This week, Nadiia (https://www.facebook.com/nadiiia.art) and I, Imogen Arate (https://poetsandmuses.com/imogen-arate/), discuss our respective poems, "The War" and "If Not Now, When?" and coping with feeling helpless in the face of overwhelming odds.
Donate to support Ukraine: https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-spetsrahunok-dlya-zboru-koshtiv-na-potrebi-armiyi
You can read Nadiia's poem at: https://www.facebook.com/nadiiia.art/posts/523551418340658
Check out this episode to also hear about virtual poetry events taking place during the week of August 17th.
Photo provided by Nadiia Telenchuk.
Links to topics we touched on:
1. Heart of Ukraine, the nonprofit organization Nadiia is involved with: http://heartforukraine.com/
2. Information about Crimea and the Ukrainian separatist movement: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-18287223
3. Ukraine’s Internally Displaced Persons: https://www.unhcr.org/ua/en/internally-displaced-persons
4. Latest attempt at ceasefire in the Ukrainian conflict: https://www.euronews.com/2020/07/27/cease-fire-in-war-torn-eastern-ukraine-begins-after-six-years-of-conflict
5. History of the Ukrainian language: https://guides.library.illinois.edu/ukrainian_language
6. Yemen crisis: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-explainer/why-yemen-is-at-war-idUSKCN22924D and https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29319423
7. US involvement in Yemen: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/11/mike-pompeo-arms-sales-saudi-arabia-watchdog-report
8. Yemen’s civilian crisis: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/yemen-war-hunger-famine-coronavirus-2020-date-palms-hodeidah-a9646226.html
9. Feeling helpless in the face of mass suffering: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_renew_your_compassion_in_the_face_of_suffering and https://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2007/11/slovic
10. Connection between violence and temperature rise: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/07/16/two-new-studies-warn-that-hotter-world-will-be-more-violent-one/
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