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...
View ArticleShe 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,...
View ArticleDoes 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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