Late Spring Brings Floods to Poland, Costing Lives, Resources
"A little wet fox rests in safety after firefighters rescued it from flooding in Warsaw, Poland, where the Vistula river has reached unusually high levels."
(AP photo by Czarek Sokolowski / May 21, 2010)
Heavy rain in central Europe caused weeks of dangerous flooding in Poland, as well as in Hungary, Czech Republic, and Serbia from mid-May to early June. News agencies reported death tolls of at least 14 with the Vistula and Oder rivers at levels unseen since the late 19th Century. Estimated costs of relief and rebuilding efforts are about 10 billion zł., nearly 1% of Poland's GDP.
CR's Family is Growing!
CR is happy to introduce the newest member of its family, Oskar Karol Eloy Zamudio Kisielewski, born Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at 10:54 p.m. at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, weighing in at 3,520 g and measuring 57 cm. Already spoiled and doted upon, Oskar is welcomed by family in Canada, Poland, Peru, Australia, Brazil and the United States. CR congratulates Oskar's proud mommy Anna Kisielewska, a regular contributor and member of CR's editorial board.
Polish Pavilion Attracts Many at Shanghai's Expo
(The Polish Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo. Photo: Getty Images.)
The Polish Pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China, has created quite a stir. Created by WWA Architects based in Warsaw, the pavilion draws from Polish folk art paper cuttings to create a part of Poland for the world to see. To see more photos of the pavilion, take a look at the official website: http://www.polishpavilion.pl/
Fryderyk Chopin Superstar
CR's editor, Kinia Adamczyk, reported seeing these great posters of Chopin in a track jacket as she walked around Warsaw in May, celebrating the composer's 200th birthday.
Read more about Fredyryk Chopin, Superstar
Female Polish Hammer Thrower Breaks Her Own Record
Anita Wlodarczyk poses with the scoreboard displaying her new wolrd record in hammer throwing.(Photo: Getty Images)
Anita Wlodarczyk, Poland's world champion hammer thrower, broke the world record she set during early June's European Athletic Festival. The new world record for female hammer throwers now stands at 256 feet 11 inches (78.30 meters), thanks to Wlodarczyk.
Murawski Wins May Swenson Prize
Here's part of the press release:
The 2010 Swenson Award will go to Elisabeth Murawski, of Alexandria, Virginia for her collection of poems entitled Zorba's Daughter.
Ms. Murawski will receive a cash award of $1000, and Zorba's Daughter will be published by USU Press in the summer of 2010.
Murawski holds an MFA from George Mason University and is a well-published poet. She has been awarded a Hawthornden fellowship (2008), as well as residencies at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Achill Heinrich Boll Association. She is author of the collection Moon and Mercury (Washington Writers' Publishing House) and two chapbooks--Troubled by an Angel (Cleveland State Poetry Center) and Out-Patients (forthcoming from Servinghouse Books).
Over 200 of her poems have appeared in journals that include Yale Review, New Republic, Virginia Quarterly Review, Field, Ontario Review, Antioch Review, Southern Review, Dubliner, Poetry Northwest, and others. The present volume has been a finalist for the Field Poetry Prize, the Brittingham and Pollak Poetry Prize, the Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry, and The Journal/OSU Poetry Prize.
To read more about Elisabeth's book, please go to her book's website by clicking here.
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