Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator.
 From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
 Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of which are collections of his poetry.
 His published work also includes critically acclaimed translations, including "The Inferno" of Dante Alighieri and "The Separate Notebooks" by Czesław Miłosz.
 He teaches at Boston University.
The Symphony No. 5 is a composition for baritone, mezzo-soprano, and orchestra by the American composer John Harbison.
 The work was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the conductor James Levine.
 It was given its world premiere in Boston on April 17, 2008 by the mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey, the baritone Nathan Gunn, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra directed by James Levine.
 The text of the piece is set to "Orpheus and Eurydice" by Czesław Miłosz, "Relic" by Louise Glück, and the "Sonnets to Orpheus" by Rainer Maria Rilke.
Czesław Miłosz ( ; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish poet, prose writer, translator and diplomat.
 His World War II-era sequence "The World" is a collection of twenty "naïve" poems.
 Following the war, he served as Polish cultural attaché in Paris and Washington, D.C., then in 1951 defected to the West.
 His nonfiction book "The Captive Mind" (1953) became a classic of anti-Stalinism.
 From 1961 to 1998 he was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley.
 He became a U.S. citizen in 1970.
 In 1978 he was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and in 1980 the Nobel Prize in Literature.
 In 1999 he was named a Puterbaugh Fellow.
 After the fall of the Iron Curtain, he divided his time between Berkeley, California, and Kraków, Poland.
Milosz Songs is a composition for soprano and orchestra by the American composer John Harbison.
 The work was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for the soprano Dawn Upshaw and is set to the poetry of the Polish writer Czesław Miłosz.
 It was given its world premiere in New York City on February 23, 2006 by Upshaw and the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Robert Spano.
Clare Cavanagh (born May 23, 1956) is an American literary critic, a Slavist, and a translator.
 She is the Frances Hooper Professor in the Arts and Humanities and Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University.
 An acclaimed translator of contemporary Polish poetry, she is currently under contract to write the authorized biography of Czesław Miłosz.
 She holds a B.A from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an M.A. and Ph.D from Harvard University (1978, 1981 and 1988 respectively).
 Before coming to Northwestern University, she taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
 Her work has been translated into Russian, Polish, Hungarian, French, Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese.
Susan Straight (born October 19, 1960) is an American writer.
 She was a National Book Award finalist for the novel "Highwire Moon" in 2001.
The Stars and the Roses is a three-movement composition for tenor solo and orchestra set to the poetry of Czesław Miłosz by the American composer Steven Stucky.
 The work was commissioned by the Berkeley Symphony, for which Stucky was then composer-in-residence.
 It was first performed on March 28, 2013 by the tenor Noah Stewart and the Berkeley Symphony under the conductor Joana Carneiro.
 The work was rewritten by Stucky in a chamber arrangement of the piece that premiered on October 18, 2013 by the Curtis 20/21 Contemporary Music Ensemble and tenor Roy Hage.
 The piece is dedicated to Stucky's wife Kristen.
Berkeley Poetry Review (BPR) is an American poetry journal published annually by the undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley since 1974.
 The journal has featured a wide array of poets and writers, such as Pablo Neruda, Czesław Miłosz, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Thom Gunn, Leslie Scalapino, and Galway Kinnell, among others.
Polish literature is the literary tradition of Poland.
 Most Polish literature has been written in the Polish language, though other languages used in Poland over the centuries have also contributed to Polish literary traditions, including Latin, Yiddish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, German and Esperanto.
 According to Czesław Miłosz, for centuries Polish literature focused more on drama and poetic self-expression than on fiction (dominant in the English speaking world).
 The reasons were manifold, but mostly rested on historical circumstances of the nation.
 Polish writers typically have had a more profound range of choices to motivate them to write, including historical cataclysms of extraordinary violence that swept Poland (as the crossroads of Europe); but also, Poland's own collective incongruities demanding adequate reaction from the writing communities of any given period.
The Captive Mind (Polish: Zniewolony umysł ) is a 1953 work of nonfiction by Polish writer, academic and Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, published in the English translation originally by Secker and Warburg.
 The work was written in Polish soon after the author received political asylum in Paris following his break with Poland's Communist government.
 It draws upon his experiences as an underground writer during World War II, and his position within the political and cultural elite of Poland in the immediate post-war years.
 The book attempts to explain both the intellectual allure of Stalinism and the temptation of collaboration with the Stalinist regime among intellectuals in post-war Central and Eastern Europe.
 Miłosz describes the book as having been written "under great inner conflict".

Question: Are Susan Straight and Czesław Miłosz both American writers?
Answer: no