Nikola Yurtsaba (Nicole Yurcaba)

Schedule for September 29-October 5
Monday-Friday
Constitution Ave NE and Delaware Ave NE by Russell Senate Office Building 4-7pm
Saturday and Sunday
Lafayette Park 5-7pm
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Call your members of Congress and demand the USA resumes military aid to Ukraine.
#CrimeaIsUkraine

No One Has Calculated the Half-Life of Grief Nicole Yurcaba’s haunting poem explores how grief can leave us struggling to change.

My poem "No One Has Calculated the Half-Life of Grief" has published at
@apricotpress.bsky.social
: apricotpress.co.uk/2025/09/24/n.... If you're so inclined, there's a tip jar. :)

A huge thank-you to Apricot for selecting this poem!

HAHA. THANK YOU FOR CATCHING THAT!

If you're in the Harrisonburg, Bridgewater, Charlottesville (Virginia) area, I hope you'll come see my reading at Bridgewater College on 16 September 2025 @ 7 PM in Bowman Hall! I'll be reading from THE PALE GOTH & I'll read about 🇺🇦!

If you're in the Harrisonburg, Bridgewater, Charlottesville (Virginia) area, I hope you'll come see my reading at Bridgewater College on 16 September 2025 @ 7 PM in Bowman Hall! I'll be reading from THE PALE GOTH & I'll read about 🇺🇦!

❗️explosions in Sumy and Poltava regains reported earlier ❗️drone attack

Next site, artworks by Ukrainian artist Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky (Василь Григорович Кричевський). He was born in what would become Kharkiv Oblast in 1873. He was a designer of the 1918 Ukrainian coat of arms, state seals, and banknotes.
#StandWithUkraine
#СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦🌻

Just $2 (or more!) can help the 72nd Brigade in #Ukraine save lives with excavators and crane trucks. Please help if you can. Every dollar counts. 💛🇺🇦💛

Looking forward to victory – but focused on daily life: a review of Andrey Kurkov’s Our Daily War - New Eastern Europe Our Daily War adeptly tackles the identity issues that emerged for Ukrainians since 2014, when Russia began tearing Ukraine apart.

Доброй рано! Such exciting news this morning. My review of
Andrey Kurkov's OUR DAILY WAR has published at
@neweasterneurope.eu!

I hope you'll read it and Andrei's book! Once again, I am grateful to the editors of NEE for selecting my review for publication.

neweasterneurope.eu/2025/09/02/l...

#OtD 1 Sep 1939 the first fighting of WWII in Europe took place. 56 post office workers in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) took up arms to repel the Nazi takeover. After 15 hours, the surviving workers surrendered. They were tried as bandits and executed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8158...

My review of Andrew Lipstein's novel SOMETHING ROTTEN, which I consider to be 2025's best novel, has published at The Los Angeles Review: losangelesreview.org/something-ro...

librarians are generals in the war on ignorance

Live your life in such a way that you don’t give a shit about the Cracker Barrel logo.

"A story of self-reflection and self-reclamation, as well as an exploration of the human connections and fulfillments one can find in places one never thought imaginable."

@nyurtsaba.bsky.social reviews A DOG IN GEORGIA by Lauren Grodstein. @algonquinbooks.bsky.social

Villagers struggle to make sense of their darkening world. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/s... @groveatlantic.bsky.social @nyurtsaba.bsky.social #booksky

You are very welcome! Thank you for writing this book. It arrived at the perfect time in my life and at this time!

Thank you, @nyurtsaba.bsky.social, for this very thoughtful & politically attuned review of Wolf Bells. (I love the Dark Shadows comparison, too!) #socialistgothic @algonquinbooks.bsky.social

Review by Nicole Yurcaba of "Wolf Bells" by Leni Zumas Leni Zumas’s novel Wolf Bells publishes in September 2025 in the United States, and, honestly, with the current socio-political dysfunction...

My review of @lenizumas.bsky.social's stunning novel WOLF BELLS, published by @algonquinbooks.bsky.social, has published at University of Leicester's EVERYBODY'S REVIEWING! everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2025/08/revi...

Be sure to add this novel to your TBR stacks. It is a must-read!

"The things you say, you don’t mean them sometimes."

Niall McArdle (@ragingfluff):

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Well done, Alaska.

#ToonieTuesday UPDATE👇
Heading to $ 5,000!

Please, don't stop supporting the Arkan drone unit ot the 108th Separate Mountain Assault Battalion, they need birds💥 to defend the Siversk front!

Donate:
🅿️🅿️ gocanigor@gmail.com
🏦 send.monobank.ua/jar/43BtsB1uLB

#NAFO #Ukraine #FNDRUA #donatetoUrkaine

Friends, I'm sorry for being AWOL. I returned from Ireland, fell ill, am still recovering & trying to prep for the upcoming semester. I'll return to coordinating advocacy posts as able. In the meantime, please stand with Ukraine & have a day as beautiful as you are.

“Chilco” Is the Post-Colonial, Post-Capitalism Survival Story We Didn’t Know We Needed A review of Daniela Catrileo’s “Chilco.”

"CHILCO is a spellbinding fever-dream, swirling with socio-political conversations, mysteries, and self-reclamations."

@nyurtsaba.bsky.social reviews CHILCO by Daniela Catrileo, translated by Jacob Edelstein. @fsgbooks.bsky.social

Kharkiv last night after russian drone attack

“Monsterland” Shows What Monsters Really Mean “Monsterland” by Nicholas Jubber examines the social, cultural, and environmental history of monsters.

"With careful attention and respect, Jubber also examines how traditions, people, and communities are bound together by creatures meant to frighten outsiders and teach valuable lessons."

@nyurtsaba.bsky.social reviews MONSTERLAND by Nicholas Jubber. @scribepub.bsky.social

Friends, be sure to grab a copy of the latest volume of Vogue Ukraine. It's filled with some wonderful translations of poetry and prose by Ukraine's foremost writers. It also has Ukrainian-language versions of these pieces!

OTD in 2023 you were informed Ukrainian forces were "on the verge of collapse" and that it was "all over".

I remain a master strategist.

Oleg's Book Group #1, check! ✅ Thanks to Marina, fair book mother Kelly, @mylureveron.bsky.social, @reneemissel.bsky.social, Jessie O'Leary, artist Dasha Kochneva, @nyurtsaba.bsky.social, and of course, author @veretskiy.bsky.social, for nearly 2 hours of meet & greet & a deep dive into the Tales!

We Were Here by Artur Dron Trans. Yuliya Musakovska. Jantar. 2024. 101 pages.

My review of Artur Dron's WE WERE HERE, published by the amazing Jantar Publishing, appears in the latest issue of @worldlittoday.bsky.social! worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/july/we...