Charles S. Kraszewski

Poetry and Prose (poetry collections, novels, plays)

—Hic sunt leones (novel) San Francisco, Montag, forthcoming 2026.

—Ismena (play in Polish), Dialog, November/December 2023 (nrs 11/12 [801–802]: 113–168).

—Skowycik (poems in Polish), Kielce: Pewne Wydawnictwo, 2022.

—Hallo, Sztokholm (poems in Polish), Kielce: Pewne Wydawnictwo, 2021.

— Chanameed (poems) Atlanta, GA: Anaphora Literary Press, 2014.

—Diet of Nails (poems) W. Somerville, MA: Červená Barva Press, 2014.

—Beast (poems) Alexandria, VA: Plan B Press, 2013.

—At the Tone (novel) San Francisco: Montag, 2024.

—Accomplices, You Ask? (novel) San Francisco: Montag, 2022.

Poetry (Individual publications)

— ‘I’m not Asking for Much’, ‘Codices of the Conquered’, ‘The Naming of the Beasts’, ‘Yawn’, ‘Nature Inépuisable’, ‘At the Corner of Aletheia and Tharsesis’, ‘On the Lawn at Vrchlického Sady’, ‘At Buonaparte’, ‘Where are You Now, Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse?’, ‘Take that, Mr Nietzsche’, ‘After a Long Road Leading Nowhere’, ‘Corso Umberto’, ‘Mesjids of Madison Ave.’, ‘Here is no God but Mammon, and Damnéd is his Profit’, in 150 Poems from Poland, translations from the Polish of Eligiusz Dymowski, Artur Grabowski, Wojciech Kass, Krzysztof Koehler, Andrzej Kotański, Jakub Pacześniak, Adriana Szymańska, Teresa Tomsia, Michał Zabłocki, C.S. Kraszewski. Waterloo, Ont.: Arouca Books, 2025.

— ‘Corso Umberto’ and ‘A Note to Future Ovids’,  Exterminating Angel Press, Summer 2025.

— ‘The Greatness that was Greece’, Exterminating Angel Presss, Spring 2025.

— ‘Weda’, ‘Carskie wrota’, ‘Coś podobnego jak okupacja Krymu’ Arcana 1–2 (2025) nrs. 182–183:126-128.

—‘Nature Inépuisable,’ and ‘Koledze po piórze’ in Tydzién polski, ‘Dodatek literacki’ London, 29 November 2024, eds. Regina Wąsiak-Taylor, Nina Janczewska, p. 16.

—‘Prysznic u Konwickiego,’ ‘Kłopoty z językiem,’ ‘Cztery ostatnie rzeczy na mojej głowie,’ ‘O co proszę, to nie tak dużo’ and ‘Aktor w średnim powiedzmy wieku ma recytować Baczyńskiego’ in Arkusz londyński; Pisarze i malarze, ed. Regina Wąsiak-Taylor (London: ZPPnO, 2022), pp. 71–77.

—’Exegit cholera jasna monumentum’ Nowy napis co tydzień 2021.

—’Ja i Pan Cogito’ Nowy napis co tydzień 2021.

—’Jak zostać wrogiem ludu’ Nowy napis co tydzień 2021.

—’Kodeksy zgładzonych’ Nowy napis co tydzień 2021.

—’Kłopoty z językiem’ Nowy napis co tydzień 2021.

—’Morfologia miłości’ Nowy napis co tydzień 2021.

—’Nazwanie bestii’ Nowy napis co tydzień 2021.

—’Nowe osiedle. Tyk tyk tyk’ Nowy napis co tydzień 2021.

—’O co proszę, to nie tak dużo’ Nowy napis co tydzień 2021.

—’Wyjaśnienie’ Nowy napis co tydzień 2021.

—’Heinrich Böll is Dead. Long Live Heinrich Böll,’ Exterminating Angel Press, the Magazine, Summer 2020.

—‘Tytul? Po co?’ Pisarze.pl nr 21/19 (44).

—‘Daremna próba rozmowy z martwą naturą,’ Pisarze.pl nr 21/19 (44).

—‘Mały poemat w trzech częściach o samotności,’ Pamiętnik literacki LVII (June 2019): 78-79.

—’Orange Green White Black,’ Exterminating Angel Press, the Magazine, Spring 2018.

—’Out Front of the Situation Room,’ Exterminating Angel Press, the Magazine, Winter 2018.

—‘E. Observatory Ave., After Sunset,’ Red Weather, October 2017.

—’New Development. And Ticking,’ Red Weather, October 2017.

—‘Abba Ojczym,’ Pamiętnik literacki LIV(December 2017):163-164.

—Stripped and Despoiled, in Exterminating Angel Press, the Magazine,  July 2017.

—‘Doktor Faustus: Epiphania peccatoris’ and ‘Doktor Faustus w MacDonaldzie’ Odra MMXVII (2017) 2:79-80.

—‘The Inheritors,’ Illya’s Honey, Spring, 2017.

—’No Mokṣa  in the Offing for Albin Balbus,’ Exterminating Angel Press Spring 2017.

