Timeless, dreamy, elusive, mystical, mythical, philosophical and highly experimental, DIRGE is prose poetry as a ballet for 13 dancers performing to a live audience. Each line a fresh out-of-the-box, unique head expanding roller coaster ride.
Krysia Jopek earned her Bachelor's Degree and Master's Degree in English from the University of Connecticut, her Master's of Philosophy in Poetics and Twentieth-Century American Poetry from the City University of New York Graduate Center, and a Master's of Fine Arts in Literary Fiction from Albertus Magnus.Her father's family survived deportation from Poland to Siberia by Stalin in 1940 and remained Displaced Persons until 1952, which is the subject of her novel, MAPS AND SHADOWS (Aquila Polonica, 2010), recipient of a Silver Benjamin Franklin Award in Historical Fiction. She is also the maternal granddaughter of Polish immigrants.Her poems have appeared in BlazeVox, Redactions, The Wallace Stevens Journal, and Columbia Poetry Review, among other journals. In 2017 she founded Diaphanous Micro, an e- journal of literary and visual art. She currently resides in Connecticut.
