This list of Ukrainian poetry was compiled by Dr. Olena Haleta, Ukrainian poet and professor at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv / Ukrainian Catholic University. Dr. Haleta delivered a lecture at CREECA in the spring of 2023. A recording of her lecture, “A War Vocabulary: Traumatic Experience and the Search for a New Language in Ukrainian Literature after 2014,” is available for listening on the CREECA podcast.
Image photographed by Dr. Olena Haleta.
Poetry
Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine
The White Chalk of Days: The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Anthology
“Untitled”, A Ukrainian Poem by Halyna Kruk, Translated by R.B. Lemberg
“The Wolf Hour”, a Ukrainian poem written and translated into English by Ela Yevtushenko
Poems for Roman, Svitlana Povalyaeva
Letters from Ukraine: Poetry Anthology (56 Authors)
“How much water to the end of this war?”: a collection of poems by Kateryna Yehorushkina
Programs and Projects
The Mushrooms of Donbas, Serhiy Zhadan (and Zoom Poetry Program Meeting)
Ostap Slyvynsky, A War Vocabulary project
Essays
Voices from Kharkiv: Short Essays by Anastasia Afanasieva, Oleksandr Khodakivsky, Andrii Krasniashchykh, Al Panteliat, Victor Shepelev and Oksana Yefimenko