Biography

KRZYSZTOF PIECHOWICZ‘s books include W jaszczurczym języku (In the Language of Reptiles), Całopalenie jaszczurki (The Holocaust of the Reptile), To samo niebie, ta sama ziemia (This Same Heaven, This Same Earth), and Krótka historia liścia (A Short History of a Leaf). While publishing a number of translations from English into Polish, his own work has been translated into a number of other languages, including English, Flemish and Spanish. His poetry, articles, essays and other writings have appeared in such major Polish journals as Twórczość, Res Publika, and Powściągliwość i praca. Born in Bydgoszcz, he currently lives in Warsaw. In English, his poetry has appeared in Artful Dodge (translated by Lia Purpura) and in International Poetry Review (translated by Daniel Bourne), among other journals.

DANIEL BOURNE spent four months in late 2008 in Poland, working on translation projects with Polish poets as well as his own writing. His books of poetry include The Household Gods (Cleveland State University Press, 1995), Where No One Spoke the Language (CustomWords, 2006) and a collection of translations of the Polish political poet Tomasz Jastrun, On the Crossroads of Asia and Europe (Salmon Run, 1999). He teaches at the College of Wooster, where he edits Artful Dodge. His many trips to Poland include a Fulbright fellowship in 1985-87 for the translation of younger Polish poets. His poems have appeared in such journals as Ploughshares, FIELD, American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Salmagundi, Tar River Poetry and Seneca Review. His translations of other Polish poets such as Bronisław Maj and Zbigniew Machej appear in FIELD, Boulevard, Mid-American Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewere.