Over Tea and Tears: for Ukraine

We welcome you to Bracken’s special publication series, Over Tea and Tears: for Ukraine, dedicated to creative responses to the war against Ukraine. On no set schedule, we’ll publish works across various genres including poetry, prose, translation, and visual art from creators in the US, Ukraine, and abroad. We hope this series, curated by Editor Jed Myers and Guest Co-Editor Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, will offer, as writing and art can, ways into and transformatively out of the reality we’re faced with from our varying degrees of proximity to the atrocity. May these works help us reckon more openheartedly with what is happening in Ukraine, so that we become more empathetic, and inspired to continue taking action to help those suffering at the hands of injustice and violence at home and across the water.

For this series, all submission fees and donations are being contributed to helping those in or departing Ukraine whose lives have been disrupted by the war.