Ewa Majewska

In this episode, we immerse in the largely unknown, yet fascinating and rebellious world of avant-garde poetry, mostly with queer and feminist authors from Poland, Canada, UK and the USA.

Małgorzata Myk (b. 1975) is an associate professor in the department of North American Literature and Culture at the University of Lodz. She is the author of the monograph Upping the Ante of the Real: Speculative Poetics of Leslie Scalapino (2019). She was Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Utah and Kosciuszko Foundation Fellow at the University of California, San Diego. She is also a translator and translated into Polish the writing of Leslie Scalapino, Divya Victor, and E. Tracy Grinnell. Pogoda, her translation of Lisa Robertson’s The Weather was published by the Cracow-based publisher Lokator in 2024. A volume of selected poetry by Kevin Davies (Disastra Publishing, Poznan) is forthcoming. Her translations of Maria Cyranowicz’s poems have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, periodicities, AzonaL, ANMLY and the chapbook A Species of Least Concern (published by Toad Press/Veliz Books in 2024).