If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Piotr Sommer is a poet, essayist, and translator of Anglo-American poetry into Polish. He has published seven collections of his poems, two books of essays, and has translated John Ashbery, John Berryman, D. J. Enright, Seamus Heaney, Kenneth Koch, Robert Lowell, Derek Mahon, Frank O'Hara, and Charles Reznikoff. Sommer's most recent book of poems in translation is Continued (Wesleyan University Press, 2005). He is editor for Literatura na Swiecie, a magazine of international writing. He lives outside Warsaw.