BIO
Born in 1960 in Warsaw; son of the sociologist and town planner Zygmunt Pióro, and the English philologist Maria. He spent his childhood together with his family in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where he also attended primary school. He moved to Poland in 1969. He attended the Nicolaus Copernicus Grammar School No. XXXIII in Warsaw, completing his advanced secondary education in 1978. He then studied English philology at the University of Warsaw (UW). In the third year of his studies, he was granted a sabbatical by the dean and travelled the United States to continue his studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. In 1984, he graduated with a BA. He started writing poetry in 1990, making his debut in 1992 with poems published jointly with Kuba Kozioł and Andrzej Sosnowski in the volume Dom bez kantów (House without Angles; published in Chicago). As well as writing poetry, he also produced translations of British and US poetry, while also translating contemporary Polish author's works into English. He was a doctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, defending his doctoral thesis on the work of James Joyce and Ezra Pound in 1993. He was supervised by Prof. John Bishop. He then worked as a lecturer in US-American literature at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas until 1997. He returned to Poland in 1997 and worked as director of the translation section at the State Publishing Institute (Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy). In 2001, he was appointed lecturer at the Department of American Literature at the Institute of English Studies at UW. He published articles on US-American literature, mainly the works of Frank O'Hara, in journals including "Acta Philologica" (2007, 2010, and 2012) and the "Polish Journal of American Studies" (2010, 2011, and 2013). His poems, translations, columns and articles appeared in journals and publications including "Odra” (intermittently 1992-2004) "Kresy" (1993-94, 1996-99, and 2001-02), "Literatura na Świecie" (1994-2012 and 2015-17), "Res Publica Nowa" (1994-98 and 2001-04), "Twórczość" (1995-97, 2001, 2006, 2009, 2010, and 2014; including from 1994 to 2001 the regular column Stany Zjednoczone [United States]), and "Studium" (1999-2001 and 2004-05). He joined the Polish Writers' Association (SPP) in 1998 and the Polish PEN Club in 1999, serving a secretary of the board from 1999 to 2000. Between 2002 and 2003, he was editor-in-chief of the arts and culture periodical "Dwukropek". He also had an interest in food and wine, acting as a culinary consultant for Warsaw restaurants. He published culinary columns in the weekly "Przekrój" between 2000 and 2005, and then in the women's monthly "Pani". In 2007, he joined the editorial board of the wine magazine "Wino", where he also published columns on food and drink. He was awarded a habilitation degree from UW in 2015 for his study Frank O’Hara a schyłek modernizmu (Frank O'Hara and Late Modernism). He lives in Warsaw.
Twórczość
1. Dom bez kantów. [Wiersze; autorzy:] T. Pióro, A. Sosnowski, K. Kozioł. Chicago: The Movable Feast Press 1992, 56 s. Wyd. 2 [zmienione; autorzy:] T. Pióro, Fantomas, [A] Sosnowski. [Legnica: Centrum Sztuki – Teatr Dramatyczny 1998, 36 s. Fort Legnicat. 2.
2. Okęcie. [Wiersze]. Red. i wybór wierszy.: K. Karasek. Warszawa: Przedświt 1993, 44 s. Biblioteka Poetycka Przedświtu,, t. 7.
3. Wiersze okolicznościowe. Lublin: Stowarzyszenie Literackie „Kresy” 1997, 55 s. Biblioteka Kresów, t. 11. Seria Poetycka.
4. Piuro podróży Kasablanca. [Wiersze]. Legnica: Centrum Sztuki – Teatr Dramatyczny1998, 16 s. Barbarzyńcy i Nie.
5. Syntetyczność. [Wiersze]. Legnica: Centrum Sztuki – Teatr Dramatyczny 1998, 22 s. Barbarzyńcy i Nie, 9.
6. Infinite neighbourhood. [Wybór wierszy]. Cambridge: Equipage 2000, 26 s.
Zawartość
7. Wola i ochota [Wiersze]. Legnica: Biuro Literackie Port Legnica 2000, 38 s.
8. Pieśni miłosne. [Wiersze]. Wrocław: Biuro Literackie 2004, 45 s. Więcej Poezji, t. 6.
9. Czterdzieści cztery przyjemności. [Przepisy kulinarne]. Warszawa: Bonobo 2005, 101 s.
10. Warszawa. [Album]. Teksty: T. Pióro, A. Sosnowski. Fotografie: M. Atkins. Warszawa: WIG-Press 2005, 202 s.
11. Asortyment. [Wybór wierszy]. Poznań.: Wojewódzka Biblioteka Publiczna i Centrum Animacji Kultury 2008, 156 s. Biblioteka Poezji Współczesnej, t. 3.
12. Abecadło. [Wiersze]. Wrocław: Biuro Literackie 2009, 36 s.
13. O dwa kroki stąd. [Wiersze zebrane]. Wrocław: Biuro Literackie 2011, 208 s. Dożynki, t. 7.
14. Frank O’Hara and the ends of modernism. Warszawa: University of Warsaw. Institute of English Studies 2013, 244 s.
Przekłady
15. Powązki. [Wiersze]. Wrocław: Biuro Literackie 2015, 40 s. Poezje – Biuro Literackie,118.
Nagrody
16. Funtime, Endtime. Reading Frank O'Hara. [Monografia]. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang 2017, 142 s.
17. Szkice o sztuce przekładu i sztuce czytania. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego 2019, 229 s.
Zawartość
18. Połać i szum. [Wybór wierszy]. Warszawa: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy 2021, 193 s.
Zawartość
Artykuły w czasopismach i książkach zbiorowych, m.in.
Przekłady tekstów w antologiach zagranicznych
angielski
bułgarski
hiszpański
niemiecki
serbski
słoweński
Przekłady
Inne formy wydań
Inne formy wydań
Prace redakcyjne
Omówienia i recenzje
• Ankieta dl IBL PAN 2013, 2024.
Wywiady
Ogólne
Artykuły
Zob. też Twórczość poz. ↑.