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.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdralyuk.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdralyuk.bsky.social/post/3mvkvgomdls2mCome one, come all! [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Sep 2026 15:03 +0000at://did:plc:35nkip4rs7bsvecqnzgl5dno/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvkvgomdls2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdralyuk.bsky.social/post/3mvfwqhvhd22pA little elegy for my aunt from the October issue of @theatlantic.com. I am immensely grateful to Walt Hunter for giving it space on the shelf. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/boris-dralyuk-facing-the-music/688345/13 Sep 2026 15:43 +0000at://did:plc:35nkip4rs7bsvecqnzgl5dno/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvfwqhvhd22phttps://bsky.app/profile/bdralyuk.bsky.social/post/3muoyfaor2s2vAn autumnal ballad-sonnet hybrid for Edna St. Vincent Millay, a master of both forms. I thank Ken Gordon of THE SONNETEER for giving my poem a little plot in the sun.04 Sep 2026 12:41 +0000at://did:plc:35nkip4rs7bsvecqnzgl5dno/app.bsky.feed.post/3muoyfaor2s2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdralyuk.bsky.social/post/3mtw4aktdts2iMy translation of “Love Oklahoma” by Oleksandr Irvanets is out in the terrific (and highly appropriately titled) journal OKIE MODERN. As I write in my introduction, Oleksandr Irvanets’s whimsical ode to Oklahoma, which the poet had never visited, was written in 1992. 1/225 Aug 2026 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:35nkip4rs7bsvecqnzgl5dno/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtw4aktdts2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/bdralyuk.bsky.social/post/3mtlue4jkxk22Poems that stun me on each read. Here is the one by @zinagomezliss.bsky.social. Click through for the one by Paula Bohince. [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2026 13:26 +0000at://did:plc:35nkip4rs7bsvecqnzgl5dno/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtlue4jkxk22https://bsky.app/profile/bdralyuk.bsky.social/post/3mtk4tc5gik2oA little story about two fine, forgotten poets: https://borisdralyuk.substack.com/p/a-strange-meeting-myron-h-broomell https://borisdralyuk.substack.com/p/a-strange-meeting-myron-h-broomell?r=6i6f&utm_medium=ios20 Aug 2026 20:52 +0000at://did:plc:35nkip4rs7bsvecqnzgl5dno/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtk4tc5gik2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/bdralyuk.bsky.social/post/3msmbbcwqqk2kSpend an hour with Ange Mlinko, Michael Caines, and me as we discuss the work of Henri Coulette (1927-1988), whose NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, which Michael and I co-edited, is now available from @carcanet.bsky.social: youtu.be/WodlOh5NjMY https://youtu.be/WodlOh5NjMY08 Aug 2026 23:51 +0000at://did:plc:35nkip4rs7bsvecqnzgl5dno/app.bsky.feed.post/3msmbbcwqqk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/bdralyuk.bsky.social/post/3mseh6nrkos2aThe great Cynthia Haven weighs in, briefly, on Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED in @thetls.bsky.social! “Brilliantly translated… Voloshin attempts to come to grips with the sweep of the twentieth century, from the Revolution to Pearl Harbor.” @pauldrybooks.bsky.social https://www.the-tls.com/regular-features/in-brief/sidetracked-alexander-voloshin-book-review-cynthia-haven05 Aug 2026 21:16 +0000at://did:plc:35nkip4rs7bsvecqnzgl5dno/app.bsky.feed.post/3mseh6nrkos2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/bdralyuk.bsky.social/post/3msbtknsvos2jWhat a perceptive and moving conclusion to @nadyawilliams81.bsky.social’s new review of Andrey Kurkov’s Kyiv Mysteries in @plough.bosky.social… Thank you! @quercusbooks.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social https://www.plough.com/articles/andrey-kurkovs-kyiv-mysteries04 Aug 2026 20:20 +0000at://did:plc:35nkip4rs7bsvecqnzgl5dno/app.bsky.feed.post/3msbtknsvos2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdralyuk.bsky.social/post/3mrun3p2qck24Readers, I implore you, listen to Eric Bies and get yourselves to @pauldrybooks.bsky.social! Voloshin awaits! [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jul 2026 14:19 +0000at://did:plc:35nkip4rs7bsvecqnzgl5dno/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrun3p2qck24https://bsky.app/profile/bdralyuk.bsky.social/post/3mruiljwfps2dTo be read at all, much less so appreciatively, is a great privilege… Thank you again, @ocregister.bsky.social! [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jul 2026 12:59 +0000at://did:plc:35nkip4rs7bsvecqnzgl5dno/app.bsky.feed.post/3mruiljwfps2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdralyuk.bsky.social/post/3mri22osl3c2jMissing LA this morning, I posted a brief poem by a fellow Odesa-born émigré, Viktor Rayzman (b. 1934), with whom I must have ridden this very bus route at least once…25 Jul 2026 14:07 +0000at://did:plc:35nkip4rs7bsvecqnzgl5dno/app.bsky.feed.post/3mri22osl3c2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdralyuk.bsky.social/post/3mqcbvf3aq22kLinger over that perfect line break in the closing couplet of this poem, or over the rhymes of the second in the link, and you will come to appreciate just how hard this soi-disant “minor poet” has fought to “to be good in his own way.” I love these translations! [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Jul 2026 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:35nkip4rs7bsvecqnzgl5dno/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqcbvf3aq22khttps://bsky.app/profile/bdralyuk.bsky.social/post/3mqa6p7ok6225Instructive story about holding personal subjects at a slight distance in poems. Thomas Hardy wrote this after his cat’s death. Florence, his young love, objected to the line calling the cat the “only friend.” H. assured her that the man was not him, just one in his situation.09 Jul 2026 17:43 +0000at://did:plc:35nkip4rs7bsvecqnzgl5dno/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqa6p7ok6225https://bsky.app/profile/bdralyuk.bsky.social/post/3mq5co7ov5c2zI’m in this week’s @thetls.bsky.social, reviewing Maxim Tarnawsky’s translation of a Ukrainian classic, Valerian Pidmohylnyi’s THE CITY (1928), which is a hit in wartime Kyiv—and also offering a little background on the “Executed Renaissance” and Russia’s long war against Ukrainian culture.08 Jul 2026 14:16 +0000at://did:plc:35nkip4rs7bsvecqnzgl5dno/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq5co7ov5c2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/bdralyuk.bsky.social/post/3mp6zn7uvg22vCharles Martin, one of my favorite poets, shares a story about his mother’s brush with history. For the other poem, by @azforeman, click through: https://nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/history-advancing-its-great-plot [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Jun 2026 13:15 +0000at://did:plc:35nkip4rs7bsvecqnzgl5dno/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp6zn7uvg22v