📚 Join us for a literary evening with award-winning Czech poet Petr Hruška and American writer and editor Michael Stein, based in the Czech Republic.
✍️ Bilingual reading and discussion
📍 T. G. Masaryk Czech School
📅 Wednesday, May 1, 2025
🕖 7:00 PM
🍷 Reception to follow
✅ Free and open to the public
📬 RSVP at
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Come for the poetry, stay for the wine. 🍷📖
PETR HRUŠKA is a poet and literary historian who lives in Ostrava, Czech Republic. With its social problems and environmental devastation, this industrial city, located above enormous reserves of black coal, has played a major role in Hruška’s poetics. His collections include Obývací nepokoje (Restless Living Rooms, 1995), Měsíce (Months, 1998), Vždycky se ty dveře zavíraly (The Door Always Used to Swing Shut, 2002), Auta vjíždějí do lodí (The Cars Drive into the Ships, 2007), Nevlastní (Stepson, 2017), and Nikde není řečeno (It Doesn’t Say Anywhere, 2019); his poetry has won a number of state and international awards, including the Czech State Award for Literature in recognition of his collection Darmata (To No Travail, 2012), and the Magnesia Litera, the most prestigious annual literary award in the Czech Republic, for his newest collection, Spatřil jsem svou tvář (I Caught Sight of My Face, 2022), an extended meditation on Magellan’s voyage around the world. He writes screenplays, publishes a literary magazine, co-organizes literary events and festivals, and participates in civic initiatives for environmental causes and the preservation of cultural monuments in his region. Hruška also writes short stories, columns, and essays, many of which are collected in Cave-In (2020). Hruška works at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, specializing in poetry from the twentieth century to the present, and is the author of scholarly articles and books on Czech poetry.
MICHAEL STEIN is a writer and editor based in the Czech Republic. He is an editor at Karolinum Press (Charles University, Prague) and writes for and edits at Budapest-based magazine The Continental. His website, Literalab, reports on Central European writing and he has also written for literary journals such as Transitions, Asymptote and The Review of Contemporary Fiction. He is an editor at the Prague-based journal B O D Y and runs its Saturday European Fiction series. His own fiction has been published in The Missing Slate, Panel and McSweeney's, among other magazines.
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