Spotted at Harvard today. Not great at all at how this nazi is being mainstreamed and normalized. This shit is absolutely not welcomed here. Used water from my water bottle to erase part of it.

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor... Great piece by UCSB historian @gperrone.bsky.social

A follow-up conversation with Dov-Ber Kerler after our panel on "Yiddish as a Ukrainian language". Thanks to David Fishman for publishing our thoughts on his substack! @marcishore.bsky.social @kyivindependent.com #ukraine #yiddish

Thanks for sharing, @timothysnyder.bsky.social! It was an honor to at the # Kyiv Book Arsenal with @marcishore.bsky.social, who co-curated this year's focus theme -- Everything is Translation.

The 13th Kyiv Book Arsenal was a celebration of literature and humanity. I was so honored to be there.

This video is begging for something. Will you please do the honors, @sarahcpr.bsky.social? @marcishore.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNAY...

My dear friend’s niece, who in October developed sepsis when a Georgia hospital refused her a D&C after a miscarriage, will be taken off life support tomorrow. I don’t know the names of the countless others who have suffered and will suffered because of anti-abortion laws. But her name was Haley.

"When you’re sitting in a chair, wires hooked up to your body, in some sense everything is simple. You are an enemy, and opposite you are your enemies." @stanislavaseyev.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social @marcishore.bsky.social @meanwhileua.bsky.social

This angers me so deeply. The monolingualist know-nothings are on the attack.

Happy to share the latest issue of the Slavic Review, featuring a piece I wrote with Paige Lee on the Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Archive, ukrpoetry.org. Thanks to all who contributed to this forum -- Lyudmila Parts, @globalrhizome.bsky.social, Rory Finnin, Stephanie Sandler, Harriet Murav.

Irresistible reposting of our response from Kyiv to Tucker Carlson's fawning over the Russian grocery store. @aglaser.bsky.social

I have a big birthday coming up at the end of the month. If you have any inclination to buy me a drink, please donate to United24 instead. @timothysnyder.bsky.social and @sierakowski.bsky.social are raising funds toward an armored evacuation vehicle for Ukraine.

Tom Friedman on point here, though he understated the case. Either Trump is the worse negotiator in all the universes of truth and fiction, or he is beginning an alliance with Russia with a joint attempt to subjugate Ukraine (and then much else). www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

Marci Shore on Ukraine and America, on reality and unreality, and the lethal price we can make others pay for our own lies to ourselves. @marcishore.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhEi...

Jfc youtu.be/atoiSQucAEM?...

"The front is devouring my heart and my comrades. devouring all my words and considers what's left of my body." Yaryna Chornohuz reads a poem from the trenches. Literally.

This poem by Ostap Slyvynsky says everything we need to know right now. With thanks to @timothysnyder.bsky.social for publishing it on this third anniversary of an inhuman invasion. snyder.substack.com/p/what-war-is

A moving poem by the talented Yaryna Chornohuz, who is currently on the front.

People are asking how my friends and colleagues in Ukraine are doing. Here is a moving piece by Olga Rudenko that gives some sense of the mood in Kyiv. Friends -- please do all you can to support Ukraine's resistance to an illegal invasion. Ukrainians are bravely holding up democracy for us all.

We've collected our articles and videos to help you understand why Zelensky's legitimacy is being questioned and how that plays into Russia's hands.

“For his part, Musk claims that he purchased Trump outright by spending nearly $300 million on his 2024 campaign.” - @borowitzreport.bsky.social

Very happy to share this article, coauthored with Paige Lee, on our ongoing project to document Ukrainian poetry. Thanks to those who joined this forum, and to those who have advised us on the archive. @aseees.bsky.social @marcishore.bsky.social @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social @globalrhizome.bsky.social

Yuliya Ilchuk and I will be talking with the good people at the Griffin Poetry Prize about Ukrainian poetry and our co-translation process on February 19. All are welcome!

The @nytimes.com these days is mostly important and depressing, but this piece by @caity.bsky.social is just good writing. Ate it up like a big bag of gummies. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/m...

A week ago Rina Sutzkever, the daughter of Avrom Sutzkever, passed away. She was Sutzkever’s second child; the first was murdered in the Vilna Ghetto immediately after being born. Rina gave me permission to translate her father’s work and this poem, “Toys” is the first translation I ever completed.

A poem by Maria Galina in Ainsley Morse's translation in today's NYRB. This punched me in the gut. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Very excited for our upcoming performance in Milwaukee. Wisconsinites, I hope to see you there! @mordkhetzvi.bsky.social @joelberkowitz.bsky.social

"Written poetry occupies a more significant place in the cultural grammar of these Yiddish speakers than it does in that of modern America." A good piece on the very much alive Yiddish spoken and written in the US. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/o...

In pride of place in @londonreview.bsky.social bookshop, Artur Dron', 'We Were Here', translated from the Ukrainian by Yuliya Musakovska, published by @jantarbooks.bsky.social

Thrilled to share that a bilingual edition of Iya Kiva's poems, in Yuliya Ilchuk and my translations, are forthcoming this Spring with Harvard's HURI series. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

"when you call from the war birds are chirping so the world still exists" www.casafernandopessoa.pt/en/cfp/lisbo... Just discovered Ricardo Marques' Portuguese translations of Halyna Kruk, via my and Yuliya Ilchuk's English.

Just came over from the dark side. When I think of something to say, it will probably be about poetry, translation, Ukraine, Yiddish, or a combination of the above.