UW-Madison Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia (CREECA)

announces poetry reading and meeting with Julia Fiedorczuk

The Voice of Nature Poetry

From the CREECA website: Please join us for a poetry reading and discussion about literature’s role in dealing with the global crises that loom over our present and future!

Julia Fiedorczuk is a writer, poet, translator, scholar, and editor. Her creative work has been translated into several languages and includes volumes of poetry, essays, short stories, and novels. She is also an Associate Professor at the Institute of English Studies and a co-founder of the Environmental Studies Center at the University of Warsaw. Her academic publications explore the intersection between aesthetics and environmental studies. They include such titles as The Cyborg in The Garden: An Introduction to Ecocriticism and Ecopoetics: An Ecological Defence of Poetry (written with Gerardo Beltrán).

Fiedorczuk’s latest poetic volume, a style="color: #cc0909;" href="https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6259.htm"

author: IRENA FRACZEK

>Psalms (Psalmy, 2017), draws on her reading of the original Biblical Psalms and the climactic, ecological, and geopolitical changes affecting the contemporary world. It received the prestigious Wisława Szymborska Poetry Award in 2018 and came out as part of the Wisconsin Poetry Series (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023).

Location: UW-Madison Campus 
Room 206, Ingraham Hall
1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/FTvrjET7HaNd2UUi6