Twentieth-Century Ukrainian Poetry & Translation Series: Modernist Precursors

This session highlights the modernist precursors featured in the opening sections of the anthology, with a special focus on the foundational and brilliant poet, playwright, and translator Lesia Ukrainka. Featuring: Nina Murray, translator, reading the work of Lesia Ukrainka Convened by: Ostap Kin (Stanford University) and Ainsley Morse (UC San Diego), co-editors of A Ukrainian Century: Poems, 1900–1999, forthcoming in Fall 2027 from World Poetry Books. Discussion 2 of 8 Featured Translator Bio: Nina Murray Nina Murray is a Ukrainian-American poet and translator. She is the author of the poetr…