Polish poet reads April 11

Zagajewski

dam Zagajewski, an internationally acclaimed Polish author, will read from his poetry at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, in the Welles-Brown Room of Rush Rhees Library.

Known as the leading poet of the "Generation of '68," or Nowa fala (New Wave), Zagajewski was an active dissident during the 1970s. He has been widely recognized and published in Polish, English, French, Hebrew, Italian, German, Swedish, and Greek.

Held in celebration of National Poetry Month, the reading, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies, the Department of English, and the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures.

Zagajewski's books include A Thin Line, The Perfect Pitch, Another Beauty, Canvas, Tremor: Selected Poems, Two Cities, and Mysticism for Beginners.

Zagajewski, who holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, has won numerous awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation award and a MacDowell Colony Prize Fellowship.

Since 1988, he has been visiting associate professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston. He also is co-editor of Zeszyty Literaackie (Literary Review), a Polish literary journal. English versions of his works have appeared in The New Yorker, New York Review of Books, and the Partisan Review.

A reception will follow the talk. For more information, call x5-9898.

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