Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

In his lecture for the 1980 Nobel Prize in literature, the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004) referred to his work as “a quest for reality.” Miłosz’s life was one long defense of ...

Is poetry after the Holocaust possible? Here’s a look at ways in which poets used the Polish language to react to the unprecedented tragedy of the Holocaust: from the first-hand wartime testimonies, ...

Poetry has occupied a special place in Polish literature for at least 200 years. After the loss of the nation's independence in 1795, poetry became a vehicle of national identity for over a century ...

Several Polish poets have been included in The New Yorker's "A Century of Poetry 1925-2025," a collection of verse published in the American magazine over the past 100 years.

In a blurry photo from my first trip to Poland at 19, me and my godmother, one of my mother’s ten siblings, are laughing together, a thousand feet into the earth, in a 13th century chapel made ...

But beyond that, there is the deeper threat that the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz identified in “The Captive Mind,” his exploration of how intellectuals adapt to authoritarian regimes.

Bohdan is a Polish poet based in Birmingham. He has taken his poems to venues ranging from an underground Tokyo club to a tramway in Paris. In the UK, he regularly features at the country’s most ...

For the first time in its 20-year history of fashion collaborations, Swedish fashion giant H&M has teamed up with a Polish designer. The collection highlights Magda Butrym's heritage and unique style: ...

This year’s jury is comprised of Canadian poet and novelist Anne Michaels, Northern Irish poet and novelist Nick Laird, and Polish poet, translator, and essayist Tomasz Różycki. This year’s shortlist ...