—‘Clones on the Beach,’ Exterminating Angel Press, the Magazine, January 2017.

—‘The (Clear) View from Ospedale Sant’Anna,’ Exterminating Angel Press, the Magazine, September 2016.

—‘In the National Archives, Kew,’ Exterminating Angel Press, the Magazine April 2016.

—‘A Poem About Not Going to Communion,’ Exterminating Angel Press, the Magazine September 2015.

—‘Wiara złych duchów; na rogu Jagiellońskiej i Szewskiej,’ Dziennik polski (Kraków) LXXI:207 (5-6 September 2015): A7.

—‘Doktor Faustus ogląda konkurs Miss America w telewizji,’ Pamiętnik literacki XLVIII (June 2015).

—‘Doktor Faustus otwiera pocztę,’ Pamiętnik literacki XLIX(June 2015):129-130.

—‘Wypadek na  I-95,’ Pamiętnik literacki XLVIII (December 2014):89-90.

—‘Morfologia miłości,’ Pamiętnik literacki XLVIII (December 2014):13.

—‘Wiara złych duchów; na rogu Jagiellońskiej i Szewskiej’ Pamiętnik literacki XLVIII (December 2014):50.

—‘Down in the Tube Station (not necessarily at midnight),’ Cycle of eleven poems, Exterminating Angel Press, The Magazine.  Spring, 2015.

—’Londyn — dzielnica handlowa,’ Pamiętnik literacki XLVII (June 2014): 24.

—’Budowniczym,’ Pamiętnik literacki XLVII (June 2014): 44.

—’Doktor Faustus ogląda konkurs Miss America w telewizji,’ Odra MMXIV (2014) 11:131.

—’Wyrok,’ Odra MMXIV (2014) 11:131.

—’Morfologia miłości’ Odra MMXIV (2014) 11:131.

—’A Planh for Bob Schrader,’ Exterminating Angel, Spring, 2014.

—’Worlds on Him, Like Pearls on a String,’ Exterminating Angel, July, 2013.

—’The Death of Dumnorix,’ Exterminating Angel,  October, 2013.

—’Indian Heads,’ Levure Litteraire, nr. 7, 2013.

—’Don’t You Feel Safe Now,’ Illya’s Honey, Fall 2012.

—’Piers,’ Red Ochre LiT (Fall 2012).

—’Pennsylvania,’ Black & White, Vol. 1 Nr. 3 (Fall 2012).

—’South of Bixby Bridge (Escaping from Tor House),’ Black & White, Vol. 1 Nr. 3 (Fall 2012).

—’Mesjids of Madison Avenue,’ Red River Review, May 2012.

—’Every Now and Then the Granite Gets a Chance to Breathe,’ Illya’s Honey, Spring 2012.

—’It’s Not All That Thick,’ Illya’s Honey, Spring 2012.

—’Juniper Bushes,’ Red Ochre Lit, November 2011.

—’What They Meant to Say,’ OVS  Magazine January 2012: 36-38.

—’World Peace Pilgrimage to Mt. Baldy (Trying to Scurry Off in the Opposite Direction),’ Red River Review, February 2012:43.

—’Coit Tower,’ The California Quarterly, 37:3

—’Washington Square,’ The California Quarterly, 37:3

—’Fossils,’ forthcoming in the book Letters to Los Angeles (Los Angeles: Palehouse).

—’Letter of Protest,’ The Lyric, 91(Summer 2011) 3:100.

—’Lunchtime Hierophany,’ Red River Review, November 2011.

—’Garden District,’ Valley Voices, 11 (2011) 1:94-95.

—’Footbridge over the Merced, Gazing into the Clear Water,’ Red River Review, August 2011:37.

—’Elderly Poets,’ Red River Review, August 2011:38.

—’Terminat auctor opus,’ and ‘The Pacific,’ Poetry South, 2010, 2: 19-20.

—The Yaps and Growlings, this Burly Surf, cycle of five poems, Chaparral, Summer 2010.

Translations

— Poems 1947–1960 (translation from the Czech of Jan Zahradníček), forthcoming, Waterloo, Ont.: Arouca Press, 2026.

— Prague in Thaw / Praha za času plujících ker (translation from the Czech or Rio Preisner, and afterword), Brno: MUNI Press, 2025.

— Letters 1892–1910, translated from the Polish of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (Mikołaj Konstanty Czurlanis), ed. Radosław Okulicz-Kozaryn, Nijolė Adomavičenė, Petras Kimbris (Kaunas: National Čiuirlionis Museum, 2025).

— 150 Poems from Poland, translations from the Polish of Eligiusz Dymowski, Artur Grabowski, Wojciech Kass, Krzysztof Koehler, Andrzej Kotański, Jakub Pacześniak, Adriana Szymańska, Teresa Tomsia, Michał Zabłocki, C.S. Kraszewski. Waterloo, Ont.: Arouca Books, 2025.

— The Fir-Tree Wilds, translation from the Polish of Stefan Żeromski, commissioned by the Filharmonia Świętokrzyska, Kielce, 2025.

