Name: An Author Talk with Cecilia Woloch: Poetry Readings and Writing Workshop
Start: 2026-06-13T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Plac Małachowskiego 3, 00-916 Warsaw, Poland

An Author Talk with Cecilia Woloch: Poetry Readings and Writing Workshop

Writing Ourselves Back Into the Story of the World: Restoring Personal Narratives
An author talk with Cecilia Woloch, featuring poetry readings and writing workshop elements
📅 13.06 Saturday, 5 PM
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duration: 1,5 hours
led by: Cecilia Woloch and Julia Stachura
The talk explores the process of researching and reclaiming personal narratives shaped by historical erasure, family secrecy, and intergenerational trauma. Through poetry and reflection, the speaker will examine how identity can be reconstructed across fragmented histories and cultural borders.
The presentation will feature readings from Cecilia Woloch’s published works, including “Tsigan” and “Carpathia”, and will conclude with a generative writing exercise inviting participants to engage with their own personal histories. Participants will also have the opportunity to share their writing and take part in an open discussion.
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Cecilia Woloch – an author of eight collections of poems and a novel. Her collections of poems include “Sacrifice”, a Book Sense 76 Selection in 2001; “Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem”, which has been given multi-disciplinary presentations across the U.S. and Europe; “Late”, for which she was named Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry in 2004; “Narcissus”, winner of the Tupelo Press Snowbound Prize in 2006; “Carpathia”, a finalist for the Milton Kessler Award in 2010; “Earth”, winner of the 2015 Two Sylvias Press chapbook prize, and “LABOR: The Testimony of Ted Gall”, published by Accents Publishing in 2024. Her honors include grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, CEC/Arts Link International, a Pushcart Prize, and inclusion in the Best American Poetry series. Her work has been translated and published in French, German, Polish, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Romanes and Spanish. Born in Pennsylvania and raised there and in rural Kentucky, she’s traveled the world as a teacher and writer. In 2026, she is a Fulbright Fellow at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. When she’s not traveling, she lives in Los Angeles.
Julia Stchura – graduate student of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, art historian and PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of Humanities of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Staff member of the Audiovisual Archive at the Faculty of Art Studies of the same university. She is currently preparing a doctoral dissertation devoted to contemporary African American photography. Her research interests include the theory and history of photography, modern art, and the methodology of art history.
photo: Cecilia Woloch