Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Adam Lizakowski @ CPL


Poetry Reading by Adam Lizakowski
Sat. October 24, 2009
3:00 pm

Archer Heights 5055 S. Archer Avenue60632

Adam Lizakowski, one of the best Polish - American poets, will present his poems.


Adam Lizakowski is a renowned Polish-American poet, novelist, essayist. His works have been reviewed by many well-know writers and literary critics including the Polish Nobel Prize Winner for Literatury Czeslaw Milosz. Mamy critics in Poland consider him to be one of the best known Polish poets living abroad. Adam Lizakowski has lived in the United States since he immigrated from Poland in 1981. He is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, the most recent being Chicago: City of Belief which was chosen by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Polish Division as the 2008 book of the year.