Poetry International Web features poets from Ukraine

PARSIPPANY, N.J. - Poetry International Web-Ukraine is an English-text site, with poetry in the original and in English translation, which serves to promote Ukrainian poetry worldwide. The editor for PIW-Ukraine is Kateryna Botanova; the site may be accessed at: http://ukraine.poetryinternational.org.

PIW-Ukraine offers personal pages/sites of such leading contemporary Ukrainian poets, writers, and essayists as Yuri Andrukhovych, Natalka Bilotserkivets, Andriy Bondar, Halyna Krouk, Oleh Lysheha, Ivan Malkovych, Mykola Ryabchuk, Oksana Zabuzhko and Serhiy Zhadan.

The May issue of PIW-Ukraine featured Vasyl Makhno, a Ukrainian émigré poet and translator who has been living in New York since 2000, as "poet of the month." The site on Mr. Makhno includes nine of his poems as translated by Richard Burns, Vitaly Chernetsky, Kristina Lucenko and Michael M. Naydan; as well as Prof. Naydan's note as translator; an interview with the poet by Ms. Botanova; a bibliography; and website links, including interviews with the poet in Ukrainian, Polish and Serbian publications.

The next issue of PIW-Ukraine will appear in August. To receive PIW-Ukraine news, e-mail [email protected].

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, June 12, 2005, No. 24, Vol. LXXIII

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