Poet and Guggenheim Foundation President Edward Hirsch will be in dialog with Prof. Joanna Trzeciak Huss about his recently published memoir, My Childhood in Pieces: A Standup Comedy, A Skokie Elegy. Hirsch will be reading excerpts from the book, with a free-ranging discussion of Hirsch’s path to writing poetry and his longtime engagement with Polish poetry. Ewa Zadrzynska (Poetry Unites) will be screening her short film about Polish poet Ryszard Krynicki. The event is sponsored by the Chopin Theatre, Knopf Publishing Company and Polish Cultural Institute, New York.