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Background: Blue with a black X in the lower right corner Foreground: Words in black read : Resistance + Reinvention Words in Yellow Read: Eastern European Voices March 6, 7:00-9:30 pm Library Nineteen 606 S. Ann St, Baltimore MD, 21231 Words in white read : A benefit reading for Ukraine Words in white read:This one-of-a-kind reading brings together writers from Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet countries who now make their homes across the United States. Taking place during the 2026 AWP Conference, the event celebrates a growing circle of poets, prose writers, and translators from complex, cross-cultural identities whose work is shaped by displacement and immigration, survival and resilience. Featuring Words in white read: Alina Adams, Valerie Bandura, Svetlana Binshtok, Daniel Blokh, Katie Farris, Katarzyna Jakubiak, Victoria Juharyan, Andrea Jurjevic, Ilya Kaminsky, Julia Kolchinsky, Maria Kuznetsova, Ellen Litman, Olga Livshin, olga mikolaivna, Asya Partan, Irina Reyn, Ena Selimović, Lucy Silbaugh, Lana Spendl, Alina Stefanescu, Natalya Sukhonos, Vlada Teper, Katherine E. Young, Tatsiana Zamirovskaya, Olga Zilberbourg, and Lena Zycinsky.

How beautiful are these book covers! In Baltimore next week? Don't miss his one-of-a-kind reading that brings together poets, prose writers, and translators from Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet countries who now make their homes across the United States.

Excited to be partnering with @bergstrombookstore.bsky.social for this upcoming Reading and Benefit for Ukraine in Baltimore on March 6th! @puncturedlines.bsky.social

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Baltimore -- take note!

Read more about this upcoming March 6 Reading in Baltimore on Punctured Lines! @puncturedlines.bsky.social

Can't wait for this incredible event in Baltimore! Please join us if you can! Read more about it below. And register on Eventbrite.

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Eastern European Voices for Resistance and Reinvention When: March 6, 7:00 pm Where: Library Nineteen606 S. Ann St, Baltimore MD, 21231 *** Please register on Eventbrite *** This one-of-a-kind reading brings together writers from Eastern Europe an…

Just take a look at all the bios here. We're an impressive bunch.

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I wish I could be there, as this has the feel of our phenomenal event in LA last year. If you're going to AWP or are anywhere near Baltimore, go hear all these amazing writers like @olgaz.bsky.social, @vladateper.bsky.social, and more, and of course support Ukraine.

Absolutely delighted to be part of this AWP reading is support of Ukraine! Check out who's joining us!

Background: Blue Foreground: Word in yellow reads: Featuring Words in white read: Valerie Bandura, Svetlana Binshtok, Daniel Blokh, Katie Farris, Katarzyna Jakubiak, Victoria Juharyan, Andrea Jurjevic, Ilya Kaminsky, Julia Kolchinsky, Maria Kuznetsova, Ellen Litman, Olga Livshin, olga mikolaivna, Asya Partan, Irina Reyn, Ena Selimović, Lucy Silbaugh, Alina Sivorinovsky Wickham, Lana Spendl, Alina Stefanescu, Natalya Sukhonos, Vlada Teper, Katherine E. Young, Tatsiana Zamirovskaya, Olga Zilberbourg, and Lena Zycinsky.

Ok, now you can marvel at the FULL list of the participants!

(sorry to all, we're clearly overwhelmed by the awesomeness of this upcoming event.)

Looking forward to this great event!

Huge thanks to @bergstrombookstore.bsky.social for providing book sales at this event!!

And Katarzyna Jakubiak!