—The Battle of Monte Cassino (translation from the Polish of Melchior Wańkowicz) Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024.

—Fu(*n*)k Bomb (translation from the Czech of Karel Veselý) London: Glagoslav, forthcoming 2025.

— The Slovak Epics (Svatopluk, the Cyrillo-Methodiad, Sláv) (translation from the Slovak of Ján Hollý) London: Glagoslav, 2025.

— Tefil (translation from the Polish of Rafał Wojasiński) London: Glagoslav, 2024.

—Writings (1416–1432): The Struggle for the Self-Determination of Central Europe (translation from the Latin of Paweł Włodkowic) Warsaw: Teologia polityczna / Rome: Angelicum: 2023.

— On the Road to Freedom and From Captivity (translation from the Slovak of Janko Jesenský) London: Glagoslav, 2023.

— Selected Works: Poetry, Drama, Prose (translation from the Polish of Jan Kochanowski) London: Glagoslav, 2023.

— Kinderszenen (translation from the Polish of Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz) Seattle: Slant Books, 2023.

— Selected Works: Poetry, Drama, Prose (translation from the Polish of Jan Kochanowski, with introduction) London: Glagoslav, 2023.

—Poems about my Psychiatrist (translation from the Polish of Andrzej Kotański, with introduction) London: Glagoslav, 2022.

—Ballads and Romances (translation from the Polish of Adam Mickiewicz, with introduction) London: Glagoslav, 2022.

—The Revolt of the Animals (translation from the Polish of Władysław Reymont, with introduction) London: Glagoslav, 2022.

—Wierzyński: Sense Beyond Catastrophe (translation from the Polish of Wojciech Wencel) Kraków: Instytut Literatury, 2021.

—Głosy / Voices (translation from the Polish of Jan Polkowski) London: Glagoslav, 2021.

—Dramatic Works (translation from the Polish of Cyprian Kamil Norwid, with introduction) London: Glagoslav, 2021.

—The Vow. A Requiem for the Fifties (translation from the Czech of Jiří Kratochvil, with introduction) London: Glagoslav, 2021.

—Slavdom. A Selection of his Writings, in Prose and Verse (translation from the Slovak of Ľudovit Štúr, with introduction) London: Glagoslav, 2021.

— Where Was the Angel Going? (translation from the Czech of Jan Balabán, with introduction), London: Glagoslav, 2020.

— Olanda (translation from the Polish of Rafał Wojasiński, with introduction), London: Glagoslav, 2020.

— The Mouseiad and other Mock Epics (translation from the Polish of Ignacy Krasicki, with introduction), London: Glagoslav, 2019. (translations include: Mouseiad, Monachomachia, Anti-monachomachia, Chocim War).

— A Burglar of the Better Sort (translation from the Polish of collected poetry and dramatic works of Tytus Czyżewski, with introduction), London: Glagoslav, 2019.

— Four Plays (translation from the Polish of Juliusz Słowacki, with introduction), London: Glagoslav, 2018. (translations include: Mary Stuart, Kordian, Balladyna, Horsztyński).

— Dramatic Works (translation from the Polish of Zygmunt Krasiński, with introduction), London: Glagoslav, 2018. (translations include: The Undivine Comedy, Irydion, The Unifinished Poem, The Year 1848).

—The Sonnets. Including the Erotic Sonnets, the Crimean Sonnets and Uncollected Sonnets (translation from the Polish of Adam Mickiewicz, with introduction), London: Glagoslav, 2018.

—The Secret History of my Sojourn in Russia (translation from the Czech of Jaroslav Hašek, with introduction), London: Glagoslav, 2017.

—Maybe We’re Leaving (translation from the Czech of Jan Balabán, with introduction), London: Glagoslav, 2017.

—Acropolis: the Wawel Plays (translation from the Polish of Stanisław Wyspiański, with introduction), London: Glagoslav, 2017. (translations include: Wanda [Legenda II], Bishop, King. Bishop [Bolesław Śmiały, Skałka], Akropolis [Acropolis]).

—Forefathers’Eve (translation from the Polish of Adam Mickiewicz, with introduction), London: Glagoslav, 2016.

—Rossetti’s Armadillo (verse translations, with commentaries), Newcastle-on-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013.

—Irresolute Heresiarch: Catholicism, Gnosticism and Paganism in the Poetry of Czesław Miłosz, Newcastle-on-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012.

—St. Robert BELLARMINE, On the Eternal Happiness of the Saints (translated from the Latin, introduced and annotated by CSK) St. Louis, MO: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2012.

—Fifty Years of Polish Scholarship: The Polish Review, 1956-2006 (New York: PIASA Books, 2006), editor and contributor.

—His Holiness Pope John Paul II: A Commemorative Volume of Essays From the Members of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America  (New York: PIASA Books, 2006), editor and contributor.

— Essays on the Dramas of Zbigniew Herbert.  Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.

—The Gospel of Matthew, with Patristic Commentaries, translated from the original tongues, introduced, and annotated by C.S. K. Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1999 (trans. from Greek and Latin).

—Four Translation Strategies Determined by the Particular Needs of the Receptor: Translation Theory Backwards.  Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1998.

