About Oksana Maksymchuk and Pleiades

Today's poem is "Unsteady Topography"

from Pleiades

Oksana Maksymchuk is a bilingual Ukrainian-American poet, scholar, and literary translator. Her debut English-language poetry collection Still City is the 2024 Pitt Poetry Series selection, forthcoming with University of Pittsburgh Press (US) and Carcanet Press (UK). She is also the author of two award-winning poetry collections, Xenia and Lovy, in the Ukrainian. Her poems appeared in AGNI, The Irish Times, The Paris Review, The Poetry Review, and many other journals. She co-edited an anthology “Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine,” and co-translated several poetry collections. She is a recipient of the National Endowments for the Arts Translation Fellowship, the Scaglione Prize for Literary Translation from the Modern Language Association of America, the American Association for Ukrainian Studies Translation Prize, and other honors. 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.
Other poems by Oksana Maksymchuk in Verse Daily:
December 11, 2023: "Reciprocity" "Here, hold this line..."
February 23, 2023: "A Guest of War" "In a bed we set up..."
February 1, 2023: "Ambush" "In the hollow of a street..."

Other poems on the web by Oksana Maksymchuk:
"Rocket in the Room"
Three poems
"Sappho on the Rocks"
"Before Departure"
Two poems
Two poems
"The Cat's Odyssey"
Nine poems
"In the Wake of a Disaster"
"Material Resistance"
"Safety Concerns"
Oksana Maksymchuk's Website.
Oksana Maksymchuk on Twitter.
About Pleiades:

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Pleaides: A Journal of New Writing * Department of English * Central Missouri State University * Warrensburg, MO 64093 Poetry Editor: Jenny Molberg * Caitlin Cowan

Other poems from Pleiades in Verse Daily:
July 6, 2016: "Tingo (For Divorce)" by Jennifer Givhan
June 29, 2016: "The Back Roads" by Jennifer Givhan
June 28, 2016: "Amateur Hour (What Do Sad Songs Remind You Of?)" by Charlie Clark
December 18, 2015: "Pond" by Bianca Lech
December 17, 2015: "Man" by Rebecca Lehmann
November 18, 2015: "Snow" by Nellie Bridge
November 16, 2015: "The Desired Change Will Occur" by Bill Carty
May 15, 2015: "For the Cliff that Is Leaving Us" by Amy Sparks
May 13, 2015: "Nethering" by Peter Cooley
August 20, 2014: "Tame Me" by Ralph Angel
August 19, 2014: "Swift Trucks" by Erika Meitner
August 22, 2013: "Pond" by Michael Bazzett
August 21, 2013: "Paranoia Is a Kind of Rain" by Daniel Moysaenko
August 20, 2013: "Dift" by Gregory Lawless
May 1, 2013: "Phlogiston Footage" by Nicky Beer
April 26, 2013: "Elegy" by Cintia Santana
April 25, 2013: "Brief Study of Parades" by Jill Osier
April 24, 2013: "How I Made My Money" by Noah Blaustein
July 12, 2012: "In a Landscape: XLI" by John Gallaher
July 11, 2012: "The Last Word" by William Olsen
July 10, 2012: "This Is What It Feels Like When I'm Telling the Truth" by Kent Shaw
July 9, 2012: "The Buzzard and Reversal" by Michael Bazzett
February 15, 2012: "Body of Moving and Light" by Peter Streckfus
February 13, 2012: "A Prisoner of Things" by Alan Michael Parker
September 7, 2011: "Camera Lucida" by Joshua Diamond
September 6, 2011: "Like a Machine, Struggle for Mother" by Andrea Baker
September 1, 2011 "Arrows" by Bruce Bond
March 10, 2011: "Pond as a Red Dress" by Victoria Chang
March 7, 2011: "Aspirin and Shadow" by Chris Forhan
March 1, 2008: "Apostasy" by Carol Quinn
June 27, 2007: "The Sunset" by Randall Pondn
June 25, 2007: "There Is No Pretending" by Mary Jo Bang
February 13, 2005: "Ironwork" by Stephanie Bolster
February 12, 2005: "Afterworld" by Sophie Cabot Black
February 11, 2005: "Cruelties" by Stephen Dunn

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