The poetry reading is planned on 14th December at 1:15pm.
Cecilia Woloch, American poet and writer, who will be visiting us briefly this week will deliver a poetry reading. The reading is planned in room 401, Collegium Paderevianum B, on Wednesday 14th December at 1.15pm.Info about Cecilia Woloch below.
Cecilia Woloch is a poet, writer, teacher, and performer based in Los Angeles.She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in rural Kentucky, earned a BA at Transylvania University and an MFA at Antioch University, Los Angeles. She has published essays, reviews, a novel and six award-winning collections of poems, most recently Earth (Two Sylvias Press 2014) and Carpathia (BOA Editions, Ltd. 2009). Influenced by Anna Akhmatova, W.S. Merwin, and Walt Whitman, Woloch writes lyrical poems of witness and exploration. Many of her poems arise from her extensive travels. She also writes autobiographical prose and fiction. Her second collection, Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem, first published in 2002, appeared in French translation as Tzigane, le poème, Gitan, from Scribe-l'Harmattan in 2014; an expanded and updated edition in English was issued by Two Sylvias Press in 2018. The text of Tsigan has been the basis for multi-lingual, multi-media performances in Los Angeles, Paris, Warsaw, Athens and elsewhere. A section of the poem was included in an exhibit at Auschwitz-Birkenau called “Through the Lens of Faith,” commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp. Her work has also been included in the Best American Poetry series and anthologies such as When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women. Her honors include a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, CEC/ArtsLink International and the Center for International Theatre Development. Woloch has conducted creative writing workshops for children and young people, senior citizens, inmates at a prison for the criminally insane, and residents at a shelter for homeless women and their children. She has also served on the faculties of a number of graduate and undergraduate creative writing programs. She collaborates regularly with musicians, dancers, visual artists, theatre artists and filmmakers. In addition to French, her work has been published in translation in German, Polish, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, and Romanes. She has spent the past year as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Rzeszów in southeastern Poland, near the westernmost border of Ukraine.