Verses from the War: An Evening with Ukrainian Poet Yaryna Chornohuz

Join an intimate evening with Yaryna Chornohuz, an award-winning Ukrainian poet and senior corporal in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in conversation with Amelia Glaser, UCSD professor and English translator of Yaryna’s poetry. A combat medic and reconnaissance soldier serving with Ukraine’s 140th Marine Reconnaissance Battalion since 2019, Chornohuz writes from the front lines — literally. Her 2023 collection, [dasein: defence of presence], won Ukraine’s highest literary honor, the Taras Shevchenko National Prize, in 2024. She has been profiled by the New Yorker and the New York Times, named o…