Featuring cont'd: Ena Selimović, Lucy Silbaugh, Alina Sivorinovsky Wickham, Lana Spendl, @alinaetc.bsky.social, Natalya Sukhonos, Vlada Teper, @katherineeyoung.bsky.social, Tatsiana Zamirovskaya, @olgaz.bsky.social, @lenazycinsky.bsky.social

Featuring: @valeriebandura.bsky.social, Svetlana Binshtok, Daniel Blokh, Katie Farris, Victoria Juharyan, @andreajurjevic.bsky.social, @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social, Julia Kolchinsky, Maria Kuznetsova, Ellen Litman, @battlecake.bsky.social, @olgamikolaivna.bsky.social, @apartan.bsky.social, Irina Reyn,

Background: Blue with a black X in the lower right corner Foreground: Words in yellow read : Resistance + Reinvention Words in black read : Eastern European Voices Words in white read: March 6, 7:00-9:30 pm Library Nineteen 606 S. Ann St, Baltimore MD, 21231

Background: Yellow Foreground: Words in black read: This one-of-a-kind reading brings together writers from Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet countries who now make their homes across the United States. Taking place during the 2026 AWP Conference, the event celebrates a growing circle of poets, prose writers, and translators from complex, cross-cultural identities whose work is shaped by displacement and immigration, survival and resilience.

Background: Black Foreground: Words in white read: More essential than ever, nuanced storytelling is our compass toward understanding and community. Writing from and beyond histories marked by authoritarianism and censorship, the authors center free expression, creative freedom, and democratic dialogue. Through stories of reinvention, loss, and belonging, we build cultural and intergenerational bridges, reclaiming the power of connection and voice. Words in yellow read: This event is a fundraiser for Ukraine

Background: Blue Foreground: Word in yellow reads: Featuring Words in white read: Valerie Bandura, Svetlana Binshtok, Daniel Blokh, Katie Farris, Katarzyna Jakubiak, Victoria Juharyan, Andrea Jurjevic, Ilya Kaminsky, Julia Kolchinsky, Maria Kuznetsova, Ellen Litman, Olga Livshin, olga mikolaivna, Asya Partan, Irina Reyn, Ena Selimović, Lucy Silbaugh, Alina Sivorinovsky Wickham, Lana Spendl, Alina Stefanescu, Natalya Sukhonos, Vlada Teper, Katherine E. Young, Tatsiana Zamirovskaya, Olga Zilberbourg, and Lena Zycinsky.

Baltimore, get ready! This one-of-a-kind reading brings together writers from Eastern Europe who now make their homes across the United States. We're coming together during #AWP26 to share our work in support of Ukraine.
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A book with a purple cover displayed on the background of mossy bricks Best Literary Translations 2026 U.S. Poet Laureate ARTHUR SZE Guest Editor Noh Anothai Wendy Call Oyku Tekten Kola Tubosun Series Co-editors

A spread from the book displayed on the background of mossy bricks [Out in the street the air smells of smoke] Olga Bragina Translated from the Russian by Olga Zilberbourg

This anthology is now available for pre-order from @deepvellum.bsky.social. Huge thanks to the editors and the publishers of literature in translation for your support! I'm thrilled that this poem by Olga Bragina will now have even more reach. Please buy the book & ask your library to carry it!

BEST LITERARY TRANSLATIONS 2026 is available for preorder!

Guest edited by National Book Award winner Arthur Sze, BLT 2026 is compiled from over 450 submissions written in 62 original languages and features poetry and prose written in languages both widely spoken and critically endangered.

Text on yellow background: In April of last year, my short story came out in Aina Journal, a Kazakhstani literary magazine for women.

Text on yellow background: In the middle of the poetry club meeting, we always had a smoking break. I smoke sporadically, which I’m not very proud of, so I was outside the cafe where we held the club, at the bottom of the stairs, one hand hovering over a trash can.

Text on yellow background: “They have sex in there,” he said then

Text and image on yellow background. On the right, an image of the author Dana Kanafina. On the left, text: Writing is the Closest We Will Ever Get to Time Travel: A Guest Essay by Dana Kanafina Below, text: Read on PuncturedLines.com

Writing is the Closest We Will Ever Get to Time Travel: An Essay by Dana Kanafina
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I really related to Dana Kanafina's thought experiment, trying to imagine herself in the future, revisiting her home country from the position of acquiring a new identity. It's a game I've been playing my entire life.

