Piotr Florczyk

Piotr Florczyk

Piotr Florczyk at Eastern Oregon University
Born Krakow, Poland
Occupation Writer, poet, translator
Notable works East & West;
Los Angeles Sketchbook

Piotr Florczyk is a poet, translator and essayist based in Los Angeles, California.

Florczyk was born and raised in Kraków, Poland, and moved to the United States at the age of sixteen. He studied History at the University of the Pacific (B.A., 2001), Creative Writing and Literature at San Diego State University (M.F.A., 2006) and the University of Southern California, and has taught both undergraduate and graduate classes in poetry, writing, and literature at Antioch University Los Angeles, Claremont McKenna College, the University of California-Riverside, the University of Delaware, the University of San Diego. He is a founding member of the artist collective & small literary press Calypso Editions and is active on the reading tour circuit.

He has published poems, translations, essays, and reviews in many journals, including The American Scholar, Boston Review, Harvard Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The New Yorker, Notre Dame Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Pleiades, Poetry International, Slate, The Southern Review, Threepenny Review, The Times Literary Supplement, West Branch, and World Literature Today.

On Florczyk's poetry, critic and poet Monika Zobel has written, "As a translator of several books of Polish poetry, Florczyk pays attention to the smallest details and has perfected bringing down linguistic borders while also preserving cultural peculiarities. In East & West he allows his readers to step over the crumbling remnants of these borders, to gaze out over the landscape to both sides, and to our astonishment realize that there are no places left to hide."[1]

Bibliography

Full-length poetry collections

Chapbooks

Essay Collections

Translations

References

  1. ↑ Zobel, Monkia. "Piotr Florczyk's East & West" Web Del Sol Review of Books May 6, 2016. https://webdelsolreviewofbooks.wordpress.com/2016/05/06/piotr-florczyks-east-west/.

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