Please join us for a poetry reading and discussion about literature’s role
in dealing with the global crises that loom over our present and future!
Julia Fiedorczuk is a writer, poet, translator, scholar, and editor. Her
creative work has been translated into several languages and
includes volumes of poetry, essays, short stories, and novels. She is
also an Associate Professor at the Institute of English Studies and a
co-founder of the Environmental Studies Center at the University of
Warsaw. Her academic publications explore the intersection between
aesthetics and environmental studies. They include such titles as The
Cyborg in The Garden: An Introduction to Ecocriticism and Ecopoetics:
An Ecological Defence of Poetry (written with Gerardo Beltrán).
Fiedorczuk’s latest poetic volume, Psalms (Psalmy, 2017), draws on her
reading of the original Biblical Psalms and the climactic, ecological,
and geopolitical changes affecting the contemporary world. It
received the prestigious Wisława Szymborska Poetry Award in 2018
and came out as part of the Wisconsin Poetry Series (University of
Wisconsin Press, 2023).
This event is co-sponsored by CREECA, GNS+, Lapinski Fund and Polish Cultural Institute New York.