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.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
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....
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)....
Occupying Memory: On Monuments in Concrete and Verse
Piotr Florczyk reflects on Poland, its monuments, and its poetry of witness....
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....
A Europe Full of Animals
Glossy magazines full of advice on how to improve ourselves will never eradicate the primordial within us....
