Trupa Trupa's video for Looking For #indie #alternative #rock #music 🎧 @trupatrupa.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH3m...

Here is my new essay in the writers’ collective @flaminghydra.com. In today’s issue, you’ll also find a new essay by @supremenothing.myatproto.social. My essay is about my grandfather Leon, his three-wheeled bike, and krówki. flaminghydra.com/margarine/

TODAY: @g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social on a time of mourning. "We were greeted by a jovial worker from the funeral home. He showed us different people, different bodies, and turned it into a kind of guessing game: was this him or not?" flaminghydra.com/issue-597/#m...

A wild, very personal remembrance from @g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social of his late grandfather in Poland flaminghydra.com/issue-597/

Amelia Halszka used “Looking for” in her diploma project at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Good luck, Amelia.

Whenever I see four guys swimming in a lake, I just assume they're Slint. This has led to some awkward misunderstandings, but those German tourists were super nice about it and agreed to sign my copy of Spiderland anyway.

Early soundcheck at 7:00 in the Bieszczady mountains. Beautiful morning. See you tonight at Zew się Budzi Festival. We play at 21:25 on the Polish Radio Three stage. The show will also air later on the same station.

Franz Kafka gig alert! #Kołobrzeg

What does Robert Musil’s "The Man Without Qualities" have to do with a cage set up in front of the White House for Donald Trump’s birthday? That is the subject of my latest essay for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social, one of the world’s leading platforms for opinion and analysis. shorturl.at/wpsvU

Hip hip hooray — today is publication day for my new book: my third with the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, translated by the wonderful Simona Klemenčič. It includes poems written during my ongoing Yale residency. P.S. New books in France, the US & Germany this autumn.

stay back! #łeba

It's a treat, this book. I should know, I talked to Zach about it. In public, even.

Here is one more video recap of our Washington cemetery event, under the patronage of George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo. See you in September. The author of this video recap is Roman Kostovski from Plamen Press.

Pol'and'Rock Festival 🖤

This rabbit, this hamster, and this parakeet were buried long ago in “my” Gdańsk forest. My new essay “Murderers on Vacation,” about them, Wilhelm II, and PJ Harvey, is in the latest @flaminghydra.com with Arwa Mahdawi.

A very brilliant new contributor

ALSO TODAY: Grzegorz Kwiatkowski on encounters with death, in the woods and elsewhere. “I had founded a kind of society. Not a Dead Poets Society, but a society of oversensitive six-year-olds who wanted to repair what the evil world had done.” flaminghydra.com/murderers-on...

Thank you so much for the invitation to speak at the session of the Senate of the Republic of Poland, where I talked about the international artistic potential of our region. Photo: Konrad Kędzior #ustawametropolitalna

At the TT studio work is underway on the Yale / Fortunoff project. Together with Aleks Makowski we created a film based on Fortunoff Archive testimonies. Now the two of us are working on the musical layer to be performed live during screenings. More to come in many places worldwide.

The George Mason University team is truly the best team. Thank you so much for having me. #scholarinresidence

Thanks not only to the panelists, but also to the truly wonderful audience of the 3rd edition of “What About Exclusion?” at the University of Oxford 🖤 Photo: Olga Tuleja

fotoreport: trupa trupa a chorobopop ve vrátnici ov-kluby.net/report.php?r... rožnovskopodradhošťský klub vrátnice hostil posledního dubna skvělou a věhlasnou polskou formaci trupa trupa. ještě před nimi nažhavil publikum oblíbený domácí band chorobopop. [30.04.2026 / rožnov pod radhoštěm, vrátnice]

1/3 I’m tired but overjoyed after another edition of What about exclusion? at the University of Oxford. This is already the 6th event I have co-organized at this university - and the next edition is coming this autumn!

1/2 Behind me: the University of Oxford. Which means I am inviting you to the next edition of the series I curate, “What About Exclusion?” Tomorrow’s event will focus on exclusion in the media space.

Toruń, Kraków - these shows hit us hard. And that’s why we need to come back as soon as possible 🖤 Photos: Maciej Olejniczak, Cyprian Buś

The funeral entertainment orchestra performs tomorrow in Toruń and the day after tomorrow in Kraków 🖤 Photo: Adam Pluciński

Greatest singer-songwriter album of the twenty-first century

A few more photos from our Washington cemetery event. The event took place on the day of the shooting and served as a kind of antithesis to the language of polarization and violence. Photos: Leeya Mehta

1/2 I’m delighted, truly delighted, to invite you to our next event at the University of Oxford. This time, we’ll be discussing exclusion in the media space, and we have invited four outstanding guests to join the debate:

All we need is Cieszyn 🖤 Photos: Rafał Soliński, Grzegorz Krzysztofik, Wojtek Sieniewicz

In the lineup of the 10th anniversary edition of Washington’s The Cheuse Center festival were Colm Tóibín, Malte Herwig, and yours truly. Thank you for these moments, and I know I am repeating myself, but it was truly, truly wunderbar. Photos: Aster Equine Photography, Klara Kalu

The calm before the storm. Yesterday was truly wunderbar. Thank you for filling the theatre to the brim. See you tonight in Rožnov, Czech Republic. #soundcheck

Today, in this beautiful Lynchian space, our concert will open the Film on the Border festival.

1/5 My great, great dream came true: organizing an event that was a journey through two Washington cemeteries, Mt. Zion Female Union Band Society and Oak Hill, ending in the Oak Hill chapel, with readings of poems and essays there.

Working with Donald Russell and Soojung Paek is truly, truly wonderful + some of the results of this cooperation are already visible on these large sheets of notes. #georgemasonuniversity

This residence is exceptional in many ways, but what makes it truly special most of all is sharing it with Marta, Józek, and Franek.

Rest in peace, Gregg Foreman. You will be missed.

Live in The North? Fed up with the Friday night Gogglebox? Then drag yourself down to arguably the UKs best venue and get down to the Sounds…. Or summat! 😘 Tickets here… [email protected] 💃🏼 🕺🏼 💥

Happy b-day, Iggy!

Residence in Washington D.C. - start time.

1/4 Next week, I’d like to invite you to George Mason University for the event “Let’s Talk About Exclusion - Mason Scholars in Conversation with Grzegorz Kwiatkowski.”

Hip hip hooray! I’ve just found out that my essay for World Literature Today is their most-read piece in 2026 (so far). Just a reminder: it’s an essay about Franz Kafka, Agnieszka Holland, but also about my beloved, much-missed shoes. You can read it here: worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/january...

Clear, globally relevant thoughts from Gdańsk on living in the bad times. The debut of poet and musician Grzegorz Kwiatkowski (@g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social) at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/cats-and-mice/

1/4 This is my Washington, D.C. gig alert. I’ll be spending next week in Washington and Fairfax as part of a residency at George Mason University and the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center.

amazing words from @g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social: "Denunciation can be necessary ... But it is also easy. It is easy to denounce and then feel cleansed. It is harder to examine the smaller pleasures that gather around denunciation: pride, vindication, relief, the sense of standing above the fallen."

TODAY: NEWEST Hydra Grzegorz Kwiatkowski. “The cat does what the cat does. The harder question is what happens around it. How long can people watch before horror becomes routine? How long before outrage hardens into language, repetition, posture?” flaminghydra.com/cats-and-mice/

Welcoming to @flaminghydra.com a new contributor I've long admired: poet, activist and musician Grzegorz Kwiatkowski @g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social His debut piece starts out in Gdańsk, ends up in your own heart flaminghydra.com/issue-542/