Twentieth-Century Ukrainian Poetry & Translation Series: Modernist Precursors

Event details Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2026 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Online Type: Exhibits Audience: Staff and Faculty, Alumni, Students, Undergraduate, Graduate and Professional, Lifelong Learning About this event 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 poetry collections Glapthorn Circular (LiveCanon Poetry, 2023) and Alcestis in the Underworld (Circling Rivers Press, 2019), as well as several chapbooks. Her award-winning translations include Oksana Zabuzhko’s Museum of Abandoned Secrets (Amazon Crossing) and Oksana Lutsyshyna’s Ivan and Phoebe (Deep Vellum). Murray is the first translator into English to receive the Drahoman Prize. She is a retired U.S. diplomat. Co-sponsored by: The Department of Slavic Languages and Literature at Stanford University and the Institute of Arts and Humanities and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at UC San Diego. Official event details: https://calendar.ucsd.edu/event/ukrainian-poetry-series-modernist-precursors