Polish poetry

The Double Interrogation of Piotr Florczyk’s From the Annals of Kraków

By Alice-Catherine Carls
April 28, 2021 | Alice-Catherine Carls

Ghetto Heroes Square in Kraków / Photo by annaspies / Flickr Piotr Florczyk’s From the Annals of Kraków (Lynx House Press, 2020) narrates the searing realization of an almost unnoti...
A Farewell to Adam Zagajewski

By Marek Makowski
April 14, 2021 | Marek Makowski

Photo by Jerry Bauer I was waiting for a tennis court on the lakeshore in Chicago when I read that Adam Zagajewski died. I have always considered tennis like writing: you practice to get into...
Remembering Neustadt Laureate Adam Zagajewski (1945–2021)

By The Editors of WLT
March 22, 2021 | The Editors of WLT

When we heard the news yesterday that Adam Zagajewski had passed away at the age of seventy-five in Kraków, Poland, we immediately thought not only of his exceptional poetry and essays but also o...
A Swedish Poet in Oklahoma: Remembering Tomas Tranströmer

March 30, 2015 | The Editors of WLT

Tomas Tranströmer delivering his acceptance speech for the Neustadt Prize in June 1990. When news broke late last week that Nobel Prize laureate Tomas Tranströmer had died in St...
Jane Hirshfield’s “window moment” in poetry, delicate book sculptures, and more

March 19, 2015 | Jen Rickard Blair

Jane Hirshfield. Photo by Nick Rosza News, Reviews, and Interviews Brand new literary translation publisher Deep Velllum is picking up momentum. The publisher has just released the first of legendar...