—The Romantic Hero and Contemporary Anti-Hero in Polish and Czech Literature: Great Souls and Grey Men. Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1997.

—DOROSZ, Beata, ed. Evening on the Hudson: An Anthology of Jan Lechoń’s American Writings (New York: PIASA Books, 2006), translator of journal excerpts and selected poetry.

— PREISNER, Rio. Visuté mosty: vybrané básne (Hanging Bridges: Selected Poetry trans. C.S. Kraszewski) Svitavy: Trinitas/Rome: Accademia Cristiana, 1996 (trans. from Czech).

—KOCHANOWSKI, Jan. The Dismissal of the Grecian Envoys Studio City, CA: Players Press, 1994 (trans. from Polish, with critical introduction).

—KANTOR, Tadeusz. Complete Theatrical Works and Happenings, available in manuscript form for scholars at Cricoteka Archives, Kraków, Poland (trans. from Polish).

Smaller Tanslations

—GRABOWSKI, Artur.’Foul Weather (A Parable)’, Exterminating Angel Press, the Magazine, Fall, 2023.

—PACZEŚNIAK, Jakub.’the blooming meadows’, Exterminating Angel Press, the Magazine, Fall, 2023.

—KOCHANOWSKI, Jan. The Dismissal of the Grecian Envoys. Performance of my translation, at the Bear Pit Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, as part of the Shakespeare and Poland festival; 24 June 2023, Directed by Jason Morell.

—Fifteen poems of Jan Polkowski (W koronach brzóz; Wolni od miłości; *** Parują lasy; *** Odwiedzają mnie czasami; Dalekie ognie; Głos; Ogród; Pniowo; *** Jestem tu między wami; Dom i ucieczka; Strumień wieczności; Piosenki; Ptaki dopadł głód; *** Nie ma ich jeszcze; Pragnienie) translated into English for film on Jan Polkowski (Kraków: Instytut Literatury, 2023.

—Eight poems of Jan Polkowski (Kraków crows cawing flying off in search of food; AWAY WITH THE COMMOTION; FIRST SNOW (A VIEW FROM THE WINDOW); ONLY FROM YOU DO I SEEK NO COMFORT; ON THE JOURNEY; In the beginning was the cathedral like a broken wing — limp and white; Taking no note of the turn-off from the narrow path; Thou art the grey of all greys) translated for English-subtitled version of film Jan Polkowski, Kraków: moje miejsce na ziemi [Jan Polkowski, Kraków: My Place on Earth] directed by Iwona Meus, Marek Gajczak (Kraków: Instytut Literatury, 2020 / this version 2022)

—NORWID, Cyprian Kamil. ‘Chopin’s Grand Piano’ Pamiętnik literacki (London) LXII (December 2021): 81–84.

—SZYMIK, Jerzy. ‘The Garden in Pszów,’ ’Sara Sampalo,’ New Books from Poland (Warsaw/Kraków: Book Institute, 2021) p. 45.

—KASS, Wojciech. ‚In the City of W. Early Morning,’ ’That From the Dead,’ ‚There Were Many Such’ New Books from Poland (Warsaw/Kraków: Book Institute, 2021) p. 47\

—LÓPEZ-MILLS, Tedi. Śmierć na rúa Augusta (fragments)  Czas Literatury 1 (9) 2020: 25-28.

—ZABŁOCKI, Michał.’Who approachest in the trumpet of the whirlwind’ Exterminating Angel Press, the Magazine, Winter, 2020.

—KOCHANOWSKI, Jan. The Dismissal of the Grecian Envoys. Performance of my translation, at Shakespeare’s Globe, as part of the Globe’s Shakespeare and Poland festival; 30 June 2019, Directed by James Wallace.

—MICKIEWICZ, Adam.  ‘Lilies’ (Translation of the narrative poem ‘Lilie’ commissioned by Lustro Sceny Theatre [Edinburgh, Scotland] for production, 2017.)

—FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence. ‘Wiersze’ [Poems] (Two poems translated into Polish: ‘Raga na zamach’ [‘Assassination Raga’] and „Cmentarz na Queensie, przy zachodzie słońca’ [‘Queens Cemetary, Setting Sun’] Odra MMXVI (2016) 11:68-73.

—JEFFERS, Robinson. (Six poems translated into Polish: ‘Okrężnica,’ ‘Zranione jastrzębie,’ ‘Łóżko przy oknie,’ ‘Kopiec Shane’a O’Neilla,’ ‘Procesy powojenne,’ and ‘Głaz samobójcy,’) Odra MMXIV (2014) 11:62-65.

—WIRPSZA, Witold.  Apotheosis of the Dance (verse cycle ranslated from the Polish) in InTranslation, April 2014.

—BARAŃCZAK, Stanisław.  Artificial Respiration (twenty-seven poems translated from the Polish) in InTranslation, June 2013.

—LÓPEZ MILLS, Tedi. From Death on Rúa Augusta (eleven poems translated from the Spanish) in InTranslation, March 2013.

