The Best Five Places for Kissing in Warsaw
Karen Kovacik directs the creative writing program at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Her books of poetry include Metropolis Burning, Beyond the Velvet Curtain, and Nixon and I.
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CR publishes book + film reviews, interviews, profiles and more. All with a Polish slant, in English.
2011 Vol. 3 No. 3 — Fall / Poetry
2011 Vol. 3 No. 3 — Fall / Poetry
Mrs. Noah
Oriana, a former journalist and community college instructor, now teaches poetry workshops. Her awards include The New Letters Award, Felix Pollack Award, and a residency at Yaddo. Her poems, essays, and translations have been published in Poetry, Ploughshares, Best American Poetry 1992, New Letters, Nimrod, The Iowa Review, Quarterly West, Texas Review, Wisconsin Review, American Poetry Review, Southern Poetry Review, Spoon River Review, and many other journals and anthologies.
2011 Vol. 3 No. 3 — Fall / Bulletin Board
Fall 2011 Bulletin Board
• ReJoyce: Rehabilitation Joystick for Computerized Exercise
• Volunteers Needed for the Kresy-Siberia Virtual Museum
• Alex Storozynski, Tadeusz Kosciuszko and Thaddeus Kosciuszko Park
• Side by Side: Poland – Germany, 1000 Years of Art and History
• Irena Sendler and Fatima Frutos: The 2011 Kutxa Ciudad de Irun Poetry Prize
2010 Vol. 2 No. 3 — Fall / Films
“New Zealand on Screen” Releases New Film
The 1966 documentary tells the story of 734 Polish children who were adopted by New Zealand in 1944 as WWII refugees.
2010 Vol. 2 No. 2 — Summer / Books
Books In Brief – Summer 2010
• Code Name: Żegota: Rescuing Jews in Occupied Poland, 1942-1945: The Most Dangerous Conspiracy in Wartime Europe
• Warsaw Spring
• A Hint of Rain
• Quiet Hero
2010 Vol. 2 No.1 — Spring / Commentary
Poland’s Best Winter Olympic Games Ever, but…
Congratulations to Vancouver Olympic winners Justyna Kowalczyk and Adam Małysz, but… do two athletes make a team?
2009 — Winter / Books
The Black Madonna of Derby
An interview with Joanna Czechowska in The Guardian sparked CR’s instant interest in her book, The Black Madonna of Derby. Although her mother was English, Czechowska was raised in her father’s Polish community, complete with Saturday schools, scout groups and dances in the Polish Hall. Since her mother worked, Czechowska was raised by her adored and adoring Polish grandmother, who spoke several languages but none of them English.
2010 Vol. 2 No.1 — Spring / Travel
Moving Europe, Brandenburg-style
Is Europe really as far as it seems to many Europeans? Not if you move it to where the Europeans are.
2008 / Films
Battle of Warsaw ’44: Director’s Statement
Wanda Koscia is the director and producer of the documentary, “Battle for Warsaw ’44,” about the 1944 Warsaw Uprising,
2008 / Interviews
On Poles and Visas: Andrew Nagorski and Dominic Roszak
CR asks Dominic Roszak to comment on Canada’s policy regarding visa-free travel from Poland, and Andrew Nagorski for some insights into the American policy.
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