Piotr Sommer
From 8 July to 16 December 2020

Born in 1948, the poet, English-to-Polish translator and essayist Piotr Sommer holds an MA in English from the University of Warsaw. Since 1994, he has served as the editor of Literatura na Świecie, a journal of foreign writing in Polish translation. He has published numerous collections of poetry (which have been translated into English, German, Romanian, Slovak, and Slovenian) and is the recipient of the 1988 Kościelski Prize. Two collections of his work have been brought out for English readers, Continued (Wesleyan University Press, 2005) and Things to Translate and Other Poems (Dufour Editions, 1992). He has also published collections of essays on poetry and poetry anthologies, and translated into Polish the work of a number of major poets, including John Ashbery, Bertolt Brecht, John Cage, Seamus Heaney, and Charles Reznikoff.