"This is what I write about: the way poverty, hopelessness, and unspoken and unprocessed violence corrode a person, and I can’t write about it as it is actively happening to me. This isn’t an untreated, progressing illness; this is my home."

Today on the blog, an essay about Kazakhstan's literary present and future by Dana Kanafina, a writer from Kazakhstan now living in Germany. Many thanks to @olgaz.bsky.social for her editing support with this piece.

Writing is the Closest We Will Ever Get to Time Travel: A Guest Essay by Dana Kanafina Today we are featuring a personal essay by Dana Kanafina, a writer from Kazakhstan, currently living in Germany. Although I have never been to Kazakhstan, I have (an admittedly tenuous) connection …

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Today we are featuring a personal essay by Dana Kanafina, a writer from Kazakhstan, now living in Germany
"So does all this suggest that sixty years from now, Kazakhstan will be as central to world literature as Canada is today?"

Many thanks to @olgaz.bsky.social for her editing advice and support.

A yellow flyer with a flash of light across it. Boxes in red read: Stories on Stage Davis What: Short Fiction read by actors When: Second Sundays 4-6 pm Where: Sudwerk Brewing in Davis Black text on yellow background: February 8, 2026 Shirley Chan Her Story / My Story / History This amazing piece is a deeply moving hybrid narrative that interweaves three voices: a daughter's contemporary reflection, her mother's harrowing 1971 escape from China to Hong Kong as a freedom swimmer during the Cultural Revolution, and the stark historical facts of that brutal period. & Olga Zilberbourg A Russian-American author whose debut English-language collection LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES has garnered critical acclaim for its masterful blend of immigrant experience and universal human themes.

I’m delighted to announce that on Sunday, February 8, 2026 my work will be featured by Stories on Stage, a reading series in Davis, CA. A professional actor Eileen Hoang will perform my story “Doctor Sveta” from LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES.

Now through Feb. 15, US adressees who donate $100 to WLT will receive a copy of A Compass on the Navigable Sea: 100 Years of World Literature. Enjoy reading some of our greatest hits while supporting our mission to continue publishing writers worldwide.

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Honored to find Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine on the BSFA Award Longlist! Wow! The company on this list makes me immensely proud to be writing today.

These are ones I found for MN; if anyone has other ideas, please share them, and please donate if you can.

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Yelena Moskovich is 🔥

everybody knows Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and Chekhov, and if you’re bookish Bulgakov and Gogol and Pasternak, but who’s talking about Margarita Khemlin, who died a handful of years back and left us with a masterpiece, Klotsvog,

sometimes at night, when Nadya has already fallen asleep next to me and the blinds on the slanted window of our bedroom are not fully shut, I lie on my back and glimpse the broad nighttime sky, a dark milky sky, a pauper’s sky, a dreamer’s sky, a prisoner’s sky, and I think about the sea and sailors lying in their cots, like me except alone, looking up at a broad nighttime sky, a dark milky sky, a doomed sky, as they think about land,

I won’t ruin the whole story, but in the beginning, in Klotsvog, the main character, Maya, —who’s evacuated with her family from the little town of Ostyor in Ukraine when she’s very little, where the then-thriving Jewish population is near erased—and skip ahead, the past is the past, she’s trying it make it in the big city, but, of course, she falls for the wrong type of guy and has a baby too young,

Nadezhda in the dark A Novel-IN-VERSE by Yelena Moskovich available now from Dzanc books Read the rest of the excerpt on puncturedlines.com

NADEZHDA IN THE DARK

A novel-in-verse

by Yelena Moskovich

available now from Dzanc Books

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(ed. @yelenafurman.bsky.social and @olgaz.bsky.social)