Wednesday, April 15, 2026
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182, USA

Saturday, April 18, 2026
New Orleans Poetry Festival
2372 St. Claude Ave
New Orleans, LA 70117, USA

Wednesday, May 20, 2026
University of Washington
1410 NE Campus Parkway
Seattle, WA 98195, USA

Translator Piotr Florczyk is promoting Hemorrhages & Squirrels (Polish: Krwotoki i wiewiórki), a volume of prose poems by Jakub Kornhauser published last September by Diálogos in April and May in the U.S..

Hemorrhages & Squirrels is a collection of prose poems by one of Poland’s rising literary stars, Jakub Kornhauser, translated into English by Piotr Florczyk. While its subjects and themes seem arbitrary, the associative aspect is foregrounded, and it’s best not to try to figure things out. This is also true of the volume’s intertextual roots, as the poems feature various props lifted from the work of Adam Zagajewski and Julian Kornhauser (the poet’s father). This work is meant to feel sudden and fleeting, chaotic, even, but also thrilling, especially since reading a Jakub Kornhauser poem will lead you to begin in one place and end up someplace else.

The publication is supported by the Polish Cultural Institute New York. The book is available for purchase.

Jakub Kornhauser is a Polish poet, essayist, translator, editor, literary scholar, co-founder and employee of the Centre for Avant-Garde Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He has published five volumes of prose poetry (he received the Wisława Szymborska Award 2016 for Drożdżownia [The Yeast Factory]), several monographs on the European avant-gardes, as well as books translated from French, Romanian, and Serbian (including works by Henri Michaux, Gherasim Luca, Gellu Naum and Miroljub Todorović). He recently published a collection of bicycle essays entitled Premie górskie najwyższej kategorii [Mountain Climbs Hors Catégorie] (2020), which earned him the Znaczenia Award and Gdynia Literary Prize nomination. He lives in Kraków, Poland.

Piotr Florczyk is the author, translator, or editor of some two dozen books in English and in Polish. His work has been recognized with, among others, the 2016 Found in Translation Award, the 2017 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, the 2021 Translation Choice selection by UK’s Poetry Book Society, nominations for ASEEES and PEN Club awards. He teaches global literary studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, and lives with his wife and their two children in Los Angeles. For more info about him and his work, please visit his web site.