November 11, 2026
5pm in the Judith E Wilson Drama Studio
Free and open to all
Sonia Nowacka is a poet and a literary critic; she teaches modern and contemporary Polish poetry at the University of Wrocław, Poland. Her first book, Saros, was published in 2024; offering a formally intricate narrative on the complexity and pervasiveness of fear and anxiety in the modern world, it was met with enthusiastic reception and immediately put Nowacka at the forefront of new developments in Polish poetry. Her second book, Campo del cielo, builds on Nowacka’s interest in complex, maximalist, yet partially narrative forms: it is a semi-documentarian book-length poem about the history of extractive economies and excessive wealth. Nowacka’s interest in the affective and the social is always rooted in deep historical research and desire for formal experimentation, which makes her one of the most interesting poets of her generation in Poland today.
