Boris Dralyuk
@bdralyuk.bsky.social
My Hollywood & Other Poems (Paul Dry Books); translate Babel, Zoshchenko, Kurkov, et al.; odds & ends @nybooks.com, @thetls.bsky.social, etc.; teach at @utulsa.bsky.social; EiC @nimrodjournal.bsky.social
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Boris Dralyuk
@bdralyuk.bsky.social
· Sep 5
It feels right to see the faces of so many hopeful and weary, desperate and giddy men just outside the gates of success on the cover of SIDETRACKED. Voloshin’s poignant, funny poem ennobles their dreams and struggles as much as it does his own. Thank you, @pauldrybooks.bsky.social!
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I have great confidence in @bdralyuk.bsky.social who does the coolest stuff
I hold in my hands a finished copy of the strangest and most wonderful little book, Alexander Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED: EXILE IN HOLLYWOOD. Not officially out until April 21, but I bet @pauldrybooks.bsky.social won’t stand on ceremony. Order it now, won’t you? www.pauldrybooks.com/products/sid...
February 18, 2026 at 4:49 PM
I have great confidence in @bdralyuk.bsky.social who does the coolest stuff
I hold in my hands a finished copy of the strangest and most wonderful little book, Alexander Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED: EXILE IN HOLLYWOOD. Not officially out until April 21, but I bet @pauldrybooks.bsky.social won’t stand on ceremony. Order it now, won’t you? www.pauldrybooks.com/products/sid...
February 18, 2026 at 4:44 PM
I hold in my hands a finished copy of the strangest and most wonderful little book, Alexander Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED: EXILE IN HOLLYWOOD. Not officially out until April 21, but I bet @pauldrybooks.bsky.social won’t stand on ceremony. Order it now, won’t you? www.pauldrybooks.com/products/sid...
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This arrived today! Thank you!
February 14, 2026 at 11:30 PM
This arrived today! Thank you!
Two piercing poems, beginning with this one, by Will Wells.
February 13, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Two piercing poems, beginning with this one, by Will Wells.
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Sad, powerful
Reading through Sourav Roy and Tuhin Bhowal’s fine anthology of contemporary Hindi poetry, PERENNIAL, I was stopped cold by Seth Michelson’s razor-sharp translation of Rati Saxena’s devastating “Refugee”—a poem for our time, for all times.
“…like kites holding tight / to the ruins…”
“…like kites holding tight / to the ruins…”
February 6, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Sad, powerful
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One of those moments an editor—this editor, at least—dreams of.
February 6, 2026 at 3:41 PM
One of those moments an editor—this editor, at least—dreams of.
February 6, 2026 at 2:41 PM
One of those moments an editor—this editor, at least—dreams of.
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"they settled on this land
the way ice floats on a glass of juice"
the way ice floats on a glass of juice"
Reading through Sourav Roy and Tuhin Bhowal’s fine anthology of contemporary Hindi poetry, PERENNIAL, I was stopped cold by Seth Michelson’s razor-sharp translation of Rati Saxena’s devastating “Refugee”—a poem for our time, for all times.
“…like kites holding tight / to the ruins…”
“…like kites holding tight / to the ruins…”
February 5, 2026 at 6:20 PM
"they settled on this land
the way ice floats on a glass of juice"
the way ice floats on a glass of juice"
Reading through Sourav Roy and Tuhin Bhowal’s fine anthology of contemporary Hindi poetry, PERENNIAL, I was stopped cold by Seth Michelson’s razor-sharp translation of Rati Saxena’s devastating “Refugee”—a poem for our time, for all times.
“…like kites holding tight / to the ruins…”
“…like kites holding tight / to the ruins…”
February 5, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Reading through Sourav Roy and Tuhin Bhowal’s fine anthology of contemporary Hindi poetry, PERENNIAL, I was stopped cold by Seth Michelson’s razor-sharp translation of Rati Saxena’s devastating “Refugee”—a poem for our time, for all times.
“…like kites holding tight / to the ruins…”
“…like kites holding tight / to the ruins…”
I was lucky enough to add my two cents on Weldon Kees to Dana Gioia’s engrossing film at roughly the 35-minute mark. Do give it a watch. Kees will hook you for life. youtube.com/watch?v=k9GP...
