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Karen Kovacik

is a poet and translator of Polish poetry. She was the former Poet Laureate of the American state of Indiana from 2011 to 2013. She was succeeded by George Kalamaras.
 
Grandma suddenly remembers
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Grandma suddenly remembers

"In a flash of illumination, she pulls from a deep well a true vividness, the fluidity of the world," poet Aglaja Janczak writes about her grandmother
Aglaja Janczak
Love Poem
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Love Poem

On love and katyush in Gdańsk, 2006.
Jacek Szafranowicz
April in Brwinów
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April in Brwinów

As a child, I felt wounded by early spring. The season had an obvious delicacy and allure, but in a way that intensified instead of diminished its agony—the author speaks of spring.
Zbigniew Mikołejko
Obligations
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Obligations

The poem is pretty self-evident. But underneath its universality, there’s something more prosaic and personal.
Jacek Dehnel
Sorrowbalm
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Sorrowbalm

In London's Kew Gardens, I saw flowers from South Africa, from a region often ravaged by fires—poet Krystyna Dąbrowska comments on her poem, Sorrowbalm
Krystyna Dąbrowska
And you don’t know what will sprout
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And you don’t know what will sprout

instead of flowers I got seeds without pots, soil, or light. I set aside money, bought a garret: the sun lit up the windowsill, left the rest of the room dark. I found help online: unwittingly I found myself in a community of gardeners. standing in line once, talking, I was accused of carelessness, as […]
Maria Czekańska
Sculptures for the Blind
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Sculptures for the Blind

“The blind view sculptures with their fingers.” A poem by a contemporary Polish poet.
Krystyna Dąbrowska
funeral
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funeral

“to dust you won’t return / not quite.” A poem by a contemporary Polish poet.
Ida Dzik
Isle of Two Volcanoes
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Isle of Two Volcanoes

“In its crater, instead of magma, / the green chill of a lake.” A poem by a contemporary Polish poet.
Krystyna Dąbrowska
Day at the Anatomy Museum
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Day at the Anatomy Museum

“gorgeous guys don’t go about in massive jars— / a thought the Anatomy Museum refutes.” A poem by a contemporary Polish poet.
Tomasz Pietrzak
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
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De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

“I was eight or nine when knowledge’s two sides, / both ends of the telescope, resolved in my heart.” A poem by an award-winning Polish poet, novelist and translator.
Jacek Dehnel
climate psalm
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climate psalm

“in a former life / I crammed ripe blueberries into my mouth.” A poem by a contemporary Polish poet.
Ida Dzik