An Evening with Ukrainian Poet Lyuba Yakimchuk

300 West 21st Street,Austin TX 78712

01 November, 2022

Description

As part of the Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry Series, Lyuba Yakimchuk will read from her book, Apricots of Donbas. A book signing and reception will follow the program. Seating is limited, please RSVP. Please note that a reservation does not guarantee a seat. Seats not claimed by 4:50 p.m. may be released. Doors open | 4:30 p.m. Program | 5 p.m., Prothro Theater, Ransom Center Book signing and reception | 6 p.m., Ransom Center Co-sponsored with the UT Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lyuba Yakimchuk is a poet, dramatist, and scriptwriter born in 1985 in Pervomaisk, Luhansk region, and currently living in Kyiv, Ukraine. She is the author of several full-length poetry collections, including Apricots of Donbas, which received the International Poetic Award of the Kovalev Foundation (NYC, USA). This book was listed in the Top 10 books about the war in Forbes magazine, Ukraine. Her poems have been translated into more than twenty languages. She is also the celebrated author of two film scripts and two plays, and is the first poet performer at the Grammy Awards. In 2022 she performed her poem Prayer as part of the Free piece by John Legend dedicated to Ukraine. In 2015, Kyiv’s New Time magazine listed Yakimchuk among the one hundred most influential people in the arts in Ukraine. ABOUT THE DEAN F. ECHENBERG POETRY SERIES The Ransom Center is home to the Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry Collection that was started in the early 1970s by Echenberg, a flight surgeon during the Vietnam War who later became the director of disease control for the City of San Francisco during the first years of the AIDS crisis. Throughout history numerous writers have tried to capture their experiences of war in language, often turning to poetry for its ability to convey intensity of feeling and for its authenticity. The common thread that runs through the collection is poetry by people who have experienced war, combatants and noncombatants alike.