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Tuesday, October 29, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Zbigniew Herbert, one of the most influential Polish poets, essayists and moralists of the post-WWII generation.
Acclaimed Polish poet and playwright Ernest Bryll has died in Warsaw at the age of 89.
The power of poetry Katarzyna Jakubiak, associate professor of English at Millersville University and a Polish-born author and translator, organized the reading for the conference.
Late Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz was born near the Czeslaw Milosz Steps in Vilnius, Lithuania. He remains the only member of the University of California to win a Nobel Prize in literature. Photo by ...
DACAMERA Presents TRUE LIFE: A CELEBRATION OF POET ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, February 27 Adam Zagajewski was one of Poland's most famous contemporary poets, and was a prominent member of the Polish New ...
Mathews: California’s greatest poet wrote in Polish — from Berkeley Milosz stayed 40 years, living in and writing from a cottage on Grizzly Peak ...
Want to become a signature voice of your nation? Try a decades-long exile in California. It worked for Czeslaw Milosz, who entered the pantheon of Polish poets thanks to works he wrote mostly in ...
ANOTHER BEAUTY By Adam Zagajewski Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 221 pages, $23 Poland is perhaps the most devastated country of modern Europe, victimized a… ...
One of the leading writers of his generation, poet, essayist and novelist Adam Zagajewski died on March 21, 2021. In this 2005 interview, he spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about writing poetry shaped ...
Adam Zagajewski, the celebrated Polish poet whose melancholy reflections on the erosion of the world came to express an unfathomable moment of shock and loss after the 9/11 attacks in the U.S ...