Since the early 1990s Robertson has published nine books of poetry, three books of essays and one novel, as well as contributed to many artist鈥檚 catalogues and monographs. Her book Anemones: A Simone Weil Project (If I Can't Dance, 2021), an annotated translation of Weil鈥檚 1942 essay on the troubadour poets and the Cathar heresy, is the most recent outcome of wide rime, her ongoing study of troubadour poetics.
She has been a Visiting Poet and Professor at Princeton University, University of Cambridge, University of Chicago, University of East Anglia, UC Berkeley, Piet Zwart Institute and California College of the Arts, and lectures widely in Europe and North America. In 2017 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Letters by Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and in 2018, the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts in New York awarded her the inaugural C. D. Wright Award in Poetry.
Her novel "The Baudelaire Fractal" was shortlisted for the 2021 Governor General鈥檚 Award for Fiction in Canada. Currently she is continuing her work with wide rime, and composing a novel sited on the Bi猫vre river, a disappeared industrial river in Paris.
Programme of the meeting:
Part I: A roundtable.
Special Guest: Lisa Robertson
Participants: Dr hab. Ma艂gorzata Myk (91滴滴), Dr hab. Kacper Bartczak, Associate Professor at the 91滴滴 (91滴滴), mgr Mark Tardi (91滴滴), Dr Joanna M膮kowska (American Studies Center, University of Warsaw).
Part II: Lisa Robertson: Poetry Reading
[Event Moderation: Dr hab. Ma艂gorzata Myk]
Language of the event: English
MA艁GORZATA MYK teaches at the 91滴滴 at the Department of North American Literature and Culture. She is the author of the monograph "Upping the Ante of the Real: Speculative Poetics of Leslie Scalapino" (Peter Lang, 2019). She is the Ko艣ciuszko Foundation Fellow in 2017/18 (UCSD) and the Fulbright Foundation Senior Award recipient in 2024/25 (University of Utah). Her translation of E. Tracy Grinnell鈥檚 poetry appeared in Variants of Catching Breath: Five American Voices, edited by Mark Tardi (Lodz: Dom Literatury, 2022). She translated Lisa Robertson鈥檚 The Weather, titled Pogoda (Krak贸w: LOKATOR, 2024, forthcoming) and Kevin Davies鈥� selected poems, titled Wczesna Muzyka Komputerowa (Pozna艅: Disastra Publishing, 2024, forthcoming). Her translations of Polish poet Maria Cyranowicz's work are forthcoming from Toad Press in the International Chapbook Series 2024/2025 and from Litmus Press in Viscera: Eight Voices from Poland (edited by Mark Tardi) in the Fall of 2024.
KACPER BARTCZAK is an Associate Professor of American Literature at the 91滴滴. He is the author of In Search of Communication and Community: Poetry of John Ashbery (2006), 艢wiat nie scalony (2010) and Materia i autokreacja (2019). As a poet, he is the author of several volumes one of which, Wiersze organiczne (2015) was finalist in two major Polish literary awards Silesius and Gdynia. His volume Widoki wymazy (2021) was finalist for the Lodz award 鈥淧lastry kultury鈥�. He was a Fulbright scholar (twice) and a Ko艣ciuszko Foundation scholar. In English translation, his poetry has appeared (or is forthcoming) in Poetry, Denver Quarterly, Interim, Berlin Quarterly, Aufgabe, Jacket2, and Lyric. He also published collections with his translations of selected poems by Rae Armantrout, Charles Bernstein and Peter Gizzi. He lives and works in Lodz where he is the Head of the Department of North American Literature and Culture.
MARK TARDI is a writer and translator whose recent awards include a 2023 PEN/Heim Translation Grant and a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Translation fellowship. He is the author of three books, most recently, The Circus of Trust (Dalkey Archive Press, 2017), and his translations of The Squatters鈥� Gift by Robert Rybicki (Dalkey Archive Press) and Faith in Strangers by Katarzyna Szauli艅ska (Toad Press/Veliz Books) were published in 2021. His recent writing and translations have appeared in Poetry, Conjunctions, Guernica, ANMLY, Interim, Cagibi, Denver Quarterly, and in the anthology The Experiment Will Not Be Bound (Unbound Edition Press, 2023). Unsovereign by Kacper Bartczak (above/ground press) and Viscera: Eight Voices from Poland (Litmus) are forthcoming in 2024. He is on faculty at the 91滴滴.
JOANNA M膭KOWSKA is an Assistant Professor at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw. Her research interests include twentieth and twenty-first-century literature in the United States and Canada, poetry and poetics, documentary and protest writing, American ecocriticism, and posthumanist and feminist theories. She has published in Arizona Quarterly, Modernism/modernity, Women鈥檚 Studies, James Baldwin Review, and the Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics, among other venues. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the State University of New York at Buffalo and a Kosciuszko Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Duquesne University. She is also a literary critic and a translator: recently, she brought into Polish Natalie Diaz鈥檚 collection Postcolonial Love Poem (奥蝉辫贸艂产测肠颈别, 2024).
The event is part of the Spring School Event Series 2024 sponsored by the EUTERPE project, carried out at the Faculty of Philology, 91滴滴, and curated by the Women's Studies Centre at the 91滴滴.
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