Valzhyna Mort Reads Victoria Amelina and Wisawa Szymborska

Published: July 24, 2024, 8 p.m.

Valzhyna Mort joins Kevin Young to read \u201cTestimonies\u201d by Victoria Amelina, which Mort translated from the Ukrainian, and \u201cMap,\u201d by Wis\u0142awa Szymborska, which was translated, from the Polish, by Clare Cavanagh. Mort\u2019s collection \u201cMusic for the Dead and Resurrected\u201d won the 2021 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2022 UNT Rilke Prize. Her other honors include a 2021 Rome Prize in literature and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the Amy Clampitt Fund.