And yet evil exists: a Crisis of Love and writing through War
Conversation with Marci Shore and Iya Kiva with poetry readings
Reception to follow.
Iya Kiva (b. 1984) is a Ukrainian poet and translator. Born and raised in Donetsk, she fled the war in 2014 and settled in Kyiv. There she began to shift from writing in her native Russian to writing in Ukrainian. She is the author of two volumes of poetry and the recipient of numerous awards for her poetry and translation. This autumn of 2023 she spent as a fellow at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. A bilingual collection of Iya’s poetry, translated by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk is forthcoming with Harvard University Press.
The format will be a combination bi/multilingual poetry reading and a conversation with Marci Shore about the existence of evil, the problem of responsibility, the crisis of love and the meaning of writing in the midst of war–as the rest of the world goes about business as usual.
Some links to her poetry in English translation:
https://lithub.com/war-plants-paper-flowers-new-ukrainian-poetry-by-iya-…
https://lithub.com/february-get-the-ink-and-weep-contemporary-poetry-fro…
https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/ukrainian-poems-of-war-khersonsk…
https://www.thewhitereview.org/poetry/four-poems-iya-kiva/