A Humanitarian Aid Kit of War Songs: Iya Kiva & Halyna Kruk (May 20, 2022)

A reading and discussion with Ukrainian poets Iya Kiva and Halyna Kruk, moderated by Amelia Glaser. Poems are read in the original and in English translation.
Iya Kiva is a poet, translator, and journalist. She was born in Donetsk, and fled the war in 2014 to settle in Kyiv. Shortly after arriving she began shifting from writing in her native Russian to writing in her second language, Ukrainian. She is the author of two volumes of poetry, and the recipient of numerous awards for her poetry and translation.
Halyna Kruk is a poet, translator, and Medieval literature professor at Lviv State University. She has been recognized as a significant voice in Ukrainian poetry since her twenties. She has published five collected volumes of poetry and two volumes of prose fiction. Her children’s fiction has been rendered into fifteen languages. She has won numerous Ukrainian and European awards for her writing.
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Slavic Department, the Davis Center Seminar in Literature and Culture, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and PEN America, with additional support from the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute, Arrowsmith Press, and the MIT Center for International Studies. Recorded on May 20, 2022, in Byerly Hall, Radcliffe Yard, Harvard University.