Kacper Bartczak at the VERSeFest International Poetry Festival in Ottawa
Bartczak took part in the reading on March 29, during which poets read their work. Also reading that evening were Alexandre Yergeau and Karen Solie, winner of the Eliot Prize for 2025.
VERSeFest is one of the most important poetry events in Canada. The festival is organized by VERSe Ottawa – a non-profit organization that for years has brought poetry communities together and actively promotes poetry in the Capital Region.
The Book Institute financially supported the poet’s trip.
The full event can be watched at: https://verseottawa.ca/event/latesun2026
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Kacper Bartczak is a poet, literary scholar, translator, and researcher of American literature at the Faculty of Philology, where he heads the Department of North American Literature and Culture (Institute of English Studies, University of Łódź). He has published numerous books and articles on authors such as Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, and Peter Gizzi. He is also the author of the acclaimed monograph In Search of Communication and Community: The Poetry of John Ashbery and the essay collection Świat nie scalony, which won the annual prize of the magazine “Literatura na Świecie”. In 2025 he was honored with the Silesius Award for his lifetime poetic work.