POET
Cynthia Haven
BIOGRAPHY
Cynthia Haven has written for the Times Literary Supplement, the Washington Post Book World, the Los Angeles Times Book Review and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is a 2007-08 Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow with Vienna's Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen. Her Czeslaw Milosz: Conversations was published in 2006; Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw Milosz is forthcoming.
ARTICLES BY CYNTHIA HAVEN
“Time Took My Leafy Hours Away”
Stanley Kunitz, former U.S. poet laureate and mentor to generations of poets, dies.
Kitchen Ants and Everyday Epiphanies
For Jane Hirshfield, every action is a form of judgment.
Risk, Try, Revise, Erase
Polish poet Adam Zagajewski on his growing fame, his past as a political activist, and his desire to see the world as if from outer space.
The Doubter and the Saint
At a fateful moment, Czeslaw Miłosz crossed paths with a controversial Polish priest, later martyred in World War II. The little-known encounter and its aftermath illuminate the Nobel laureate’s life and work.
