(Alaska), will present a reading and conversation on the newly published poetry book, "An Overdue Letter to a Pimply Angel."
**Massolit is a short 5-minute walk southwest from Krakow's main square: cross Planty, take ul. Smolensk and take the first left. We are at the corner of Felicjanek and Bozego Milosierdzia.
An Overdue Letter to a Pimply Angel (Mitel 2014) is Krystyna Lenkowska's ninth book. Her poem “The Eye of John Keats in Rome” won the first prize at the 2012 Sarajevo international poetry competition “Seeking for a Poem.” In 2013, at the XVII Ditet e Naimi Poetry Festival (Macedonia-Albania), she received the Menada Prize for “poetic originality”. Lenkowska’s poems have been published in several American literary journals (Absinthe, Boulevard, Chelsea, Confrontation, The Normal School, Spoon River Poetry Review). She is a member of the Polish Writers' Association (SPP).
Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough’s translations have appeared in Boulevard, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Normal School. She has translated Philip Levine’s poetry into Polish, and she is also Lenkowska’s translator. Her essays have been published TriQuarterly, Threepenny Review, The American Scholar, Ploughshares. One of them was selected for inclusion in The Best American Essays 2012. She has just finished work on a collection of essays Bottom, Thou Art Translated.
Kathleen Tarr is a nonfiction writer from Alaska, recently arrived in Krakow. She earned her Master’s of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction at the University of Pittsburgh. Her work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, TriQuarterly, Cirque, Alaska Airlines Magazine, America Magazine, and in blogs, newspapers and anthologies. She recently completed a draft manuscript for her first book, a memoir, We Are All Poets Here, a chapter from which was published in The Sewanee Review.