Writing is a Celebration – Poetry and Politics
It was our distinct pleasure to host Tomasz Różycki and Major Jackson at Boston University on October 1st, 2007 for a reading and conversation entitled Poetry and Politics. Tomasz Różycki is a Polish poet and translator. He has published six books of poetry, including Colonies, The Forgotten Keys, and the book-length poem Twelve Stations, winner of the Koscielski Prize. Nominated twice for Poland’s most significant literary award, the Nike Prize, Różycki lives in his hometown, Opole, with two children and his wife.
Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont and Faculty Member of the Bennington Writing Seminars, Major Jackson is also a poet. He has authored two collections of poems entitled Hoops (2006) and Leaving Saturn (2002). Winner of the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, Jackson has been critically reviewed in The Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Parnassus and the Philadelphia Enquirer and he has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered.
Moderating this conversation was Irena Grudzinska Gross.
WBUR aired this reading and conversation on March 16th, 2008.
