Three poetry events: a fifth year anniversary of the Salon of Poetry, a lecture “The Ghost of Shakespeare in Szymborska” and a poetry reading by Dr. Anna Frajlich from Columbia University stirred Seattle audiences to contemplate political and existential questions of past and present.

A powerful lecture, an animated documentary and survivors personal accounts brought the Seattle community to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Stalin’s purges of innocent Polish citizens into Siberia and Kazakhstan.