Sunday 3 November / Poetry Reading & Book Signing with Oksana Maksymchuk
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About the Book
The poems in this debut English-language collection meditate on the changing sense of reality, temporality, mortality, and intimacy in the face of a catastrophic event. While some of the poems have been composed in the months preceding the full-scale invasion of the poet’s homeland, others have emerged in its wake. Navigating between a chronicle, a chorus, and a collage, Still City reflects the lived experiences of liminality with urgency and intensity, offering different perspectives on the war and its aftermath. The collection engages a wide range of sources, including social media posts, news reports, witness accounts, recorded oral histories, photographs, drone video footage, intercepted communications, official documents, and songs, making sense of the transformations that war affects in individuals, families, and communities. Now ecstatic, now cathartic, these poems shine a light on survival, mourning, and hope through moments of terror and awe.
About the Poet
Oksana Maksymchuk is a bilingual Ukrainian-American poet, scholar, and literary translator. Oksana’s poems appeared in The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Paris Review, PN Review, The Poetry Review, and many other journals. Her work has been featured on BBC Radio 3, CBC Radio, The Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and TEDx, among other venues. Oksana holds a PhD in philosophy from Northwestern University. Born and raised in Lviv, Ukraine, she has also lived in Chicago, Philadelphia, Budapest, Berlin, Warsaw, and Fayetteville, Arkansas.