When my friends in the U.S. worry about my visits to my homeland, I remind them that our lives are filled with danger, too. We may not call it ‘war,’ but the sense of vulnerability, fragility, and proximity to catastrophe is not dissimilar.
- Oksana Maksymchuk
In this beautiful and thought-provoking essay, Cheuse Center Scholar Oksana Maksymchuk challenges how we think about danger, resilience, and what it really means to feel secure—drawing powerful comparisons between life in Ukraine and everyday America.
Oksana is a Ukrainian American poet, scholar, and literary translator. Her debut English-language poetry collection Still City was long-listed for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize and the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry.
Read the article here. By Oksana Maksymchuk | Contributor | June 23, 2025, at 3:57 p.m.
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July 01, 2025