Occupation poet Role Author Name Mykhaylo Semenko | Genre poetry Nationality Ukrainian | |
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Died October 24, 1937, Kiev, Ukraine Parents Mariia Proskurivna, Vasyl Semenko | ||
30 Днів Української Поезії - 30 Days of Ukrainian Poetry - Day 3
Mykhaylo Vasylovich Semenko (Ukrainian: Миха́йло Васи́льович Семе́нко) was a Ukrainian poet, the prominent representative of the Ukrainian futuristic poetry of 1920s. He is considered to be one of the lead figures of Executed Renaissance.
He was a founder of futuristic groups Aspanfut, Komunkult, Nova generatsiya. He was an editor in couple of almanacs and the journal "Nova generatsiya". As a poet Semenko had been writing mainly urban lyrics. Semenko was arrested in 1937 and executed by NKVD during the Great Purge. In the mid-1960s he was rehabilitated.
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