In Poland, History, Politics and Memory Remain Deeply and Painfully Intertwined. A visit to Jewish and cultural sites across Poland reveals a country looking to move on from eight years of populist rule that turned the Holocaust into a political minefield.
At the foot of a pine tree, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski bent to touch the black, moist shapes nestling amid the fungi and leaf mulch. “I’ve been monitoring this area now since 2015, and always hope I won’t stumble upon anything any more and that one day the entire area will have been cleared,” he said. This, however, was not that day.
Meeting at Columbia captured by the brilliant cartoonist from The New Yorker, Emily Flake.
The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York is organizing an in-person meeting featuring Grzegorz Kwiatkowski and his translator, Peter Constantine.
On April 17th, the University of Minnesota will host ‘Resilience Through Verse: Narrative Reflections of Trauma Through Poetry’. The event will feature Grzegorz Kwiatkowski and Jephta Nguherimo as guests, with moderation by Michael Winikoff.
On April 8th, at Columbia University in New York, the event “Echoes of Trauma” will take place. Leela Corman, Jordan Mechner, and Grzegorz Kwiatkowski will participate in a discussion on how historical, familial, and cultural trauma inform their work. The meeting will be hosted by Professor Jeremy Dauber.
A selection of poems from Grzegorz Kwiatkowski’s book “Joies” has been published in the French magazine “Recours au Poème – revue de poésie”.
Great news from the Stutthof Museum! After 10 years, we’ve finally obtained such a declaration from the museum!
A great review of Grzegorz Kwiatkowski’s French book, “Joies,” by poet and critic Jean-Pierre Lemaire (from Gallimard) has been published. The book “Joies” was released by La rumeur libre éditions and translated by Zbigniew Naliwajek.
On the 28th of February, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski will be speaking about his memory art project at the University of Notre Dame.