Biography

Born in Gdansk in 1953, TADEUSZ DZIEWANOWSKI was involved in Polish street theater as both a writer and performer during the 1970s, and was a co-founder of the Gdansk-area creative group, Tawerna Psychonautow (The Tavern of the Psychonauts) in the 1980s. More recently, he has been a poet and translator from English, whose own poetry, reviews and translations from English appear regularly in the major Polish literary journal Topos. Three of Daniel Bourne’s translations of his poetry appeared in International Poetry Review.

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.