Trafika Europe 7 - Ukrainian Prayer

Editor’s Welcome

10 Finally, a new installment of Trafika Europe Corner on the sister site Ohio Edit features four poems by Ukrainian poet, prose writer and journalist Oleh Kotsarev.

To explore contemporary Ukrainian literature further, you can find a plethora of resources online and among recent publications, for example at the website http:// ukrainianliterature.org/ , curated by Maxim Tarnawsky. Thefollowinganthologiesarealsoorwill beavailablesoon: Herstories: An Anthology of Ukrainian Women’s Prose (Glagoslav Publishers, 2014) and Mark Andryczyk’s The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series: An Anthology, the first of three anticipated volumes forthcoming with Academic Studies Press. Glagoslav Publishers of London and Amsterdam has been particularly active in publishing contemporary Ukrainian authors in English translation. For a more extensive sampling of poets of the last twenty-five years, check out the Fall 2010 special issue of International Poetry Review dedicated to Ukrainian poetry (volume XXXVII number 2). To read

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