Kimberly Slover
Director, College Communications
(603) 526-3647

NEW LONDON, N.H. Ewa Chrusciel is a poet, translator and most recently, a skier. In 2003, Studium published her first book of poems entitled Furkot. Her second book is forthcoming in Italy (2008-2009), and she is also working on her third book project entitled A Life.
The reading will take place Monday, Feb. 12 at 4:00 p.m. in the Cleveland, Colby, Colgate Archives, Susan Colgate Cleveland Library/Learning Center. Admission is free and open to the public.
Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Topos, Pracownia, Zeszyty Literackie, Studium and an anthology in Poland; ClanDestino and Il Giornale in Italy and The Spoon River Review, The Pebble Lake Review, Entelechy 7, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics: Sreetnotes, Pebble Lake Review, Mandorla, American Letters and Commentary, Canary and Rhino in the United States.
Chrusciel's translations have appeared in journals and anthologies. She holds a degree in English philology from Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and Ph.D. in contemporary poetics from Illinois State University. In her free time she likes to visit the zoo.
The Word by Word series is sponsored by the Colby-Sawyer College Department of Humanities. The events are free and open to the public.
Colby-Sawyer, founded in 1837, is a comprehensive liberal arts college located in the scenic Lake Sunapee Region of central New Hampshire. Students from 25 states and seven foreign countries learn in small classes through a select array of programs that integrate the liberal arts and sciences with pre-professional experience. Visit us on the World Wide Web at www.colby-sawyer.edu.
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