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Karolina Zapal

Karolina Zapal

September 7, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Karolina Zapal is an itinerant poet, essayist, translator, and author of two books: Notes for Mid-Birth (Inside the Castle, 2019) and Polalka (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018). As an immigrant and activist writer, she writes frequently about her native Poland, languages, borders, and women’s rights. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Inverted Syntax, Tupelo Quarterly, The Seventh Wave, and others. She works as […]

Filed Under: Contributors 102, Issue 102 Tagged With: Karolina Zapal

Karolina Zapal: Good and Tired

September 7, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

This isn’t the I love you I want from you, nor the I love you you want from my mother. This isn’t the obligatory I love you too, like the refrain of a dead-end street, though surely there was a sign warning you near the distraction of a wooden swing’s yaw. This isn’t the I […]

Filed Under: Issue 102, Poetry, Poetry 102 Tagged With: Karolina Zapal

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