F202.
A Reading & Conversation with Krystyna Dąbrowska
Friday, March 25, 2022
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
A bilingual reading by Krystyna Dąbrowska, one of Poland’s most acclaimed younger poets, and her three award-winning translators, followed by a conversation on multiple techniques for translating the same poet, as well as collaborative strategies for promoting her work throughout the English-speaking world. Known for her inviting poems that investigate cultural exchange, family history, and language itself, Dąbrowska is the winner of Poland’s distinguished Wisława Szymborska Prize.
Participants
Karen Kovacik is the author of the poetry collections Metropolis Burning and Beyond the Velvet Curtain, translator of Jacek Dehnel's Aperture, and editor of Scattering the Dark, anthology of Polish women poets. Recipient of an NEA translation fellowship, she teaches at IUPUI in Indianapolis.
Mira Rosenthal is a past fellow of the NEA and Stanford’s Stegner Program. Her volume The Local World won the Wick Poetry Prize. Her translation of Tomasz Różycki’s Colonies won the Northern California Book Award. Honors include a PEN Translation Award and residencies at Hedgebrook and MacDowell.
Krystyna Dabrowska is the author of four poetry books and winner of the Wislawa Szymborska Award and the Koscielski Award. Her poems have been translated into twenty languages. Collections of her poems have been published in Italian, German, and Swedish and are forthcoming in Portuguese and English.
Sean Bye
