night truck driver
49 poems
Advance galleys to Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, NPR; Review and feature article campaign to 40-50 publications, including poetry, Slavic/Eastern European, mainstream; Collaborate with Polish Cultural Institute on US book tour to New York, Boston, midwest; Featured title at AWP, Boston Book Fair, Brooklyn Book Festival, ALTA; Eblasts to creative writing, Slavic/Eastern European Studies departments; Social media campaign on FaceBook and Twitter; Potential core text for World Literature, Comparative Literature, Creative Writing courses.
Marcin Świetlicki (born 1961, Lublin) is a poet, crime writer and musician who has published twelve poetry collections, and writes most of the lyrics for two rock bands he regularly performs with. He co-edited (with Marcin Baran and Marcin Sendecki) the poetry anthology Długie pożegnanie. Tribute to Raymond Chandler (The Long Goodbye. Tribute to Raymond Chandler). He has received several major awards, including the 1996 Kościelski Foundation Prize, the Silesius Wroclaw Poetic Award (2012) and the Lublin Poetical Stone Award (2014), for lifetime achievement.
