Writes about the experience of magic in the world. 🇺🇦🇺🇸@valya@mastodon.social, @valya.bsky.social, valya_dl on IG

Joined July 2007
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Valya Dudycz Lupescu 🌻 retweeted
MYTHIC DELIRIUM returns w/ new books in 2026‼️ The first phase is underway, w/ the forthcoming publication of Haralambi Markov’s debut collection of horror & Weird fiction, THE LANGUAGE OF KNIVES. (Introduction by @AnnVanderMeer!) [1/3] Sale link here: bit.ly/BoneSwans10th
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Brilliant discussion by @BorisDralyuk of the “whole project” of approaching poetic translation - plus a recording of a Julia Nemirovskaya poem in Russian & English! Looking forward to the whole series of reflections on translation, thx @AmitMajmudar!
This summer the great @AmitMajmudar approached a number of accomplished poet-translators (mistakenly including me) to reflect on particularly tricky challenges. I’m grateful to him and @MarginaliaROB for this opportunity to share a Julia Nemirovskaya poem. Read the piece below!
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Discover “Chicago’s Latina and Chicano Poets: An Overview”, a new blog post, by Carlos Cumpián, that maps out the city’s rich poetic landscape. 📖 Read now and let these voices stir your literary curiosity: chicagoliteraryhof.org/blog/… #ChicagoLit #LatinaPoets #ChicanoPoets #Poetry
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Small news: I've just been made poetry co-editor on @M_Star_Online, working with @ruthaylett & Alan Morrison. I'm looking for subtle political/personal poems, emphasising resistance. Plse send to: thursdaypoems@gmail.com - 33 lines max. 2 line bio. 📚
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NW Alaska evacuating in case you watch mainstream news and don’t know what’s happening up here
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My thanks to @Othuke__Umukoro for inspiring me to dive into the spiky, salty, shrewd satirical poems of @TabanloLiyong. So much to savor in this African giant’s flavorsome quarreling in and with English. Chew on this sermon from the 1990s. (I love his promotion of Col. Sanders.)
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Hey! It's been a minute! I've got two hours to fund this audiobook on #Kickstarter and this translation on #kofi. Anyone feeling like a hero tonight? #BlackArt #AfricanArt #JewishArt #SmallPress #Indie
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21 Aug 2025
Still haven't seen the Peanuts musical on Apple TV , but it has this gorgeous song, written by Ben Folds, sung by Jayd Deroché. "When We Were Light" youtube.com/watch?v=AHcRA6X_…
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What happens when a photographer’s lens captures the truth of human resilience? @Refugees are too often unseen. This #WorldHumanitarianDay, draw inspiration from our former UN #SDGAwards judge @Muheisen81, who gives them a voice & reveals to the world the faces of the displaced.
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Before Friday’s @POTUS-Putin meeting in Alaska, Razom’s adviser on abducted Ukrainian children, Katya Pavlevych @Kpavlevych, urges the U.S. to pressure Russia into returning the children. In a video for the @nypost, Katya lays out Ukraine’s attempts to negotiate the return of children with Russia and the role of America in this. Watch and share 👇
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BAKHMUT by Myroslav Laiuk is now available from @ukrainer! Be sure to order it and support Ukrainian writers and literature!
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I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
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Just wow. The Boryviter mosaic — badly damaged in Mariupol, restored in Kyiv — now stands in Trafalgar Square. Unveiled by @usykaa and @richardbranson ahead of Usyk’s fight at Wembley. This falcon is Ukraine: rising strong from the ashes.
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Ronald L. Fair’s Hog Butcher is a gripping, poetic novel about a young Black boy shot by police—and the two children who must decide whether to tell the truth. 👉 chicagoliteraryhof.org/blog/… #ChicagoLiteraryHallofFame #CLHOF #ChicagoLit #RonaldLFair #HogButcher #BlackVoices
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An American citizen who was killed in a Russian attack on Kyiv this week was an artist from Oregon, Fred Grandy. Upset by a reversal of US policy on Ukraine, he came to Kyiv in May to help clean up rubble from Russian attacks. He was among the 28 people killed on June 17.
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Born, like me, in Odesa, the poet William Pillin (1909-85) was raised in Cleveland and Chicago, and spent the last decades of his life in LA. He wrote beautifully about the city, often with great humor, but it is this poem from a 1954 issue of @poetrymagazine I want to share.
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