—ELIOT, T.S. ‘Chóry z Opoki‘ [‘Choruses from The Rock‘] in Odra MMXII (2012) 2:49-56.

—TABORSKI, Bolesław. ‘Thank You for Coming.’ Translation from the Polish of the poem ‘Dzięki Ci za przyjście’ The Polish Review LV (2010) 4:447.

—IHNATOWICZ, Janusz A. ‘Pavanne for Friends Departed.’ Translation from the Polish of the cycle ‘Na odejście’ The Polish Review LIV (2009) 4:489-492.

—KANTOR, Tadeusz.  ‘Cricotage.’  Translated from the Polish.  Alain Badiou, ed. A Theater without Theater (Barcelona: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2008), p. 120.

—KANTOR, Tadeusz.  ‘Sea Concert.’  Translated from the Polish.  Alain Badiou, ed. A Theater without Theater (Barcelona: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2008), p. 123.

—ZAHRADNÍČEK, Jan. Sign of Power .  Translated from the Czech [Znamení moci], introduced and annotated by CSK, in Kosmas. 19 (2006) 1: 37-63.

—TWARDOWSKI, Fr. Jan. ‘Spieszmy się kochać. . .’ in The Polish Review, XL (2004) 4:1110-1111.

—IHNATOWICZ, Janusz A.  ‘Eleven Poems’ in The Polish Review, XLVIII (2003) 4: 483-486.

—’Cursed Be Learning’ (translation of poem from the Byzantine Greek of Theodoros Prodromos.) The Classical Outlook,  76 (1999) 3:2-3.

—SCHAEFFER, Bogusław. Eskimo Heaven  (III Audience for Actor and Actress) Play, directed by Andrew Krukowski.  Commissioned by Chicago Actors Ensemble and produced in Autumn 1995 season.

—HERBERT, Zbigniew. ‘Shame’ in The New Yorker,  31 Jan 1994:52.

—CHMIELNIK, Jacek. Romanca. Play, directed by Andrew Krukowski.  Commissioned by Chicago Actors Ensemble and produced in Autumn 1994 season.

—HERBERT, Zbigniew. ‘Rovigo’ in The Antaeus 69 (1992):61-62.

—BARAŃCZAK, Stanisław.  ‘From Artificial Respiration—six poems translated and introduced by Charles S. Kraszewski’, in The Hillsdale Review VIII (1986) 3:45-51.

Articles/Presentations

— ‘Jak przetłumaczyłem Ballady i romanse na język angielski. Wokół prozodii Mickiewicza’ Przegląd humanistyczny LXIX (2025): 3/490:102–112.

— ‘Wańkowicz po angielsku. Rozmowa z Charlesem Kraszewskim, tłumaczem’ Interview with Adam Talarowski, Teologia Polityczna 15 V 24.

— Introduction to Jan Kochanowski’s Dismissal of the Grecian Envoys, participation in question and answer following the play, with actors and director, moderated by Prof. Tony Howard, Bear Pit Theatre, 24 June 2023.

—‘O tłumaczniue Ballad i romansów na język angielski.’ Paper given at conference ‘Mickiewicz w Tyńcu,’ Kraków 14 October 2022

—‘Głosy / Voices: Exhibition, followed by discussion on the poetry of Jan Polkowski. Charles Kraszewski, Translatorski, Maria Gąsiecka, photographer, moderator by Magdalena Filipczuk,’ Sangeet Shyamala Gallery, New Delhi, India, 7 October 2022.

—‘Polish Theatre from Kochanowski to Kantor’ lecture at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India, 7 October 2022.

—‘The Acknowledged Legislators of Mankind: an Overview of Polish Romanticism as National and International Literary Movement,’ lecture at the Department of Slavic and Finno-Ugric Languages, Delhi University, Delhi, India, 6 October 2022.

—‘Rok romantyzmu: Mickiewicz, Krasiński, Słowacki, Wyspiański’ [The Year of Romanticism: Mickiewicz, Krasiński, Słowacki, Wyspiański]’ filmed interview with Karol Samsel, Instytut Teatru [The Theatre Institute], Warsaw, 22 July 2022.

—‘Cyprian Norwid,’ Lecture presented at the Sam Wannamaker Theatre in connection with the staging there of my translation of Norwid’s Cleopatra and Caesar. Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London, 26 June 2022.

—‘Every Inch a… Woman. On Cyprian Kamil Norwid’s Cleopatra and Caesar,’ programme notes for Cleopatra and Caesar. Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London, 26 June 2022.

—‘Jan Kochanowski. Poland’s Shakespeare… and Marlowe, and Jonson, and Donne.’ Lecture presented at the Guild Chapel, Stratford upon Avon, in connection with the celebrations marking the unveiling of the statue of Jan Kochanowski in the garden of Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Stratford upon Avon, 25 June 2022.

—‘Jan Kochanowski. An Introduction.’ Speech at the unveiling of Andrew Lilley’s statue of Jan Kochanowski in the garden of Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Stratford upon Avon, 25 June 2022.

—‘Dramaty Cypriana Norwida [The Plays of Cyprian Norwid]’ filmed interview with Karol Samsel, Instytut Teatru [The Theatre Institute], Warsaw, 7 June 2022.

