Grzegorz Kwiatkowski (b. 1984) – a Polish poet and musician.
Writing
An author of several books of poetry revolving around the subjects of history, remembrance, and ethics.
He is a member of PEN America and a European literature platform Versopolis.
He was a guest of several festivals such as the Oslo Internasjonale Poesifestival and the Lahti International Writers Reunion.
He has been a beneficiary of numerous international literary programs such as “Artist in Residence” in Vienna and “Styria Artist in Residence” in Graz.
Music
He is a member of the psychedelic rock band Trupa Trupa. Their music has been published by global record labels such as Sub Pop, Glitterbeat Records, Ici d’ailleurs, and Lovitt Records.
The band performed at such events as
- Desert Daze Festival
- Rockaway Beach Festival
- SXSW
- Primavera Sound
- Iceland Airwaves
Trupa Trupa’s songs are regularly broadcast on major radio shows such as BBC Radio 6, NPR, KEXP, WFMU, KCRW and The Current. The hosts include Iggy Pop and Henry Rollins. The band also recorded the NPR Tiny Desk and BBC Radio 6 sessions.
Academic
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski co-hosts the workshop “Virus of Hate” at the University of Oxford.
He was also a guest lecturer at:
- The University of California, Berkeley
- Stanford University
- Yale University
- The University of California, Los Angeles
- Johns Hopkins University
- The University of Chicago
- Northwestern University
- Jewish Theological Seminary
- The University of Haifa
- The University of Cambridge and the Ted Hughes Society (“Crow at 50”)
- The University of Texas at Dallas
- University of Connecticut
- University of Notre Dame
- Middle Tennessee State University
- Western University
- Kupferberg Holocaust Center of City University of New York
- The Holocaust Resource Center of Kean University
- Jewish Historical Institute
- The Galicia Jewish Museum
- Miroslaw Balka’s Studio of Spatial Activities at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
- University of Warsaw, Artes Liberales
- Jagiellonian University, UNESCO Chair for Education about the Holocaust at the Institute of European Studies
Together with UCLA professor Vinay Lal, he began the series Sangam and Agora: A Forum of Poets, Philosophers, Scholars, and Autodidacts.
Together with University of Oxford professor Paul Lodge, he began the series It Sings Therefore We Are: Philosophy and Music in Conversation.
He is taking part in “The Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador” collaborative research initiative.
Media presence
His music and literary works have been published and reviewed in
- The Guardian
- New York Times [T Magazine/TMicronovel series]
- Times of Israel
- Genocide Studies and Prevention
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- World Literature Today
- New Poetry In Translation
- CBC
- Pitchfork
- Die Welt
- Los Angeles Times
- Rolling Stone
- Newsweek
- Billboard
- Spin
- Chicago Tribune
- Times
- NPR
- BBC
- KEXP.