he Faculty of English and the City of Poznań invite everyone to an open lecture by Prof. Forrest Gander entitled “An Ecology of Intimacies: On Lichens & Eros”, which will take place on October 26 (Thursday) at 5:45 p.m. in Aula at Collegium Heliodori Święcicki (ul. Grunwaldzka 6).
Prof. Forrest Gander, born in the Mojave Desert, lives in California. A translator/writer with degrees in geology and literature, he’s received the Pulitzer Prize, Best Translated Book Award, and fellowships from the Library of Congress, Guggenheim, and US Artists Foundations. His book Twice Alive, translated into Polish by Julia Fiedorczuk, focuses on human and ecological intimacies. In 2024, New Directions will bring out his long poem on the desert, Mojave Ghost.
The meeting is co-financed by the City of Poznań.
You can learn more at: www.poznan.pl/studia