—‘Poeta i jego tłumacze: Jan Polkowski’ Panel discussion along with Ireneusz Staroń (moderator), Emilia Seraller Calvo (translator into Spanish) and Constantin Geambasu (translator into Romanian), 2022 World Congress of Translators of Polish Literature, 2 June 2022, Kraków.

—‘Loneliness and Engagement: the Plays of Cyprian Kamil Norwid,’ lecture at Ognisko Polskie, Kensington, London, 6 April 2022.

—’Across Language and Time: Translating the Classics’ presentation and panel discussion along with Rosie Goldsmith (BBC, moderator), Ka Bradley (Penguin Books) and Peter Bush (translator), Olympia Theatre, London Book Fair 2022, 5 April 2022. Event co-organised by the Institut Ramon Llull of Barcelona, and the Book Institute of Poland.

—‘Povolání humanistické jako žádné jiné’ host 7 dni online 09/08/2021

—‘Śmierć na Rúa Augusta: Nowy humanizm Tedi López Mills’ Czas Literatury 1 (9) 2020: 24-25.

—‘Let Me Explain Myself: on the Intimate Art of Literary Translation,’ presentation at Ognisko Polskie, followed by conversation with Jolanta Rzegocka, Kensington, London, 6 March 2020.

—‘From Kochanowski to Kantor: the Polish Stage as Gauntlet Thrown,’ presentation at Archway Library Islington, London, 4 March 2020.

—‘Titus Czyżewski i przyszłość poezji polskiej’ presentation at Polski Uniwersytet na Obcyźnie, Hammesmith, London, 2 March 2020.

—‘The Humanist Spirit of Jan Kochanowski,’ article printed in Shakespeare and Poland programme for festival held at Shakespeare’s Globe, pp. 6-9.

—‘Jan Kochanowski,’ presentation delivered at Shakespeare’s Globe, London, 30 June 2019, as part of the Globe’s Shakespeare and Poland festival.

—‘Etyka translatorska,’ [The Translator and Ethics], presentation delivered at Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 10 May 2019, at invitation of Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

—‘The Upside of Exile, or Kazimierz Wierzyński and Poetic Form.’ Paper delivered at conference Kazimierz Wierzyński: życie i twórczość [Kazimierz Wierzyński: Life and Writings] London,  16 February 2019 (PAN, Polish University Abroad), ‘Chcę wrócić jak emigrant, z podróży dalekiej, Z papieru, z martwych liter, żywy, do twych rąk’ Życie i twórczość Kazimierza Wierzyńskiego (1894–1969) [‘I want to return like an emigré, from a distant journey, From paper, from dead letters, alive, to your heart…’ The Life and Work of Kazimierz Wierzyński (1894–1969)] ed. Beata Dorosz (Warsaw: PAN, 2019), pp. 45–68.

—‘Three Faces of Polish Romanticism: Krasiński, the Aristocratic Rebel, Słowacki, Poland’s Shakespeare, A Mickiewicz of Flesh and Blood.’ Presentation delivered at Polish Hearth Club, London, 6 March 2019 as part of book launch for Mickiewicz’s Sonnets, Krasiński’s Dramatic Works, Słowacki’s Four Plays.

—‘Rio Preisner’s Trialogue with Renascent Independent Culture in Czecho-Slovakia,’ in Kritik moderního světa: Rio Preisner, 1925-2007, ed. Jiří Hanuš, Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2018, pp. 50-81.

—’O dramatopisarstwie Eliota,’ Odra MMXVI (2017) 10:61-68.

—’The Higher Mystery: the Eternal Feminine in the Poetry of Adam Mickiewicz,’ paper presented at National Bards Conference, The Pennsylvania State University (18-20 February 2016).

—’Janusz A. Ihnatowicz i T.S. Eliot,’ Pamiętnik literacki XLVIII (December 2014):15-34.

—’Death on Rúa Augusta: the New Humanism of Tedi López Mills’ in Religious and Sacred Poetry. Religion, Culture and Education 3:2 (2015): 107-152.

—’Dynamic Trinitarianism and the Christology of the Kontakia of St. Romanos ho Melodos’ in Religious and Sacred Poetry. Religion, Culture and Education (forthcoming, 2015).

—’Jeffers: Poeta nieludzki,’ Odra MMXIV (2014) 11:56-61.

—’Estetyka niszczenia w poezji polskiej lat 70-80′ [‘The Aesthetics of Destruction in Polish Poetry of the 1970s-1980s’] lecture presented at the Polski Uniwersytet Ludowy, Philadelphia, PA, 16 November 2014.

—’De-Clawing the Christian Horace: The Suppression of Sarbievius’Roman Catholicism by his British Translators’ in Religious and Sacred Poetry. Religion, Culture and Education 2:1 (2014): 61-78.

—’British Natures, Polish Poets: The Continents Group as an Example of Ethnic British Literature’ in Religious and Sacred Poetry. Religion, Culture and Education 2:1 (2013) 97-116.

