Artur Płaczkiewicz is a lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto who specializes in modern Polish literature, especially twentieth-century poetry. Agnieszka Polakowska is a graduate student at the University of Toronto whose doctoral dissertation examines the intersections between theories of literary ethics and historically referential Polish literature. Olga Ponichtera is a graduate student at the University of Toronto who is completing her doctoral dissertation on Tadeusz Różewicz’s late poetry. Cover illustration by the late Jerzy Kołacz