Oksana Maksymchuk Oksana Maksymchuk is a bilingual Ukrainian-American poet, scholar, and literary translator. Her debut English-language poetry collection Still City was longlisted for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2025 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry.

Annunciation | Poetry

Oksana Maksymchuk

I imagine it being true You remained in bed shards of glass levitating, like a sparkling tapestry Sound asleep despite rolling thunderclaps flashes of alien fast-moving light In the morning when the search party arrived they found you, index finger marking a place in a book a white lily at your bedside filling the room with a fragrance and your face still a child’s bearing a mark of a kiss