—’Polska i Polacy u Pounda, Eliota i innych modernistów’ [‘Poland and Poles in Pound and Eliot and Other Modernists’] in Odra MMXII (2012) 11:37-48.

—’Żyjcie jak prawdziwi chrześcijanie: Notatki na marginesie Opoki T.S. Eliota’ [‘Live Like Real Christians: Marginal Notes on T.S. Eliot’s The Rock‘] in Odra MMXII (2012) 2:44-48.

—’Karel Havlíček-Borovský, Tyrolské elegie (Tyrolean Elegies, 1852), Translation and Commentary,’ Kosmas 25 (2011) 1:151-171.

—’The Enemy Within: the Dialogic Verse of Czesław Miłosz,’ presented at 2011 convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Scottsdale, AZ, October 2011.

—’Samotność i hermetyczność w wierszach amerykańskich Czesława Miłosza’ [‘Loneliness and Hermeticism in the American Poems of Czesław Miłosz’] in Odra MMXI (2011) 5:58-66.

—’The Inferno Ouside the Window: Dantean Themes in the Poetry of Jan Zahradníček,’ presented at 2010 convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Albuquerque, NM, October 2010.

—’Neither the Forest nor the Trees: Witold Gombrowicz’s Pornografia.  Failed Novel or Cynical Masterpiece?’ in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism  (TCLC-247), ed. Larry Trudeau. (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, forthcoming 2011).  Solicited reprint of article originally appearing in The Polish Review, L (2005) 1:43-70.

—‘Poland and Poles in the Consciousness of the Anglo-American Modernists,’ Paideuma 38 (2011):119-156.

— ‘British Subjects, Polish Poets: the Continents Group as an Example of Ethnic British Literature,’ presented at 2010 conference of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Pomona College, Claremont, CA,  March 19-21, 2010.

—‘From the PIASA Archives: Tadeusz Kantor at P.I.A.S.A., May 21, 1982.’  Transcription, translation, annotations by C.S.K., The Polish Review LIV (2009) 3:325-360.

—’Exile as Implosion and Expansion: the Effect of American Banishment in the Poetry of Czesław Miłosz and Rio Preisner,’ paper presented at Sixth Annual Rocky Mountain European Scholars conference, October 2009, Northern Arizona University. Published in Connections European Studies Annual Review 6 (2010): 19-27.

—‘De-Clawing the Christian Horace: The Suppression of Sarbievius’Roman Catholicism by his British Translators ‘ paper presented at the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, March 15, 2009, University of San Diego.

—‘Rio Preisner’s Trialogue with Renascent Independent Culture in Czecho-Slovakia’ paper presented at Fifth Annual Rocky Mountain European Scholars conference, October 2008, University of Arizona. Published in Connections European Studies Annual Review 5 (2009): 128-144.

—‘Don’t Look Back, Orpheus: ‘Before’and ‘After’in the Poetry of Rio Preisner,’ Kosmas, XXI (2008) 2:43-79.

—’Revenant Spirits in Slovak Folk Narrative Poems,’ Kosmas, XX (2007) 2:1-27.

— ‘The Harmonic Bell-Jar: Wierzyński, Barańczak and the Poetics of Anti-Heroic Dissent,’ The Polish Review LII (2007) 2:193-214.

—’Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski: The Christian Horace in England,’  The Polish Review, LI (2006) 1:15-40. First given as a presentation during the conference ‘Britain and Poland-Lithuania, Contact and Comparison from the Middle Ages to 1795,’ an international conference sponsored by the Faculty and Institute of History of Jagiellonian University, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, 17 September 2005.

—’Apocalypsis in the Poetry of Jan Zahradníček’ [„Apokalypsa v básníctví Jana Zahradníčka’] in Mars Moravicus, ed. Erik Gilk (Olomouc: Acata Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis, 2005), pp. 215-230. First given as a presentation during the Mars Moravicus session (Czech) of the World Congress, Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 30 July 2004.

—’Neither the Forest nor the Trees: Witold Gombrowicz’s Pornografia.  Failed Novel or Cynical Masterpiece?’ The Polish Review, L (2005) 1:43-70.

—’The Eloquent Silence of Eligiusz Dymowski’ [‘Wymowna cisza Eligiusza Dymowskiego,’ afterword to Eligiusz Dymowski, Przemilczenia—Unsaid (Kraków: Oficyna Konfraterni Poetów, 2005), pp. 53-67.

—’Dziady,’ in Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850, ed. Christopher John Murray (New York/London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004), pp. 302-303.

—’Krasiński, Zygmunt (Spiridion Prawdzicki),’ in Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850, ed. Christopher John Murray (New York/London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004), pp. 625-627.

—’Pan Tadeusz (Master Thaddeus, or The Last Foray in Lithuania),’ in Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850, ed. Christopher John Murray (New York/London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004), pp. 850-851.

—’Poland: Cultural Survey,’ in Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850, ed. Christopher John Murray (New York/London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004), pp. 886-887.

—’Poland: Historical Survey,’ in Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850, ed. Christopher John Murray (New York/London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004), pp. 887-889.

