Stephen Komarnyckyj's Avatar

Stephen Komarnyckyj

@komarnyckyj

PEN award winning poet and translator at Kalyna Language Press, who is trying to save every abandoned dog on earth and return lost Ukrainian authors to the world. #FBPE #Ukraine #Poetry

8,518
Followers
7,231
Following
4,175
Posts
19.09.2023
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by Stephen Komarnyckyj @komarnyckyj

Video thumbnail

A little bit of hope

John Bonifaz, Constitutional Attorney and President of 'Free Speech for People' speaks out for Americans.

30.01.2026 02:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 1538 ๐Ÿ” 807 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 59 ๐Ÿ“Œ 53
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. Itโ€™s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

28.01.2026 17:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 97505 ๐Ÿ” 40892 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4301 ๐Ÿ“Œ 5365
Condensation on window. Text over photo reads: brushing the uneven ground the way a pianist coaxes a piano. Title reads: TThe mirror in your Apartment. Bottom text reads: Steve Komarnyckyj (C)

Condensation on window. Text over photo reads: brushing the uneven ground the way a pianist coaxes a piano. Title reads: TThe mirror in your Apartment. Bottom text reads: Steve Komarnyckyj (C)

Steve Komarnyckyj's 'TThe mirror in your Apartment' is a solemn account of personal grief, creating sound from the absence our loved ones leave.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/steve-komarn...

#InkSweatAndTears #FeaturedPoems

28.01.2026 10:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A ya think headline from the Guardian.

14.01.2026 14:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Preview
ะ‘ั€ะธั‚ะฐะฝััŒะบะธะน ะตะบัะฟะตั€ั‚ ะทะฐัั‚ะตั€ั–ะณะฐั” ะ„ะฒั€ะพะฟัƒ ะฒั–ะด "ั‡ะตั€ะฒะพะฝะพ-ะบะพั€ะธั‡ะฝะตะฒะพะณะพ ัะพัŽะทัƒ" ะ„ะฒั€ะพัะพัŽะท ะฟะพะฒะธะฝะตะฝ ั‚ะธัะฝัƒั‚ะธ ะฝะฐ ะ ะพัั–ัŽ ัะฐะฝะบั†ั–ัะผะธ, ั‰ะพะฑ ะดะพะฟะพะผะพะณั‚ะธ ะฃะบั€ะฐั—ะฝั– ัƒ ะฟั€ะพั‚ะธัั‚ะพัะฝะฝั– ั€ะพัั–ะนััŒะบั–ะน ะฐะณั€ะตัั–ั— ั‚ะฐ ัƒะฑะตะทะฟะตั‡ะธั‚ะธ ัะตะฑะต ะฒั–ะด "ั‡ะตั€ะฒะพะฝะพ-ะบะพั€ะธั‡ะฝะตะฒะธั…" ัะธะป. โ€” ะฃะบั€ั–ะฝั„ะพั€ะผ.

www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-polyt... I warned about this, well the red brown alliance, in 2016.

14.01.2026 13:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You will all have to start seeing the overwhelming imperialism of Russians. Only Ukrainians and the colonised peoples really fight the empire. Russians have an internal struggle to be the next Tsar. Putin is simply a Russian. Navalny would have been the next Putin.

14.01.2026 13:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They would not talk about her book specifically it is about Russia. If you think someone who supported anpolitician who called people from the Caucasus cockroaches or argues that the SU was feminist is not an imperialist then I am not going to waste my time on such fatuity. Goodbye.

14.01.2026 13:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It is nonsense but in the end they will convince you collectively that Russia is just a fluffy gerbil and then launch another imperialist war.

14.01.2026 13:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Jewishness btw is an utter irrelevance as are roots in Ukraine. I strongly suggest that you listen to the people on the receiving end of their colonial violence. Ask yourself what the Motheland is, where are its borders? How can a genocidal totalitarian state be a feminist vanguard.

14.01.2026 13:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
Amnesty strips Alexei Navalny of 'prisoner of conscience' status Amnesty strips him of the status but links it to an "orchestrated campaign" to discredit him.

www.bbc.com/news/world-e...

14.01.2026 13:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Julia Ioffe: The Soviet Union Was Once The Vanguard Of World Feminism
Julia Ioffe: The Soviet Union Was Once The Vanguard Of World Feminism YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJWW... Once I have stopped laughing check out her and Navalny and his cockroaches video. They I mean good russians

14.01.2026 12:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They never do.

