The New York Group of Poets

While the label "New York Group" commonly refers to seven founding members, namely Bohdan Boychuk, Yuriy Tarnawsky, Bohdan Rubchak, Zhenia Vasylkivska, Emma Andijewska, Patrytsiia Kylyna (a pen name of Patricia Nell Warren), and Vira Vovk, it also includes five poets who joined the founders of the group more than a decade later: George Kolomyiets, Oleh Kowerko, Marco Carynnyk, Roman Babowal, and Maria Rewakowicz.

[2] In 1990 Boychuk and Rewakowicz, in cooperation with the Writers' Union of Ukraine, founded a literary magazine Svito-vyd in Kyiv, which continued publishing until 1999.

[3] The most iconic thematic innovations introduced by the New York Group Drew inspiration both from recent Spanish poetry and from the Latin American boom[1] while incorporating play elements, urban motifs, and erotica.

[4] Having settled mostly in the United States, the poets welcomed their émigré condition, which freed them from the constraints of both Socialist Realism and Censorship in the Soviet Union, while also nurturing their links with their homeland by continuing to write poetry in their mother tongue.

They sought to pay tribute to the literary history of their language, while also incorporating the formal and thematic innovations of literature within the Free World.