06/13/2026
Join poet Borys Khersonsky and translators Svetlana Lavochkina and Oksana Rosenblum for a bilingual reading to celebrate the launch of Khersonsky's new book of poetry, Queen Saturday. Translated from Ukrainian, Queen Saturday brings readers the unique voice of a poet at large in the unbounded spaces of memory. It is the first bilingual collection of Ukrainian verse by Borys Khersonsky—a post-World War II generation poet, clinical psychologist, psychiatrist, and former Soviet dissident.
Hosted by Lost horse Press.
Saturday, June 13, 12PM EDT
About the poet: Borys Khersonsky (b. 1950) is a Jewish-Ukrainian poet, professor of clinical psychology, and practicing psychiatrist. Under Soviet rule, he was a dissident in Odesa and participated in the samizdat movement, which disseminated alternative, non-conformist literature. He is the author of over thirty books of poetry. Having written in Russian for much of his career and held membership in PEN Russia, Khersonsky broke with the Russian literary scene in 2014. Since then, he has written in both Ukrainian and Russian to critical acclaim and recognition from the Shevchenko National Prize in literature.
About the translators:
Svetlana Lavochkina is a Ukrainian-born novelist, poet, and translator residing in Germany. She was runner-up for the Paris Literary Prize, and finalist in both the Tibor&Jones Pageturner Prize and the Million Writers Award. Her novel in verse, Carbon, was published by Lost Horse Press in 2020.
Oksana Rosenblum is a translator and art history researcher based in New York City. She was born and raised in Ukraine but calls NYC her home since 2003. She co-edited a bilingual volume of the early poetry of Mykola Bazhan, an important and prolific 20th century Ukrainian poet (Academic Studies Press, 2020), translated V. Domotovych’s novel On Shaky Ground (Central University Press, 2024), and co-translated Artem Chekh’s novel Rock, Paper, Gr***de (Seven Stories Press, 2025).
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