Weldon Kees: The Disappearing Poet
YouTube video by Dana Gioia
m.youtube.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:32 PM
I was lucky enough to add my two cents on Weldon Kees to Dana Gioia’s engrossing film at roughly the 35-minute mark. Do give it a watch. Kees will hook you for life. youtube.com/watch?v=k9GP...
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This morning our newsletter readers received Mays Kuhail’s mstory “Between the Seas,” which was awarded second place in our annual Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction competition by Nancy Jooyoun Kim (@nancyjooyounkim.bsky.social). nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/between-th...
Between the Seas
A story by Mays Kuhail
nimrodjournal.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:25 PM
This morning our newsletter readers received Mays Kuhail’s mstory “Between the Seas,” which was awarded second place in our annual Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction competition by Nancy Jooyoun Kim (@nancyjooyounkim.bsky.social). nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/between-th...
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Thank you, @bdralyuk.bsky.social. The newly remade @nimrodjournal.bsky.social is so good, and I'm glad this anti-to-do-list has a home there. 💚
Today our newsletter readers received two poems from our Winter 2026 issue by Anna Lena Phillips Bells. These took second place in our annual Pablo Neruda contest, judged by @randallmann.bsky.social and are featured in the poet’s new Anthony Hecht Prize-winning collection, MIGHT COULD.
January 23, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Thank you, @bdralyuk.bsky.social. The newly remade @nimrodjournal.bsky.social is so good, and I'm glad this anti-to-do-list has a home there. 💚
Today our newsletter readers received two poems from our Winter 2026 issue by Anna Lena Phillips Bells. These took second place in our annual Pablo Neruda contest, judged by @randallmann.bsky.social and are featured in the poet’s new Anthony Hecht Prize-winning collection, MIGHT COULD.
January 23, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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So glad to see one of my favorite poets, Karen Solie, the ambitious and gifted Canadian poet, has just won a big award: www.theguardian.com/.../karen-so....
Not enough of my American poet friends have read her work.
#poets #Canada
@bdralyuk.bsky.social
Not enough of my American poet friends have read her work.
#poets #Canada
@bdralyuk.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 3:31 PM
So glad to see one of my favorite poets, Karen Solie, the ambitious and gifted Canadian poet, has just won a big award: www.theguardian.com/.../karen-so....
Not enough of my American poet friends have read her work.
#poets #Canada
@bdralyuk.bsky.social
Not enough of my American poet friends have read her work.
#poets #Canada
@bdralyuk.bsky.social
Lord help me, I have entered the sonnet discourse—but for a good cause. My latest for @thetls.bsky.social is a review of Paul Muldoon’s wide-ranging SCANTY PLOT OF GROUND: www.the-tls.com/literature/p...
January 21, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Lord help me, I have entered the sonnet discourse—but for a good cause. My latest for @thetls.bsky.social is a review of Paul Muldoon’s wide-ranging SCANTY PLOT OF GROUND: www.the-tls.com/literature/p...
“The verse is light and bouncy, preventing the narrative from ever feeling heavy… [Voloshin] insists on always looking on or seeing the bright side—even as that occasionally requires some contortions.”
No need to contort this bright review of SIDETRACKED! www.complete-review.com/reviews/russ...
No need to contort this bright review of SIDETRACKED! www.complete-review.com/reviews/russ...
Sidetracked - Alexander Voloshin
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of Sidetracked by Alexander Voloshin.
www.complete-review.com
January 19, 2026 at 10:33 PM
“The verse is light and bouncy, preventing the narrative from ever feeling heavy… [Voloshin] insists on always looking on or seeing the bright side—even as that occasionally requires some contortions.”
No need to contort this bright review of SIDETRACKED! www.complete-review.com/reviews/russ...
No need to contort this bright review of SIDETRACKED! www.complete-review.com/reviews/russ...
As I watch the eager agents of cruelty go about their work and wonder what will become of them, I think of this monster, Vasily Blokhin (1895-1955), responsible for tens of thousands of executions. Forced into retirement after Stalin’s death, he turned the gun on himself at 60.
January 17, 2026 at 2:21 PM
As I watch the eager agents of cruelty go about their work and wonder what will become of them, I think of this monster, Vasily Blokhin (1895-1955), responsible for tens of thousands of executions. Forced into retirement after Stalin’s death, he turned the gun on himself at 60.
