Poets & Writers Theater
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In this 2009 video, the late Polish poet, novelist, and essayist Adam Zagajewski reads from his work and answers questions from the audience for an event at the Renaissance Society, a contemporary art museum located on the campus of the University of Chicago.
Tags: Poetry | Adam Zagajewski | Renaissance Society | 2009 | University of Chicago | in memoriam -
“If only we knew / what music is. / If only we understood,” reads Adam Zagajewski from his poem “Poets Photographed,” included in his collection Unseen Hand, in this 2015 reading at Trinity College in Cambridge, England. Recipient of the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and many other literary awards, Zagajewski died at the age of seventy-five in Krakow, Poland, on March 21, 2021.
Tags: Poetry | Adam Zagajewski | Unseen Hand | Poets Photographed | Trinity College | Cambridge | 2015 | in memoriam