Piotr Florczyk

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Photo by Dena Florczyk

Piotr Florczyk is an award-winning poet, translator, and scholar who teaches in the Global Literary Studies program at the University of Washington, Seattle. Alongside multiple volumes of Polish poetry translations, he has published books of original poetry in English and in Polish. He lives with his family in Los Angeles.

Two Polish American Poems

March 13, 2023 Piotr Florczyk
Photo by Lava Lavanda / Unsplash First Language Not sure what to make of the title (titles can be misleading, like …
Two Polish American Poems

March 13, 2023 Piotr Florczyk
Photo by Lava Lavanda / Unsplash First Language Not sure what to make of the title (titles can be misleading, like …
Channeling the Other: A Review of Echoes of Tattered Tongues, by John Guzlowski

April 13, 2016 Piotr Florczyk
Like most immigrant kids, John Guzlowski never wanted to write about his Polish parents and the world they left when they came to America. They had been slave laborers during World War II, while he, b…
Tabula Rasa

July 28, 2014 Piotr Florczyk
While staring at the paper on his writing desk, the author wonders whether he’s building a new Tower of Babel.There is a poem I know, by a poet who shall remain unnamed, in which the poet eng…