Marianna Kiyanovska, one of Ukraine’s most acclaimed poets, will read from her renowned work The Voices of Babyn Yar (trans. by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky), which won the Shevchenko Prize, Ukraine’s highest honor for works of literature and culture, as well as the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award and the Peterson Literary Award. In conversation with Alex Averbuch, Kiyanovska will discuss Ukraine’s past and present, exploring its horrors and inspirations, as well as its rich multiculturalism and multiethnicity.