Christian Nationalism is a Cult of Convenience

Today, Easter is being celebrated in Ukraine.
It is one of the most beloved holidays🇺🇦

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That was the shortest ceasefire ever.

"There’s something about a trash bin piled high with cardboard boxes and discarded IT cables that makes you contemplate your mortality."

Full of color, imagery & wit, two new #poems from the splendid @nyurtsaba.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/nicol...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

The cover of The Pugilist and the Sailor, by Nadia Ragbar. It shows the silhouette outline of two men in a boxing ring. Through the ropes, the viewer can see a red wall with what looks like a green curtain hanging down over the top half of it

Read @nyurtsaba.bsky.social's review of Nadia Ragbar's The Pugilist and the Sailor (pub. Invisible) in Issue 34!

...At times, the chapters seem more like a clear, well-taken photograph than a series of words on the page...

www.thetemzreview.com/yurcaba-ragb...

Friends,

Pre-orders for HUTSULKA, my poetry chapbook of feminist odes about the war in Ukraine, close soon: riverpawpress.com/hutsulka/.

Please consider ordering a copy! It would mean the world to me!

Nikola

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Mystical Russian expats untangle dark family secrets in 1920s Paris. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/t... @berkleypub.bsky.social @nyurtsaba.bsky.social #booksky

I'm cringing with embarrassment that an American president wrote this. Absolutely cringing.

Why does Trump want to increase the defense budget by almost 50%? Because he sees it as a payoff to the guys who will help him establish his dictatorship of convenience.

Hutsulka by Nicole Yurtcaba in paperback on a yellow outdoor rug.

Whatever scream you can't get out, I urge you to read this collection. I am changed in its pages.

Thank you, @nyurtsaba.bsky.social for your art and for sharing it. #BookSky

My review at: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

époque press | ezine | ritual | nicole yurcaba Epoque Press, Independent Publishers

Many thanks to @epoquepress.bsky.social for publishing three of my poems. These poems were written during/after I attended the John Hewitt International Summer School in Armagh, Northern Ireland: www.epoquepress.com/ezine-ritual...

My poem "Under a Sky that Never Cared Less," a poem I wrote while attending the John Hewitt International Summer School, has been published at Litmosphere: litmosphere.charlottelit.org/issues/2026s...

Diagram. How to tell if Russia is lying? Step 1: Russia speaks? Arrow to step 2. Step 2: Yes. Arrow to step 3. Step 3: Russia is lying.

True.

Dear friends,

Pre-orders for HUTSULKA close in mid-April. Please consider ordering a copy before then. These feminist odes about the war in Ukraine are a unique contribution to the ever-growing canon of Ukrainian / Ukrainian diaspora literature.

riverpawpress.com/index.php/hu...

“Nowhere” Delivers Grisly, Supernatural, Appalachian Horror The philosophical takes in Alison Gunn’s “Nowhere” combines small-town dynamics with all the best components of horror writing to create a genre-bending page turner.

"Its philosophical takes on small-town dynamics combine with all the best components of horror writing to create a genre-bending page turner."

@nyurtsaba.bsky.social reviews NOWHERE by Allison Gunn, now in paperback! @atriabooks.bsky.social

Thank you. This means so much.

Thank you so much!

‘A toxic punch’: fears Russia’s war is pushing the Black Sea and its dolphins past tipping point As species vanish and the unique ecosystem radically changes, Ukrainian scientists can only wait until it is safe to properly assess the damage

Depressing.

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Today we’re supporting @doko-dochky.bsky.social to equip the medics of 𝗦𝗕𝗨 “𝗔𝗹𝗽𝗵𝗮” with portable ventilators...🧵⤵️1/3

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Excited to get this new chapbook by @nyurtsaba.bsky.social, with whom I share Lemko heritage on one side of my family.

But when you work and, most importantly, believe in yourself, that’s when things start to happen.

And I’m truly grateful to you for believing in me and supporting my work.
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Dear friends,
My chapbook HUTSULKA is still available for preorder. HUTSULKA is a series of feminist odes--rooted in Ukrainian traditions & folklore, current events, etc.--about the war in Ukraine. Preorder from @riverpawpress.bsky.social: riverpawpress.com/index.php/hu...

New in Ukrainian literature: Serhiy Zhadan's ARABESQUES; Daniel Moysaenko's OVERTAKELESSNESS; MY CUT-OPEN PALM: UKRAINIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION, trans. by Oleksandr Frazé-Frazénko

New in Ukrainian literature: Serhiy Zhadan's ARABESQUES; Daniel Moysaenko's OVERTAKELESSNESS; MY CUT-OPEN PALM: UKRAINIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION, trans. by Oleksandr Frazé-Frazénko

Friends,

My chapbook HUTSULKA, a series of feminist odes about the war in Ukraine, is still available for preorder from! I hope you'll purchase a copy: riverpawpress.com/index.php/hu.... Please continue to stand with Ukraine and support Ukrainian/Ukrainian diaspora literature!

“I’m proud to have been born Ukrainian”: a review of Dimko Zhluktenko’s Ordinary Guy at War Many memoirs concerning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine understandably focus on the battlefield. However, a lot of fundraising has gone into helping those on the front line. Dimko Zhluktenko’s new book o...

Thank you to @neweasterneurope.eu for publishing my review of @dim0kq.bsky.social's book ORDINARY GUY AT WAR: neweasterneurope.eu/2026/03/17/i.... Please read this important book!

Friends,

My chapbook HUTSULKA, a series of feminist odes about the war in Ukraine, is still available for preorder from! I hope you'll purchase a copy: riverpawpress.com/index.php/hu.... Please continue to stand with Ukraine and support Ukrainian/Ukrainian diaspora literature!

Hutsulka, the 2025 Silent River Poetry Prize Finalist by Nicole Yurcaba is now open for pre-order at: riverpawpress.com/index.php/hu...

During the pre-sale period, River Paw Press is offering Hutsulka at a special price of $16.00, with free shipping within the United States. @nyurtsaba.bsky.social

Friends,

My chapbook HUTSULKA is available for pre-orders: riverpawpress.com/index.php/hu.... I hope you'll consider pre-ordering, as it really does help me. These are intimate poems I composed during the first year of the war in Ukraine.