| Miłosz Biedrzycki in residence at International Writing Program
International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and the Polish Cultural Institute present
Poland-U.S. artists-in-residence exchange program
August 28, 2010 - November 16, 2010
Miłosz Biedrzycki (b.1967, also known by his pen name MLB) debuted in 1989 becoming a leading member of a group of Polish poets known as the "O'Harists," inspired by new translations of poetry of the New York School, who began publishing in the underground journal brulion during the last years of Communism. In search of a lively new form of language, the "brulLionists" rebelled against what they saw as the philosophical posturing of the older postwar poets like Czeslaw Milosz and Zbigniew Herbert, and the moralism of poets of the Generation of '68, like Stanislaw Baranczak or Adam Zagajewski. Since then, Biedrzycki has published over six volumes of verse. His poems have appeared in English in Chicago Review, Fence, Trafika, and Zoland Poetry; and his first English-language collection, 69, came out in August 2010 from Zephyr Press.
With this residency, the Polish Cultural Institute revives a long tradition of participation of Polish authors in the prestigious International Writing Program at the University of Iowa that dates to the program's beginnings in 1966 and has included such distinguished writers as Julia Hartwig, Ewa Lipska, Janusz Glowacki, Jerzy Pilch, Hanna Krall, Marzanna Kielar, Piotr Sommer, and many, many more.
As a part of his residency at the University of Iowa, Biedrzycki will participate in readings and panels with other International Writing Program writers.
Along with bestselling Polish author Dorota Maslowska, Biedrzycki will appear at the Brooklyn Book Festival and will share a stage for a panel entitled "Reading The World: Spotlight On International Writers And Publishers" with editors from New Directions, Archipelago, Ugly Duckling, and Zephyr presses; poets Matvei Yankelevich and Marina Temkina; and translators Susan Bernofsky, Bill Martin, and Karen Emmerich.
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