Piotr Florczyk

Piotr Florczyk is a poet, essayist, and translator of several volumes of Polish poetry, including The Day He’s Gone: Poems 1990-2013 by Paweł Marcinkiewicz (Spuyten Duyvil, 2014), The World Shared: Poems by Dariusz Sośnicki (co-translated with Boris Dralyuk; BOA Editions, 2014), and Building the Barricade by Anna Świrszczyńska (Tavern Books, 2016). He is the author of East & West: Poems (Lost Horse Press, 2016), a collection of essays, Los Angeles Sketchbook (Spuyten Duyvil, 2015), and a chapbook, Barefoot (Eyewear, 2015). He is one of the founders of Calypso Editions, a cooperative press, and serves as Translation Editor for The Los Angeles Review. He lives in Santa Monica. www.piotrflorczyk.com.

Articles

“There Is No Hole in Heaven”: On Jerzy Ficowski’s “Everything I Don’t Know”
Piotr Florczyk reviews the poetry collection “Everything I Don’t Know” by the late Jerzy Ficowski and translated by Jennifer Grotzm and Piotr Sommer....
Piotr FlorczykFeb 23, 2022
- Poetry
The Style of Our Moment: A Conversation with William Logan
Piotr Florczyk asks poet and critic William Logan about his latest book, “Broken Ground: Poetry and the Demon of History.”...
Piotr FlorczykJun 13, 2021
- Poetry
The Collaborative Skein: Searching for a Way Forward in Polish-Jewish Relations, a Conversation
Louise Steinman and Piotr Florczyk offer a wide-ranging and provocative discussion of the legacy of the Holocaust in Poland....
Piotr Florczyk, Louise SteinmanFeb 9, 2021
The Palimpsest of Language: On Steven G. Kellman’s “Nimble Tongues: Studies in Literary Translingualism”
A new study of the pleasures and pitfalls confronting translingual writers....
Piotr FlorczykApr 10, 2020
If Nothing Escaped Us: An Interview with Poet and Philosopher Troy Jollimore
Poet Troy Jollimore talks about repeating himself, why cinema matters, and what poets can learn from stand-up comedians....
Piotr FlorczykFeb 16, 2017
- Poetry
Making Meaning Under the Siege: On Five Leningrad Poets
Piotr Florczyk reflects on a brief new anthology of poetry written during the Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944)....
Piotr FlorczykOct 27, 2016
- Poetry
- Translation
Occupying Memory: On Monuments in Concrete and Verse
Piotr Florczyk reflects on Poland, its monuments, and its poetry of witness....
Piotr FlorczykAug 22, 2016
- Art
- Poetry
A Way Forward: Louise Steinman's "The Crooked Mirror"
In the search for the remnants of her own family, Louise Steinman traces the many unresolved issues that still stand in the way of a sustained dialogue between Poles and Jews, a dialogue that would at last put them on the path toward true reconciliation. Steinman’s book, The Crooked Mirror, will no doubt be part of that reconciliation....
Piotr FlorczykNov 2, 2013
A Europe Full of Animals
Glossy magazines full of advice on how to improve ourselves will never eradicate the primordial within us....
Piotr FlorczykSep 28, 2011