Book Launch and Discussion with the Author and Translators of Furious Harvests

Wed., May 6, 2026, 2 – 3:30 p.m.



Book launch and discussion of Furious Harvests, a bilingual poetry collection with author Alex Averbuch, and translators Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky, in conversation with Oleh Kotsyuba (Director of Print and Digital Publications at HURI).

Furious Harvests transports readers to Alex Averbuch’s homeland of eastern Ukraine. Amid the bloody destruction brought by Russia’s war of aggression, the poet toils in fields of memory, reaping lyrics from family archives and mementos to amass testaments to the complex and painful histories of this place and its peoples. A family tree, letters to home, and the faint scent of the grandmother’s dress kept in the back of a closet speak to histories of inter-ethnic violence, WWII forced laborers, and the Holocaust. Mixing dialects, styles, registers, and voices, Furious Harvests—presented in a bilingual edition—defiantly cries out in its rage and longing toward reconciliation of the self and other.

This event is organized by HURI Books, the publications program at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Gazette Classification: Poetry/Prose
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Speaker(s): Alex Averbuch, Author, Oksana Maksymchuk, Translator, Max Rosochinsky, Translator, Oleh Kotsyuba, Director of Print and Digital Publications at HURI
Contact Info: [email protected]
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.huri.harvard.edu…