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Ukrinform has prepared a selection of English-language books dedicated to Ukraine-related topics and published this year.

Mosab Abu Toha’s whereabouts remain unknown. The 30-year-old father of three has written extensively for U.S. publications about the Israel-Hamas war’s toll in Gaza.

An acclaimed Palestinian poet who spent time at Harvard University as a visiting scholar was recently abducted in Gaza by Israeli military personnel and “interrogated and beaten” before he was released, according to relatives and supporters.

Mosab Abu Toha’s whereabouts remain unknown. The 30-year-old father of three has written extensively for U.S. publications about the war’s toll in Gaza.

The biennial Princeton Poetry Festival, organized by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, returns with a full day of readings, panel discussions and a lecture featuring poets from around the world: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Joyelle McSweeney, Valzhyna Mort, John Okrent, Roger Reeves, Padraig Regan, Philip Schultz, and Luci Tapahonso. Day-long festival runs 10:30 AM – 5:30 PM. Free and open to public; no tickets required.

A roundup of literary events from around the region.

On Oct. 3-4, the University of Central Arkansas School of Language and Literature, along with the UCA Creative Writing Program, will host a campus visit by internally acclaimed poet, editor,

Now it seems to me like I always knew Vika Amelina. It is notable that later Vika would organize a literary festival at the town with the same name, but located in Ukraine, in Donetsk Oblast, not on the shore of the Hudson River. Ukraine has its own New York, a town once founded by the Mennonite community, a town that was dear to Victoria’s heart.

Millersville University event to further explore genocide, Holocaust; speakers include poet Lyudmyla Khersonska of Ukraine.

Two books of essays on the work of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott were published in 2022. These are among the first of reflective reviews...