Halyna Kruk, Amelia M. Glaser, and Yuliya Ilchuk read from A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails

Enjoy this bilingual poetry reading of “mama - i'm a - pit,” read first in Ukrainian by Halyna Kruk, followed by the English translation by Amelia M. Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk. This poem is excerpted from their 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize-longlisted collection, A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails (Arrowsmith Press).
Halyna Kruk is the author of five books of poetry, a collection of short stories, and four children’s books. She has garnered multiple awards for her writing, including the Bohdan Ihor Antonych Prize, the Polish Gaude Polonia Fellowship, the Bookforum Best Book Award, and the Kovaliv Foundation Prize for Prose. She has served as vice president of the PEN Ukraine, holds a Ph.D in Ukrainian literature, and is professor of European and Ukrainian baroque literature at the Ivan Franko National University in Lviv.
Amelia M. Glaser translates primarily from Yiddish, Ukrainian, and Russian. She is Professor of Literature at UC San Diego, where she holds the Chair in Judaic Studies.
Yuliya Ilchuk is Assistant Professor of Slavic Literature and Culture at Stanford University. She is the author of an award-winning book, Nikolai Gogol’s Hybrid Performance, and a translator of contemporary Ukrainian poetry.
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The winner will be announced at the Griffin Poetry Prize Readings to be held in Toronto on Wednesday, June 5, and will be awarded $130,000. The other shortlisted finalists will each receive $10,000.
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