—’Krakus Retires to the Forest, or On the Mythological Strata of C.K. Norwid’s Krakus, książę nieznany.’ The Polish Review, XLVIII (2003) 4: 395-440.

—’Of Whores and Heiresses: Polish Women, German Men and Stereotypes in Heinrich Böll’s Der Zug war pünktlich and Krzysztof Zanussi’s Drogi pośród nocy‘.  Comparative Literature Studies, 40 (2003) 3:286-310.

—’Our God’s Other Brother: Wojtyła, Bunsch and St Brother Albert on Stage,’ The Polish Review XLVII (2002) 3:255-279.

—’Our God’s Brother: An Interview with Krzysztof Zanussi,’ The Polish Review XLVII (2002) 3:280-288.

—’’Here and Now’in the Martial Poetry of Sarbievius,’ The Polish Review XLVI (2001) 3:313-326.

—’Eschatological Imagery in the Early Verse of Stanisław Barańczak,’ The Polish Review, XLVI (2001) 1:43-61.

—’Kantor’s Crucifixions: The Use of the ’Village Lexicon of Suffering’in the Theatrical Works of Tadeusz Kantor,’ The Polish Review, XLIV (1999) 2:151-182.

—’Witold Gombrowicz,’ Encyclopedia of Literary Critics and Criticism, ed. Chris Murray (New York/London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), pp. 465-467.

—’Robert Graves,’ Encyclopedia of Literary Critics and Criticism, ed. Chris Murray (New York/London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), pp. 480-485.

—’Gerard Manley Hopkins,’ Encyclopedia of Literary Critics and Criticism, ed. Chris Murray (New York/London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), pp. 530-533.

—’Roman Ingarden,’ Encyclopedia of Literary Critics and Criticism, ed. Chris Murray (New York/London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), pp. 557-559.

—’The Poor Man’s Macbeth: Zbigniew Herbert’s Anti-Tragedy Drugi pokój (The Other Room)’ The Polish Review, XLIII (1998) 3:261-275.

—’Letters from Our Readers: Zbigniew Herbert’s Myth of Democles.’ The Polish Review, XLIII (1998) 3:277-298.

—’Now the Hungry Dog’s Come Out: Zbigniew Herbert’s Lalek and the Question: Who is my Brother?’ The Polish Review, XLII (1997) 3:277-296.

—’That Odd Enjambment: Use of ‘s in Gerard Manley Hopkins’‘My Own Heart Let Me Have More Pity On’and William Barnes’Poems in the Dorset Dialect’ Explicator, 54 (1995) 1:14-17.

—’Hardy’s ‘The Burghers’, Explicator, 52 (1994) 2:86-90.

—’Stanisław Wyspiański as Proselytising Translator: National Directioning in his Polonisations of Hamlet and Le Cid.’ Canadian Slavonic Papers, XXXV (1993) 3-4:307-328.

—’A Greek Pedigree for Faustus’Final Soliloquy: Marlowe’s Ironic Use of Aischylos’ Hiketides and Classical Stagecraft in Doctor Faustus.’ Paper presented June 29, 1993 at 3^rd International Conference of Christopher Marlowe Society, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England.

—’Biblical Allusion in Jan Zahradníček’s Znamení moci.’ Canadian Slavonic Papers, XXXIII (1991) 3-4 :225-242.

—’Norwid’s Quidam as Heroic Literature.’ The Polish Review, XXXVI (1991) 3:309-322.

—’Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’ in Cyclopedia of World Authors, ed. Frank N. Magill (Pasadena: Salem Press, inc., 1990), pp. 1613-1614.

—’Tadeusz Kantor’ in Cyclopedia of World Authors,ed. Frank N. Magill (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1990), pp. 804-805.

—’Witold Gombrowicz’ in Cyclopedia of World Authors,ed. Frank N. Magill (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1990), pp. 610-611.

—‘George Steiner’ in Cyclopedia of World Authors,ed. Frank N. Magill (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1990), pp. 1418-1420.

—’Aleksander Wat’s My Century‘ in Magill’s Literary Annual, ed. Frank N. Magill (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1989), Vol. II, pp. 571-576.

—’The Memorandum (Havel)’ in Masterplots II: Drama, ed. Frank N. Magill (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1989), pp. 1077-1081.

—’Operetta (Gombrowicz)’ in Masterplots II: Drama, ed. Frank N. Magill (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1989), pp. 1180-1184.

—’Wielopole, Wielopole (Kantor)’ in Masterplots II: Drama, ed. Frank N. Magill (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1989), pp. 1745-1750.

—’Roman Ingarden’ in Critical Survey of Literary Theories, ed. Frank N. Magill (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1988), pp. 726-730.

—’Witold Gombrowicz’ in Critical Survey of Literary Theories, ed. Frank N. Magill (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1988), pp. 726-730.

—’The Diary of Witold Gombrowicz’ in Masterplots II: Nonfiction, ed. Frank N. Magill (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1988), pp. 367-372.

—’The Land of Ulro (Miłosz)’ in Masterplots II: Nonfiction, ed. Frank N. Magill (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1988), pp. 792-797.