“How could there be a war in this city?” is the plaintive question that starts Oksana Makysymchuk’s “Arguments for Peace”. Like ours, the world of her poem holds both the “goodness of the universe” and “a foreign leader / warning of invasion”. She offers no pat answers for what to do in the face of conflict — just a dizzying sense of disbelief and the deep desire to hold tight to the people and life around us.  We invite you to subscribe to <a href="https://poetryunbound.substack.com">Pádraig’s weekly Poetry Unbound Substack</a>, read the <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/books-by-padraig-o-tuama">Poetry Unbound books</a> and his newest work, <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/kitchen-hymns-p-draig-tuama/4f2a036b5d746205?aid=10066&ean=9781556597107&listref=books-by-padraig-o-tuama&next=t">Kitchen Hymns</a>, or <a href="http://onbeing.org/series/poetry-unbound/">listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes</a>.  Oksana Maksymchuk is a bilingual Ukrainian American poet, scholar, and translator. She is the author of poetry collections <a href="https://www.oksanamaksymchuk.com/books">Xenia and Lovy</a> in Ukrainian. She coedited <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/words-for-war-new-poems-from-ukraine-max-rosochinsky/a118038a85df2af7?ean=9781618118615&next=t&aid=10066&listref=featured-on-the-poetry-unbound-podcast">Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine</a>, an anthology of contemporary poetry and has published a few single-author volumes of translations. Born and raised in Lviv, Ukraine, she has also lived in Chicago, Philadelphia, Budapest, Berlin, Warsaw, and Fayetteville, Arkansas. She currently teaches at the University of Chicago.<a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/oksana-maksymchu…uments-for-peace/#transcript">Find the transcript</a> for this show at <a href="http://onbeing.org">onbeing.org</a>. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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