ross,and so many others impossible to list (but we will try in coming iterations).
Springhouse Journal stands with peoples of all countries who oppose this war. Special thanks to Marc Jaffee and Kevin Romoser.