On October 14, the Ukrainian-American writer and translator Yuri Tarnavsky passed away. He was a founding member of the New York Group of Ukrainian avant-garde writers. The news of his death was shared by Maryana Savka.
"This morning we learned that Yuri Tarnavsky has left us. We were eagerly awaiting his return to the Land of Poets, his voice reaching us from the screen. However, the Poet's time came to an end sooner than expected. Poets never truly die; they merely depart," Savka wrote.
She also added that at the end of October, "Old Lion Publishing" will release a "powerful volume" of selected poetry by Yuri Tarnavsky.
"It is a great pity that he will not see it, but he knew about it, he worked on it, and he was waiting," the writer and poet added.

Yuri Tarnavsky was born on February 3, 1934, in the Ukrainian city of Turka. However, he pursued his education in the USA, earning degrees in engineering and linguistics.
He worked at IBM as a cyberneticist specializing in natural language processing, and later became a professor of Ukrainian literature and culture at Columbia University.
Tarnavsky was a co-founder of the New York Group of Ukrainian avant-garde writers and the American writers' collective Fiction Collective/FC2.
In 2008, he was awarded the Order of Yaroslav the Wise for his contributions to Ukrainian literature.
He authored over twenty books of poetry, prose, plays, and essays in both Ukrainian and English, including two volumes of collected poetry titled "Poems About Nothing" and "They Are Not Here" in Ukrainian, and "Men in the Attic", "Three Blondes and Death", and "Short Tales" in English.
After retiring in 1996, he lived and worked in White Plains, New York.