Razom Literature is pleased to announce the U.S. tour of author and senior corporal in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Yaryna Chornohuz, organized and supported by Razom for Ukraine.
Yaryna Chornohuz is a winner of the Shevchenko Prize for poetry (2024), Ukraine’s highest state award for culture, literature, and the arts, as well as the author of three collections of poetry. Since 2019, Chornohuz has served as a soldier and medic in the Ukrainian military, and she was awarded a Medal for Lifesaving in 2022. She has been included in Focus magazine’s list of 100 most influential women in Ukraine and has appeared in New Yorker and New York Times profiles for her poetry, activism, and military service. Before joining the Armed Forces, Chornohuz studied philology at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
Chornohuz’s U.S. tour will bring her to Boston (October 15-16, 2026), Penn State (October 22-23, 2026), Washington D.C. (October 27, 2026), New York City (October 28 and November 1, 2026), Yale University (October 30, 2026), San Diego (November 3-4, 2026), Portland, Oregon (November 7, 2026), the University of Kansas (November 9, 2026), and Chicago (November 12-15, 2026). She will draw on her experience to discuss how poetry bears witness to a nation at war. For more detailed information, please see below.
📍 Boston
- Fall 2026 Book Launch @ Grolier Poetry Bookshop
When: October 15, 2026; 7:00pm
Where: Grolier Poetry Bookshop in Cambridge, MA - Ukrainian Democracy and Society in a Long War of Attrition @ Tufts Fletcher School
When: October 16, 2026; 4:00pm-5:30pm
Where: Cabot 702, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy [160 Packard Ave, Medford, MA 02155]
📍 Penn State
- A Poet in Times of War: bilingual reading
When: October 23, 2026; 3:30-5:00 pm
Where: Penn State University Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages, 262 Willard Building
📍 Washington D.C.
- Book Club: Yaryna Chornohuz. Poetry Reading and Book Signing
When: October 27, 2026; 6:00pm
Where: Ukraine House [2134 Kalorama Rd NW]
📍 New York City
- Poet as Witness: Ukrainian Poets in Defense of Their Countryat Ukrainian Cultural Festival
When: October 28, 2026; 7:00pm-9:00pm
Where: Poets House [10 River Terrace] - Ukrainian Poetry Outburst
When: November 1, 2026; 2:00pm-4:00pm
Where: Ukrainian National Home [140 2nd Avenue] - Yale University
When: October 30, 2026; 4:30pm
Where: Yale University Campus
📍 San Diego
- Verses from the War: An Evening with Yaryna Chornohuz & Amelia Glaser
When: November 3, 2026; 6:30pm
Where: Verbatim Books [3793 30th St, San Diego, CA] - New Writing Series: Yaryna Chornohuz and Amelia Glaser
When: November 4, 2026; 8:00pm-10:00pm
Where: UC San Diego Geisel Library, Seuss Room [9701 Hopkins Drive, La Jolla, CA]
📍 Portland, Oregon
- Words at War: Ukrainian Poet Yaryna Chornohuz in Conversation
When: November 7, 2026; 4:00pm-5:00pm
Where: World Oregon [1207 SW Broadway, Suite 300 Portland, OR]
📍 Kansas
- What We Defend: Poetry and Conversation with Yaryna Chornohuz at the University of Kansas
When: November 11, 2026; 5:00pm
Where: University of Kansas
📍 Chicago
- Ukrainian Poetry Reading @ ASEEES
When: November 14, 2026; 8:15pm-9:45pm
Where: ASEEES
