16 lipca odbędzie się druga odsłona wydarzenia Sangam and Agora – Forum of Poets, Scholars, and Autodidacts. Grzegorz Kwiatkowski wraz z profesorem UCLA Vinayem Lalem będą gościć Henry’ego C. Theriault, Davida Garyana, Betty Govinden oraz Bongani Kona.
Henryk Bereza o twórczości Grzegorza Kwiatkowskiego w “Wypiskach Ostatnich” pod redakcją Pawła Orła wydanych przez Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy.
„If you’re looking for somebody to adequately explain to you what Trupa Trupa does, I’m not that person. All I can do is try to provide some impressions because I really don’t have anything to compare it with. It’s bits and pieces. It seems chaotic but you always feel a structure. It can be aggressive. It can float and dream. It can do both in the same song. There really aren’t any rules going on here. It’s kind of like trying to define what Syd Barrett was doing with Pink Floyd before he went off the deep end.
The PEN Ten is PEN America’s weekly interview series. This week, PEN America’s senior director of Free Expression Programs Summer Lopez speaks with Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, author of Crops (Rain Taxi, 2021).
As a kid growing up in a huge extended family of Polish post-World War II ex-pats and their offspring in Chicago and beyond, I didn’t have to travel to Warsaw to get a deep education in the country’s culture and music.
Profesor UCLA Vinay Lal i Grzegorz Kwiatkowski rozpoczynają cykl “Sangam and Agora: A Forum of Poets, Philosophers, Scholars, and Autodidacts”. Pierwsze inauguracyjne spotkanie ‘Poetry Makes Things Happen’ odbędzie się w sobotę, 23 kwietnia.
Philosopher-poet Grzegorz Kwiatkowski’s lyrics deal with fundamental questions of fighting evil, in a homeland that has experienced more than its share. This hardcore moral stance is matched by the baleful, seething rock of opener “Moving”. But respite is offered by the scratchily pretty, Sonic Youth-like psychedelic ballad “Lines” and Floydian acid-folk of “All And All”, as Trupa Trupa’s sixth album favours often lovely, mysteriously ritualistic sounds. The dreamy vocal and abrasively chiming guitar on “Sick” are also narcotically dislocating. Kwiatkowski’s words stay sunk deep in the title track’s mix, the submerged poetry of an underground band who carry a courageous subculture with them.
Nick Hasted, Uncut
