Polish poetry
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April 28, 2021 |
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... -
April 14, 2021 |
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... -
March 22, 2021 |
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... -
March 30, 2015 |
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... -
March 19, 2015 |
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...
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