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A Week with Zhadan (6)

A Week with Zhadan (6)

Serhiy Zhadan, reading in Kharkiv, March 21, 2022 Editor’s note: There are many ways to show solidarity with the people of Ukraine, and to stand for civilization, against barbarism. For the next seven days, we’ve decided to offer you a poem from Serhiy Zhadan, so that you will think of his words, . . .

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A Week with Zhadan (5)

A Week with Zhadan (5)

Serhiy Zhadan, reading in Kharkiv, March 21, 2022 Editor’s note: There are many ways to show solidarity with the people of Ukraine, and to stand for civilization, against barbarism. For the next seven days, we’ve decided to offer you a poem from Serhiy Zhadan, so that you will think of his words, . . .

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A Week with Zhadan (4)

A Week with Zhadan (4)

Serhiy Zhadan, reading in Kharkiv, March 21, 2022 Editor’s note: There are many ways to show solidarity with the people of Ukraine, and to stand for civilization, against barbarism. For the next seven days, we’ve decided to offer you a poem from Serhiy Zhadan, so that you will think of his words, . . .

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A Week with Zhadan (3)

A Week with Zhadan (3)

Serhiy Zhadan, reading in Kharkiv, March 21, 2022 Editor’s note: There are many ways to show solidarity with the people of Ukraine, and to stand for civilization, against barbarism. For the next seven days, we’ve decided to offer you a poem from Serhiy Zhadan, so that you will think of his words, . . .

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A Week with Zhadan (2)

A Week with Zhadan (2)

Serhiy Zhadan, reading in Kharkiv, March 21, 2022 Editor’s note: There are many ways to show solidarity with the people of Ukraine, and to stand for civilization, against barbarism. For the next seven days, we’ve decided to offer you a poem from Serhiy Zhadan, so that you will think of his words, . . .

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A Week with Zhadan (1)

A Week with Zhadan (1)

Serhiy Zhadan, reading in Kharkiv, March 21, 2022 Editor’s note: There are many ways to show solidarity with the people of Ukraine, and to stand for civilization, against barbarism. For the next seven days, we’ve decided to offer you a poem from Serhiy Zhadan, so that you will think of his words, . . .

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War Childhood

War Childhood

Logo of the War Childhood Museum, Sarajevo. Design: Anur Hadžiomerspahić. Used by permission You hear that girls pretend to be mothers and boys soldiers. What I see are children playing intensely and seriously at life; like puppies they exercise and train with every move they make. Wars drag them from one place to . . .

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10 Questions for Sarah E. Vaughn

10 Questions for Sarah E. Vaughn

Some people speak of living through a climate crisis. Others simply go about their business as if nothing is happening. Both groups of people have more in common than they would let on, and the climate crisis might well inspire either to tell stories about events they would prefer to never experience . . .

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10 Questions for Lisa Olstein

10 Questions for Lisa Olstein

In one chemical future, the clouds themselves will be extinct, so we try to hold them in mind as they float by casting their individual storm-sized shadows across the animals across the plains.—from “Glacier Haibun,” Volume 62, Issue 4 (Winter 2021) Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.I started . . .

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10 Questions for Xavier Navarro Aquino

10 Questions for Xavier Navarro Aquino

Abuela doesn’t want to die. She’s still holding on to life for the stubbornness of it. And on one of the worst days to head down the mountainside, Ma and Pa decided to drag Diego and me to see her.—from “A Death Foretold,” Volume 62, Issue 4 (Winter 2021) Tell us about . . .

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