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The Poles throw a party: postcard from Kraków

Jagiellonian University's Collegium Novum When the Poles throw a party – they don’t settle for half-measures.  And what better occasion than the Czesław Miłosz centenary?  This is easily the most...

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She never sniveled: Natalia Gorbanevskaya (1936-2013)

Free. (Photo: Dmitry Kuzmin) The Russian poet Natalia Gorbanevskaya declared unequivocally that, for a poet, living in an alien land is “a source of new potency.” It’s lucky that she thought so,...

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Does good literature inoculate us against lies? Poet Tomas Venclova thinks so.

“Above all, love language” (Photo: Dylan Vaughan) I was one of the few people to review Magnetic North, the great Baltic poet Tomas Venclova‘s book-length Q&A with poet and translator Ellen Hinsey...

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