Poetry
Events
Poetry as Theatre:
Oleh Lysheha's Swan
Poetry reading of "How Fire Descends" Book by Serhiy Zhadan
Read by translators from Ukrainian
Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps
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Book Launch
Poetry by Olena Jennings, Vasyl Makhno, Virlana Tkacz and Christina Turczyn read by the poets to celebrate book releases.
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Poetry
Poetry in Shows & Events
Serhiy Zhadan
Serhiy Zhadan's poems have been part of the show 1917-2017: Tychyna, Zhadan & the Dogs, Radio 477 and Yara's poetry events since 2002.
READ Zhadan's poems in English
and about the poet
Oleh Lysheha
Oleh Lysheha's poetry has been part of the shows Virtual Souls, Swan, Raven and Dream Bridge, as well as Yara's poetry events since 1992.
Watch videos
READ Lysheha's poems in English
and about the poet
Taras Shevchenko
Taras Shevchenko's poetry has been part of the shows A Light From the East and Dark Night, Bright Stars, as well as Yara's poetry events since 1990.
READ Shevcheko's poems in English
and about the poet.
Wanda Phipps
Wanda Phipps's poetry has been part of the shows Blind Sight and Yara's Forest Song, as well as Yara's poetry events since 1990.
SEE Wanda Phipps' mindhoney website
Pavlo Tychyna
Pavlo Tychyna's poetry has been part of the shows A Light From the East and 1917-2017: Tychyna, Zhadan & the Dogs and GAZ, as well as Yara's poetry events since 1990.
READ Tychyna's poems in English
and about the poet.
Oksana Zabuzhko
Oksana Zabuzhko's poetry has been part of the shows Explosions and Scythian Stones, as well as Yara's poetry events since 1992.
READ Zabuzhko's poems in English
and about the poet.
Lesia Ukrainka
Lesia Ukrainka's verse play "Forest Song" has been part of the shows Yara's Forest Song, Fire Water Night, Virtual Forest Song and A Thousand Suns, as well as Yara's poetry events since 1990.
Watch videos
READ excerpts from Forest Song in English and about the poet.
Zhadan & Friends
Zhadan & Prose 2021
Virtual Event: Serhiy Zhadan reads from "Orphanage" in Ukrainian & his translateors Reilly Costigan-Humes & Isaac Wheeler read their translationsns Julian Kytasty plays bandura to images by Evgeniy Maloletka/Waldemart Klyuzko. Maria Genkin moderates and interviews Zhadan. program
Zhadan & Friends 2018
Zhadan & Friends Read and React to His Book "Mesopotamia" April, 2018
Ukrainian Museum New York
Jenkintown, PA
PEN World Voices Festival
"Cry, The Beloved Country" | photos
"Life During Wartime" | photos
St George Academy
University of Kansas
Read more about the book Mesopotamia
Zhadan's Friends 2022
Live Event: Yara actors read translations by Virlana Tkacz & Wanda Phipps from Serhiy Zhadan's newest poems which he will publish in Ukrainian only in 2023), while Anthony Coleamn & Julian Kytasty play.
Susan Hwang sings "Aviation 58"
Zhadan & Jazz 2021
Serhiy Zhadan reads his poems from "Psalm to Aviation, Bob Holman & Yara actors read translaitons by Virlaan Tkacz & Wanda Phipps, while Anthony Coleman & Fima Chupakhin play.
Zhadan & Poetry 2021
Virtual Event: Serhiy Zhadan reads from "Psalm to Aviation" & American poets Dzvinia Orlowsky, Askold Melnyczuk, Wanda Phipps, Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler and Olena Jennings react to his poems with their own poems in English. program
Susan Hwang sings "Aviation 58"
Zhadan & Poets 2020
Virtual Event: Zhadan read his poetry in Ukrainian, while American poets Dzvinia Orlowsky, Wanda Phipps, Isaac Wheeler and Olena Jennings reacted to them with their own poems in English. program
viirtual event
Zhadan & Poetry 2019
04/13/2019
Poetry from "What We Live For/ What We Die For: Selected Poems" by Serhiy Zhadan, translated from the Ukrainian by Virlana Tkacz & Wanda Phipps read in Ukrainian & English, while Jazz pianists Anthony Coleman & Fima Chakhin play
Read more about the book, What We Live For, What We Die For
