Hi everyone, it's Anne, with another episode of To the Best of Our Knowledge.

Throughout history, writers have helped us make sense of our time through their novels, poetry, and essays.

And while some books are being banned or voices silenced, there are writers today who are still speaking up and who are using their words as political acts.

Stay with us as we meet some. Wisconsin Public Radio It's to the best of our knowledge.

I'm Anne Strange Champs.

Sometimes writing is a political act.

Okay.

How are you, how are your family and friends in Ukraine?

Um, how am I doing?

I'm not doing incredibly well, no.

Yeah.

I'm trying to do my best. Days after the Russian army invaded Ukraine, when the whole world was trying to make sense of

what was happening and how to respond, these words started circulating online.

We lived happily during the war.

We lived happily during the war.

And when they bombed other people's houses, we protested.

But not enough.

But not enough. But not enough.

We oppose them.

We opposed them, but not enough.

But not enough.

This is the beginning of a poem, a now famous poem, by Ilya Kyminski, the Ukrainian-American poet.

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