Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996. Her books in English include View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems (1995), Poems, New and Collected, 1957–1997, Miracle Fair: Selected Poems (2001), Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces (2002), and Monologue of a Dog (2005).

Elzbieta Czyzewska was born in 1938 in Warsaw Poland. She is an actor, known for The First Circle (1973) and Damages (2007). In May 2005, Czyżewska was awarded the prestigious Cultural Award of Merit by the Consul General of the New York Polish Consulate, which was accompanied by a retrospective of her work at the first New York Polish Film Festival. She died in 2010 in New York City.

Wisława Szymborska read by Elzbieta Czyzewska

Maureen N. McLane is a poet, memoirist, critic, and educator. She has published several books of poetry, including Same Life, Finalist for the Audre Lorde/Publishing Triangle Award; This Blue, Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry; Some Say, Finalist for the Audre Lorde/Publishing Triangle Award and for The Believer Award in Poetry; and More Anon: Selected Poems. Her book My Poets, was a New York Times Notable Book and Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography. She is Professor of English at New York University.

January 19, 2023
at Poetry Society of America
Brooklyn

Wisława Szymborska read by Elzbieta Czyzewska

Poetry Society of America

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