Vasyl Makhno-My Personal History of War
Vasyl Makhno was born in 1964 and has written about war from a distance since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Now, in NYC, he writes verses for a war gone from hybrid to total.
Vasyl Makhno was born in 1964 in the town of Chortkiv in the Ternopil region of Ukraine. He has written about war from a distance since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and now he lives in New York. 鈥淚t seemed to me that I had written my final poem about the war. I wrote a few about Maidan and the events in Donbas and Luhansk. Poetry, of course, should react, and so I reacted. But on February 24 I experienced real shock and pain from the tragic news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I couldn鈥檛 call it anything other than 鈥榃ar.鈥�
Producer-Mark Burman
For more information on all the poets featured in The Essay and the work of Ukrainian war poets go to https://www.wordsforwar.com/
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