Boris Dralyuk

I wrote this with my colleague Liz DeOrnellas. There is another disturbing facet to this story we hope to report in coming days if we can pin it down.

I am deeply saddened by the news of Jane’s death. I never met her, but she was a boisterous, provocative, funny online penpal, and, most importantly, a poet of rare lyric grace. It was an honor to publish the poem below earlier this summer.

Jane was a remarkable poet and a sweet and funny woman. I hoped to meet her in person someday. Please say a prayer.

Starvation, once in motion, even after food & medical care become availabe, remains irreversible for so many of its victims. It's a greater sin than the sin itself to be have spoken only after the sight of skin-on-bones killed Palestinians. An unforgiveable "theology of empire."

My interview for The Ukrainians - on postcolonialism, western cultural biases, translation, Ukrainian-Scottish parallels and more - is now available in English. Thanks again to @BohdanaNeborak for the conversation. theukrainians.org/en/uilleam-bla…

Follow-up to the story about the grandfather taken by ICE mcall.com/2025/07/20/ice…

As a former foreign student, I’ve been especially horrified by the Trump admin’s attack on students like Rümeysa Öztürk. I wrote a short piece about it in the summer issue of @readliberties

At the height of Great Depression as many as 10,000 Americans moved to Soviet Union. At first welcomed. There was the Foreign Workers' Club of Moscow baseball team that played regular games in Gorky Park. Then gulags.

The LA Times photo below was taken at the Hollywood Bowl in 1938. The fourth man from the left is Alexander Voloshin, whose poem SIDETRACKED: EXILE IN HOLLYWOOD will appear from @PaulDryBooks in April 2026. Here I give some context to the shot: bdralyuk.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/no-…

A beautiful poem by @famous_letter in @NimrodJournal . And a lesson in creative allusivity. Thank you. This got me. "He was full of sleep and not enough."

The Russian Revolution forced his family to flee. So Dukelsky came to New York as a refugee in 1921. Here he changed his name, and reinvented himself as songwriter Vernon Duke: April in Paris, I Can't Get Started, Taking a Chance on Love, Autumn in NY,... honest-broker.com/p/how-an-exile…

"In lieu of flowers, he said Words but words, in lieu of flowers, are not enough." Eulogy for Dada (Who Loved to Waltz) by @famous_letter @NimrodJournal

Another tragedy, after many nights of deadly drone attacks on civilians. The Aero Club has seen its share of heroes since 1908. I relate its history and lit. legacy here, translating a poem by Osip Kolychev (1904-73): bdralyuk.wordpress.com/2020/03/07/the… The sweet, nostalgic poem begins…

I read The Stolen Heart, by Andrey Kurkov (2025 translation by Boris Dralyuk). Further adventures of the young Ukrainian police investigator in this second installment of The Kyiv Mysteries series. @AKurkov @BorisDralyuk

University of Tulsa students have started a petition to save their Honors College and have asked me to share with my followers here. If you are inclined to support these students in their goal to recover what was lost, you can sign here: change.org/Protect_UTulsa…

putting the da back in dada thanks to @NimrodJournal & @BorisDralyuk

I love it when famous fathers get together.

“Wrote a picture”? That clinches it—the man is indeed a Russian asset.

Django’s was one of my favourite stories to tell in ‘The Roma’!

Me encantó charlar con la muy genia y divertida Laura Fernández (@el_pais) sobre mi novela La extinción de Irena Rey (@AnagramaEditor) y su magnífica traducción de Regina López Muñoz (entre otras cosas)! elpais.com/cultura/2025-0…