Poet · Essayist · Scholar
Anna Frajlich
Polish-American poet and essayist, in New York since 1970. Senior Lecturer Emerita in the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University, where she taught Polish language and literature for more than three decades.
Anna Frajlich is a poet who was banished from Poland after the 1968 anti-Semitic campaign and found her own poetic haven in New York, but still returns to the places from her past. Not only Szczecin, where she had spent her youth, but also Warsaw, and even Lviv, which she remembers through the filter of her parents’ memories. It is a lost paradise, but sometimes spiced with bitter rejection and the condemnation to exile. An environment untouched by any ideology, Lviv remains for her the place of Polish poetry, which she engages in a continuous dialogue with and which she enriches with her own voice.
— Józef Wróbel, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
News, Reviews & Videos
In World Literature Today essay "The Colors of Poetry: Anna Frajlich’s Life Work"
Zapraszamy na spotkania z Anną Frajlich w pażdzierniku 2025 w Polsce. (You are invited to readings with Anna Frajlich in October 2025 in Poland)
The latest book by Anna Frajlich and Jacek Zurek “Szklany sufit języka” trzynaście rozmów („Glass ceiling of language” thirteen conversations) published in Polish by Austeria, Kraków
Relacja ze spotkania z Anną Frajlich na Uniwersytecie Szczecinskim (October 3,2024) in Polish
Anna Frajlich lecture in English “The Ghost of Shakespeare in Wisława Szymborska” in New York University, The Jordan Center on October 4, 2023
New book by Anna Frajlich “szymborska poeta poetów” Essays, remembrance, correspondence, photos and more. Publisher, Forma, Szczecin Poland
Podcast interview with Anna Frajlich by Hanna Giza in Warsaw (wywiad przeprowadzony po Polsku)
Special issue "The Polish Review," Writing Polish in America, The Case of Anna Frajlich with Guest Editor Ronald Meyer. (10 assays about AF writing and her Israel poems). Vol 67, No.1, 2022. Published by Polish Institute of Art and Sciences of America (PIASA)
Earlier announcements (16)
Interview with Ronald Meyer about the special issue
Book Talk. Imie Ojcalm'ia Bat'ka (The Name of the Father) by Anna Frajlich, trans. Vasyl Makhno | The Harriman Institute, Columbia University
Radio Sefarad English Corner interview with Anna Frajlich by Linda Jimenez
Anna Frajlich’s , edited by Ronald Meyer (Academic Studies Press, 2020) awarded the Polish American Historical Association’s at their annual convention in January 2022
The Ghost of Shakespeare: Collected EssaysOskar Halecki Prize
Interview with Anna Frajlich (September 16, 2021) in Polish kanał FORMY na YouTubie
Anna Frajlich reading her poems in Polish. kanał FORMY na YouTubie
YouTube, The Ghost of Shakespeare. A conversation Anna Frajlich & Ross Ufberg
Virtual Book Launch Interview (The Ghost of Shakespeare) on January 27, 2021
W pośpiechu rzeka płynie (Like a rushing river) by Anna Frajlich - the Winter 2021 issue of World Literature Today
Cynthia Haven (December 12th, 2020) on Anna Frajlich's book “The Ghost of Shakespeare”
Video Interview (August 27, 2020) - dedicated to her latest poetry book (in Polish)
NEW BOOK - The Ghost of Shakespeare: Collected Essays: ! Anna Frajlich speaks about her new book: Interview on Radio 2, Warsaw, 5/26/2020 (in Polish)
Amazing review on monograph of Anna Frajlich
Poems by Anna Frajlich appear in the Czech translation literary monthly Plav (; ). The translator is Hanele Palkova.,
NEW BOOK - publishing in March 2020 (Polish)
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