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Join Dr. Andrea Liss on Zoom for our next Good Trouble Reading Group. We’ll be discussing a selection of poems from two books available at the Los Angeles Public Library—Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow: Selected Poems by Natalka Bilotserkivets and Ukraine at War: Street Art, Posters + Poetry, compiled by Daoud Sarhandi-Williams. The poems we’ll be discussing will be made available for attendees to read online.
Natalka Bilotserkivets is a Ukrainian poet, editor, and translator. She has published several collections of her poetry since her first book in 1976, but her work has only recently been translated into English. Her poem "May" was used as the core text in an award-winning bilingual theater piece commemorating the five-year anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, which brought her to international attention in the early 1990s. In 2021, Lost Horse Press published Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow: Selected Poems, a career-spanning anthology of Bilotserkivets's poems translated from the Ukrainian by Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky. It was a finalist for the 2022 Griffin International Poetry Prize, the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, ALTA's National Translation Award in Poetry, and winner of the 2022 American Association for Ukrainian Studies 2020-2021 Translation Prize.
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the world was watching. Six months later, British journalist and filmmaker Daoud Sarhandi-Williams travelled to Kyiv to photograph the city’s street art and discovered images that capture the hopes and fears of a city. He compiled his and others’ photographs, along with a trove of extraordinary war poetry by Ukrainian citizens, into a multimedia chronicle, Ukraine at War: Street Art, Posters + Poetry. It’s a unique artistic testament to the storied resilience of the Ukraine people, caught up in violent world-changing upheaval that is far from over.
The Good Trouble Reading Group shares books that engage themes of social justice with love and family at their core. Our group leader, Dr. Andrea Liss, is Professor Emerita of Visual Culture and Cultural Theory at California State University, San Marcos, and a local Echo Park resident. Her teaching and research focus on artwork, photography, and poetry that connect deeply with historical events and their echoes today in the fight for justice.
For ADA accommodations, call (213) 228-7430 at least 72 hours prior to the event.
Para ajustes razonables según la ley de ADA, llama al (213) 228-7430 al menos 72 horas antes del evento.