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Bronislaw Maj, born
in 1953, is the author of seven volumes of poetry which have won him
prestigious literary prizes, a reputation as one of the finest poets
of his generation, and a place in many anthologies of contemporary
poetry published both in Poland and abroad. He writes newspaper
columns and has edited the literary quarterly Na Glos for many
years. He lives in Krakow and teaches at the Jagiellonian University
and the School of Creative Writing.
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| Jan Polkowski
(b. 1953) studied Polish literature in his home city of Krakow and
became an active member of anti-communist opposition as early as in
1977 and published his first poems underground a year later. Interned
during the martial law, he continued his underground publishing
business until it went legal - and expanded - in 1989. Associated with
conservative newspapers, he remains a powerful figure of his
generation's poetry.
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| Krzysztof Koehler
was born in 1963. He is associated with the new wave' of 'Barbarian'
poets who publish in the Kraków-based quarterly bruLion. He
was also part of the Barbarian movement - some of these poems also
appeared in Przyszli barbarzyncy, and in the Kraków quarterly Na
Glos.
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| Marcin Swietlicki,
born in Lublin in 1961, has lived in Cracow since 1980. He Studied
Polish Literature at the Jagiellonian University and works for the
prestigious Tygodnik Powszechny. He has won various prizes and
awards for his poetry, including the 1996 Koscielski Prize. Associated
with the 'new wave of 'Barbarian' poets who publish in the Kraków-based
quarterly bruLion, he is also lead singer and songwriter for his rock
band Swietliki.
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| Marzena
Broda was born in Kraków in 1966 and began publishing in 1985.
Associated with the of 'Barbarian' poets who publish in the Kraków-based
quarterly bruLion, Broda published her volume Swiatlo
przestrzeni (The Light of Space) in Kraków in 1990 for which she
was awarded the Kazimiera Illakowiczówna Prize. Some of these poems
also appeared in the Barbarians' manifesto, Przyszli barbarzyncy.
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| Jacek Podsiadlo,
born in Szewna near Ostrow Swietokrzyski in 1964, has worked in steel
mills and on construction sites, and until recently had his own
program on Polish Radio Opole. In the 1980s, he cooperated with the
pacifist and ecological Freedom and Peace movement. He has been
associated with bruLion since 1991 and has won many prizes and
literary competitions, including the Georg Trakl award in 1994 and
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| How does American poet Frank
O'Hara (1929-1966) come into this story? Click
here to see how two poets, friends and fellow barbarians quarrel -
about, in fact, the very essence of the poetry of their generation and
of poetry in general.
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