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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My little reading of the Catullus translation at the center of Anne Carson’s NOX, published in a long defunct journal. Hail, conquering Carson!

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Enchantra Sand📚🌻 @enchantrasand.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

💙📚 #Books #poetry #Translation Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood Alexander Voloshin with Boris Dralyuk (Translator) 98 pages • paperback

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The marvelous Matt Reeck sees in Alexander Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED precisely what I had hoped readers would see, “an essential American story.” (And he seems to approve of my versifying, too.) My thanks to him and to @ronslate.bsky.social of ON THE SEAWALL! www.ronslate.com/on-sidetrack...

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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reach for your tools of the trade! We’re open for business. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/tools-of-t...

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In the latest @thetls.bsky.social, I review Iya Kiva’s uncompromising collection “Silence Dressed in Cyrillic Letters,” translated from Russian and Ukrainian by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk @huribooks.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/literature/p...

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 13/09/2026

"It’s not our place to ponder the true worth / of fragile imitations, fortune’s gifts for / ladies of noble taste and common birth. Read “Facing the Music,” a poem by Boris Dralyuk:

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Facing the Music

A poem by Boris Dralyuk

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Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Loved following the one-eared Samson in and out of bathhouses on the trail of black caviar in 1919 Kyiv. Thank you @nadyawilliams81.bsky.social for review, and @bdralyuk.bsky.social for the translation! And Andrey Kurkov for creating a wonderful series. www.plough.com/articles/and...

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Andrey Kurkov’s Kyiv Mysteries | Plough

The Ukrainian literary sensation does far more than entertain.

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I deeply appreciate your kind words and beautiful wish for a musical setting. May it be granted by some gifted reader down the road…

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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I was thrilled by the reviews of my last book--so many were works of art in their own right! Not Kirkus. "Cheap sleep aid, non-habit-forming,"* they wrote--and that was the kindest part! BUT check out Kirkus on my new book! We are friends again! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Thank you very much, dear Lena.

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Oh, dear, that is the highest possible praise…

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A little elegy for my aunt from the October issue of @theatlantic.com. I am immensely grateful to Walt Hunter for giving it space on the shelf. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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Orange County Review of Books @ocreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“A seam of memorable statements runs through this book, and Voloshin mines it with gusto.” Eric Bies reviews Alexander Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED: EXILE IN HOLLYWOOD, recently rescued via @bdralyuk.bsky.social’s translation. @pauldrybooks.bsky.social ocreviewofbooks.substack.com/p/sidetracke...

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Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood by Alexander Voloshin

Reviewed by Eric Bies

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

An autumnal ballad-sonnet hybrid for Edna St. Vincent Millay, a master of both forms. I thank Ken Gordon of THE SONNETEER for giving my poem a little plot in the sun.

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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Today our newsletter readers received a story by Kashona Notah from the Summer 2026 issue. “‘Yá’át’ééh shik’is.’ An older man with an uncombed gray ponytail stuck his head out the window. With the window open, the music became clearer, it was a round dance song.“ nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/hoka

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Hoka!

A story by Kashona Notah

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

An ironic yet affectionate response to Volodymyr Sosiura’s (1898-1965) patriotic “Love Ukraine” (1944), it might be interpreted as a playful prod, urging modern Ukrainians to look forward and westward, instead of backward and eastward. 2/2 okiemodern.org/issues/issue...

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Issue Two — Okie Modern: A Journal of Contemporary Oklahoma Literature & Art

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My translation of “Love Oklahoma” by Oleksandr Irvanets is out in the terrific (and highly appropriately titled) journal OKIE MODERN. As I write in my introduction, Oleksandr Irvanets’s whimsical ode to Oklahoma, which the poet had never visited, was written in 1992. 1/2

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Poems that stun me on each read. Here is the one by @zinagomezliss.bsky.social. Click through for the one by Paula Bohince.

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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I decided to wait until all 3 of The Kyiv Mysteries arrived before starting The Silver Bone and, now that I've gotten some other reading out of the way, decided to read one after the other. I'm now over halfway through TSB, and love Kurkov's wit and @bdralyuk.bsky.social 's brilliant translation!

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

How lovely to hear it! Thank you!

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Spend an hour with Ange Mlinko, Michael Caines, and me as we discuss the work of Henri Coulette (1927-1988), whose NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, which Michael and I co-edited, is now available from @carcanet.bsky.social: youtu.be/WodlOh5NjMY

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Henri Coulette: New and Selected Poems Book Launch

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The great Cynthia Haven weighs in, briefly, on Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED in @thetls.bsky.social! “Brilliantly translated… Voloshin attempts to come to grips with the sweep of the twentieth century, from the Revolution to Pearl Harbor.” @pauldrybooks.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

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They sold their shadows

One of Russia’s lesser-known poets worked as an actor, a waiter, a soldier and a military officer in the years after the Bolshevik Revolution and the

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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Great writer, great translator, wise reviewer…

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Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Can't wait to read these! Thank you to @plough.bsky.social for review by @nadyawilliams81.bsky.social

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

What a perceptive and moving conclusion to @nadyawilliams81.bsky.social’s new review of Andrey Kurkov’s Kyiv Mysteries in @plough.bosky.social… Thank you! @quercusbooks.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social www.plough.com/articles/and...

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Oh, goodness, I very much hope it will be!

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Readers, I implore you, listen to Eric Bies and get yourselves to @pauldrybooks.bsky.social! Voloshin awaits!

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

To be read at all, much less so appreciatively, is a great privilege… Thank you again, @ocregister.bsky.social!

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

What a joy to see this brilliant and lively review!

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Missing LA this morning, I posted a brief poem by a fellow Odesa-born émigré, Viktor Rayzman (b. 1934), with whom I must have ridden this very bus route at least once…

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Steve Sick @starrytraveler.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Ghost Signs by Boris Dralyuk (Excerpt) A slip of paper laundered in the pocket of an old coat, the ink a blurry bruise; a coil of hair trapped in a shopworn locket— a child’s? a lover’s?—just no telling whose; #SignsOnSunday #ImageAndVerse #SilentSunday #ClassicMono

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Linger over that perfect line break in the closing couplet of this poem, or over the rhymes of the second in the link, and you will come to appreciate just how hard this soi-disant “minor poet” has fought to “to be good in his own way.” I love these translations!

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I am very sorry for your loss, and am glad this poem reached you.

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The Common @commonmag.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

"I looked him up. A studio electrician, / for some time he sold beachy curios— / albums of sea moss, moonstones, flying fish wings— / by mail. He never wore a doughboy’s clothes." Read more of Boris Dralyuk's poem "Legion," a meditation on remembering and sacrifice, below!

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Legion

BORIS DRALYUK <br> Of C. H. Krumm—Charles Harrison, or Harry— / a single trace remains on Catalina, / so oxidized, so salt-worn I could barely / make out the name. How many must have seen it /…

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"It is sad that 'Sidetracked' has gone unnoticed for so long, but this is an appropriate time for it to be published." Robert Chandler on Boris Dralyuk's "Sidetracked: Exiled in Hollywood": lareviewofbooks.org/article/sidetra…

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An Epic of Displacement | Los Angeles Review of Books

Boris Dralyuk’s latest work of translation is Alexander Voloshin’s poetic epic about a Ukrainian exile lost in Hollywood.

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Delighted to do it, dear Lisa! It’s nothing if not evocative of its time!

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Instructive story about holding personal subjects at a slight distance in poems. Thomas Hardy wrote this after his cat’s death. Florence, his young love, objected to the line calling the cat the “only friend.” H. assured her that the man was not him, just one in his situation.

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