Georgia Scott and Wolfgang Gortschacher

Monday, July 21st, 2003

An unforgettable "Baltic Evening". Wolfgang Gortschacher, with a help of Ken Nash read from the Anthology of Contemporary Lithuaninan Poetry he edited and published lately. Georgia Scott brought us some sand from the beaches of Gdansk and much fun!

Georgia Scott is the author of "The Good Wife" (Poetry Salzburg Press 2002), and the forthcoming, "Cakes with Bathsheba" (July, 2003, U.S.). Ms. Scott gave one of her first poetry readings at a 1980's banned meeting of Solidarity (committee of striking Polish shipworkers, Gdansk, under Lech Walesa). Since then she has read her work throughout Europe and the US, including the Encontro International de Poetas in Coimbra, Portugal and last year's International Poetry Festival in Olomouc, Czech Republic (photo). Her work has been translated into six languages. She has worked as a reporter, human rights activist and on radio. She is now Associate Professor of English at University of Gdansk in Poland. Wolfgang Gortschacher is the publisher of Poetry Salzburg, Vienna. With co-editor, Laima Sruoginis, he recently brought out, "Raw Amber: An Anthology of Contemporary Lithuanian Poetry", this year's Frankfurt Book Fair official Lithuanian entry.