Music and Poetry | Joint presentation of DACAMERA and Inprint

2022-2023 Inprint Season Subscribers get 20% off on tickets to this event — check your email for the promo code.

Students and alumni of the UH Creative Writing Program are invited to attend the celebration as guests of Inprint — check the listserv for the promo code.

Sarah Rothenberg, piano; Sonia Wieder-Atherton
Special guests: Edward Hirsch, Rich Levy, and Lillie Robertson
Music of Bach, Chopin, Shostakovich, Schubert and Mahler

DACAMERA and Inprint join forces in this heartfelt celebration of the life and work of Polish poet Adam Zagajewski (1945-2021), prize-winning writer of international renown.  Through his insightful and quietly radiant poems, Zagajewski acquired loyal readers around the world; and as a member of the UH Creative Writing Program faculty, journeying to Houston from Paris and later Krakow each spring for 18 years, he leaves a vibrant legacy of friends, students, and colleagues across the U.S.

Pianist/DACAMERA Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg and cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton interweave the music that inspired many of Zagajewski’s poems with readings of his luminous poetry. Readers will include Rothenberg, celebrated poet and author Edward Hirsch, president of the Guggenheim Foundation; Rich Levy, executive director of Inprint; and community leader and friend, Lillie Robertson.  The publication in 2023 of Zagajewski’s last collection, True Life, offers us the occasion to discover new poems from this “indispensable” poet whose work celebrates “those rare moments when we catch a glimpse of the world from which all labels have been unpeeled…” (Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books). According to Mary Oliver, Zagajewski is ”the most pertinent, impressive, and meaningful poet of our time.”

Our partners at Brazos Bookstore are offering a 10% discount on True Life by Adam Zagajewski. To receive the discount, buy your copy at brazosbookstore.com from now through March 2 using the coupon code INPRINT.