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Here's the new @nimrodjournal.bsky.social, looking ✨✨✨. It has two poems from MIGHT COULD, including this one. Thanks to editor @bdralyuk.bsky.social, and to @randallmann.bsky.social, judge for the Neruda Prize, for naming this poem second place and for his comments. 💚
January 16, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Here's the new @nimrodjournal.bsky.social, looking ✨✨✨. It has two poems from MIGHT COULD, including this one. Thanks to editor @bdralyuk.bsky.social, and to @randallmann.bsky.social, judge for the Neruda Prize, for naming this poem second place and for his comments. 💚
A beautiful sight, if I do say so myself…
We’re three issues in to the new run of NIMROD, redesigned by @utulsa.bsky.social’s own M. Wright. Our gratitude to the university, where the journal was founded 70 years ago, and to you, our subscribers and supporters, is boundless!
January 15, 2026 at 2:54 PM
A beautiful sight, if I do say so myself…
Esther Allen (@eallen.bsky.social) can spin the woolliest yarn with scholarly precision… You know who else was known for such things?
January 14, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Esther Allen (@eallen.bsky.social) can spin the woolliest yarn with scholarly precision… You know who else was known for such things?
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We have a fascinating behind-the-scenes interview for you today! Translator Boris Dralyuk on the music of language, softening difficult messages for children, what makes Who Will Make the Snow? distinctly Ukrainian...and his creative collaboration with Jennifer Croft
worldkidlit.org/2026/01/12/i...
worldkidlit.org/2026/01/12/i...
January 14, 2026 at 9:30 AM
We have a fascinating behind-the-scenes interview for you today! Translator Boris Dralyuk on the music of language, softening difficult messages for children, what makes Who Will Make the Snow? distinctly Ukrainian...and his creative collaboration with Jennifer Croft
worldkidlit.org/2026/01/12/i...
worldkidlit.org/2026/01/12/i...
Katy Dycus and I spoke about the Prokhaskos’ WHO WILL MAKE THE SNOW? some months ago. This winter, as Russia relentlessly bombards cities and energy stations, plunging Ukraine into freezing darkness, the book feels more necessary than ever. @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social worldkidlit.org/2026/01/12/i...
January 13, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Katy Dycus and I spoke about the Prokhaskos’ WHO WILL MAKE THE SNOW? some months ago. This winter, as Russia relentlessly bombards cities and energy stations, plunging Ukraine into freezing darkness, the book feels more necessary than ever. @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social worldkidlit.org/2026/01/12/i...
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Each fate is like the history of a planet.
——
When people die, they do not die alone.
They die along with their first kiss,
first combat
They take away their first day in the snow
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko, “People”
trans. Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social
#everynightapoem
——
When people die, they do not die alone.
They die along with their first kiss,
first combat
They take away their first day in the snow
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko, “People”
trans. Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social
#everynightapoem
January 10, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Each fate is like the history of a planet.
——
When people die, they do not die alone.
They die along with their first kiss,
first combat
They take away their first day in the snow
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko, “People”
trans. Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social
#everynightapoem
——
When people die, they do not die alone.
They die along with their first kiss,
first combat
They take away their first day in the snow
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko, “People”
trans. Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social
#everynightapoem
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We’re thrilled to reveal the cover of our Winter 2026 issue, which is already reaching subscribers! Take a look at the contents here: nimrod.utulsa.edu/current-issue/
January 8, 2026 at 4:12 PM
We’re thrilled to reveal the cover of our Winter 2026 issue, which is already reaching subscribers! Take a look at the contents here: nimrod.utulsa.edu/current-issue/
A new poetry project, The Sonneteer, has brought me doses of pleasure and stimulation every other day since it launched. Today its editor, Ken Gordon, has shared my curtal sonnet—inspired by faded signs on brick buildings around LA and Tulsa, offering furnished rooms to let, etc.
January 7, 2026 at 1:48 PM
A new poetry project, The Sonneteer, has brought me doses of pleasure and stimulation every other day since it launched. Today its editor, Ken Gordon, has shared my curtal sonnet—inspired by faded signs on brick buildings around LA and Tulsa, offering furnished rooms to let, etc.