The commemoration of World War II and the Babyn Yar massacre was politicized in the Soviet Union from the beginning. After the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine recognized the Holocaust as a part of its national history. But commemorating the Babyn Yar massacre often provokes heated debates in Ukrainian society.
Anna Glazova's For the Shrew and Leonid Schwab's Everburning Pilot will appear in English translation this fall. Our seminar will welcome both poets and three of their translators -- Alex Niemi, Alexander Spektor, and Anton Tenser -- to read from the books and answer questions about the poems, the translations, and the current state of Russian poetry.
