For its January 2024 All Lesley Reads Visiting Writer Series, Lesley University’s MFA Program in
Creative Writing is honored to sponsor an international conversation and reading with Ukrainian poet and translator, Yuliya Musakovska; poet and translator Olena Jennings; and essayist, novelist, and poet,
Askold Melnyczuk, founder of the celebrated literary magazine AGNI and currently publisher of
Arrowsmith Press.

From 3:00 to 4:00, Askold and Olena will join Yuliya from Ukraine, for a conversation about poetry,
literature, translation, writing, and the arts in Ukraine now and in the past, exploring what it means to
work as an international artist during war. From 4:00 to 5:00, Yuliya will read from her poetry.
Questions and responses will be invited after each event. This event will be both in person and online.