By invitation of the Center for Writers and Translators and the Department of Comparative Literature and English, Adam Zagajewski will read from his new poems and from a work in progress.

Zagajewski was born in Lvov in 1945. The leading poet of the Polish ‘Generation of’ ’68’, or Nowa fala (New Wave), he was an active dissident during the 1970s, and several of his poems and essays deal with political themes. From 1981 to 2002 he lived in Paris. He now divides his time between Krakow and Chicago, where he is Professor of Social Thought at the University of Chicago. His most recent books in English are Eternal Enemies (2008) and Without End: New and Selected Poems (2002), which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of several books of essays, memoirs, and literary sketches, among them In Defense of Ardor (2005) and Another Beauty (2002).