Coal Miner's Daughter: An Interview with Ewa Parma

Abstract

Poet Ewa Parma (b. 1961, Katowice, Poland) is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Kobiety i waki (2013; Women and dragonflies), and her poems have appeared in English translation in the Los Angeles Review, Mr. Cogito, Artful Dodge, International Poetry Review, and Connecticut River Review. She has also published poems, essays, and translations of American poetry in numerous Polish journals. Here she talks about the complexities of class identity in her home country, the role of reading in her life, and her university studies in English and American literature.