14.01.2026 12:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

She is Russian, she supports Navalny or did when he was alive, and he was very anti immigrant as I noted. I explained that and the inconsistency. I would have thought that any illusions about Russians might be dead now that they have destroyed American society.

14.01.2026 05:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No Ioffe. That should be obvious tbh. You can easily check out what I said.

13.01.2026 16:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

Are we all to be running dog lackeys of yankee imperialism now, Father?

12.01.2026 13:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A taste of Ukraine's poetic Renaissance executed by Stalin British translator and poet Stephen Komarnyckyj presents his translations of some of the most striking poems by Ukrainian authors from the creative outburst of the USSR's "Ukrainization" period of the 1920s. Only a dozen years later, most were brutally executed by Stalin. Some have opined that the Communists allowed the brief revival of Ukraine's national culture only to reveal the gifted representatives of its elite, in order to ease the elimination of potential leaders of the republic that could rise up against the forceful incorporation of the Ukrainian republic into the USSR.

euromaidanpress.com/longreads/ex...

12.01.2026 10:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
Book Review: Ravenโ€™s Way by Vasyl Shkliar and translated by Steve Komarnyckyj The evocative cover of โ€œRavenโ€™s Wayโ€ designed by Oleg Ganzha Ravenโ€™s Way โ€“ written byย Vasyl Shkliar and translated by Steve Komarnyckyj, 2015, Kalyna Language Press Limโ€ฆ

mburianyk.wordpress.com/2015/10/04/b... There is a good review of the book here. He noticed the care I took to create a faithful version that read naturally in English.

11.01.2026 12:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

Just arrived: Vasyl Shkliar's 'Raven's Way,' translated by @komarnyckyj.bsky.social

The back cover blurb says, "This is the novel most often stolen from Ukrainian bookshops - we would prefer you to buy a copy." ๐Ÿ˜‚

I'll begin this evening! ๐Ÿ“–
#ukrainianliterature #read #books

10.01.2026 20:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you! I hope you enjoy it the heroes are morally ambiguous but it was a violent time

11.01.2026 07:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

Free Iran!

09.01.2026 06:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 816 ๐Ÿ” 196 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 22 ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
Video thumbnail

The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism.

Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.

08.01.2026 21:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 7812 ๐Ÿ” 3352 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 132 ๐Ÿ“Œ 142

A poet too lithub.com/renee-nicole... because we let poets be murdered by Russians during their genocide war on Ukraine an American Nazi is murdering American poets in America.

08.01.2026 11:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The USA is officially EVIL now.
Thereโ€™s no turning this around.
Free People everywhere must stand together to resist the War Pigs.

Sounds extreme?
In November Iโ€™d have agreed with you.
Nowโ€ฆโ€ฆ truth time.

05.01.2026 15:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@lauralminor.bsky.social @ohiopoetry.bsky.social @poetkellycm.bsky.social @ohiopoetry.bsky.social @andotherpoems.bsky.social @poems

05.01.2026 13:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There are only 16 days left to register for a place. Many thanks for any much needed help in hawking my wares online, apologies if I am being a nuisance and best wishes for 2026!

05.01.2026 13:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I know that the people I am tagging may not need any guidance from me on how to tango with the muses but I would be very grateful if you sent details to anyone who might be interested.

05.01.2026 13:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
Fidelity & Betrayal: Linguistic Translation โ€ข Poetry School In this course led by Steve Komarnyckyj you will explore how being faithfulย to, orย how betrayal of your roots can enrich your poetry.

poetryschool.com/courses/fide...

Dear All- please check out my Poetry School course, Fidelity and Betrayal: Linguistic Translation. Despite the title it is really a creative writing course designed to inspire your own poetry by engaging you with the concept of translation in its widest sense.

05.01.2026 13:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Good, but long, thread on Ukrainian history and culture....

03.01.2026 21:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Both not be possible and make no difference. Russia and China need each other for now. Ukraine is tougher than Trump thinks. It also has power that reaches into the US the support of decent people and politicians there and finance from Europe.

04.01.2026 04:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They believe they can break up the alliance between Russia and China. But China is always acting in its own interest. So it is a foolish idea really. The alliance only exists insofar as China benefits from cheap Russian fuel and increased chances to seize Taiwan. Sacrificing Ukraine will

04.01.2026 04:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0