Kent State's Wick Poetry Center participating in global poem for Ukraine

The Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University is asking people to contribute a line to “Dear Ukraine,” a global community poem that provides a space for individuals around the world to speak to the unfolding atrocities of the war against Ukraine and its people.

The poem is drawn from Julia Kolchinksy Dasbach’s poem of the same name. Visitors to the site will be able to read translations of the user-submitted poems in English, Ukrainian, Russian or Polish. The center is also asking for donations to Kent State’s Ukrainian Scholar Support Fund or the university's special UNICEF campaign.

Kolchinsky Dasbach emigrated from Dnipro, Ukraine as a Jewish refugee in 1993, when she was 6 years old and grew up in a Russian-speaking household. She is the author of "The Many Names for Mother," winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize; "Don't Touch the Bones," from Lost Horse press, publisher of a Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series; and the forthcoming "40 WEEKS."

Dear Ukraine is a Traveling Stanzas project of Kent State University’s College of Arts and Sciences’ Wick Poetry Center, with support from the School of Peace and Conflict Studies.

You can participate at https://dearukrainepoem.com/.

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