Mira Kuś (born 1948 in Gorlice, Poland) is a contemporary

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. She lives in

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and is a journalist and member of the Polish Writers Association.

Works

She graduated in

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and she often writes science articles for the press. Translations of some of her poems have appeared in foreign newspapers and magazines in

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etc. including ''

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'' and ''

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''. ;Poetry books * ''Wiersze'' (

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, 1978) * ''Gdzieś jest ta oaza'' (Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 1981) * ''Natura daje mi tajemne znaki'' (Warszawa 1988) * ''Rajski pejzaż (Baran i Suszczyński'', Kraków 1995) * ''Przekłady z zieleni'' (Plus, Kraków 2001) * ''O, niebotyczna góro garów'' (Kraków 2004) * ''Miedzy tym a tamtym brzegiem'' (Wyd. Collegium Columbinum, Kraków 2010) * ''Zioła i amaranty. Wybór wierszy'' (Wyd. Księgarnia Akademicka, 2012) * ''Beneath an Avalanche of Waking'' (chapbook of ''Mid-American Review'', volume XXXI, Number 2, ISSN 0747-8895, 2011) * ''Żywi z Vistula River czyli Epitafia dla Przyjaciół, Znajomych, Znanych'' (Wyd. Efemeryczna Misja Kosmiczna Art eMKa, Kraków 2016) * ''Zagubione słowa'' (Wyd. Efemeryczna Misja Kosmiczna Art eMKa, Kraków 2017) * ''ZZa wiśniowych zasieków'' (Wyd. Efemeryczna Misja Kosmiczna Art eMKa, Kraków 2019) ;Anthologies * ''Sercem pisane. Wybór wierszy''. Biblioteczka repertuarowa miesięcznika "Kultura i Ty", Warszawa 1978 * ''Drugi Krakowski Almanach Młodych'', WL, Kraków, 1980 * ''Poeta jest jak dziecko'', MAW, Warszawa 1987 * ''Wieczór jednego wiersza poetów krakowskich'', Kościół oo. Karmelitów Na Piasku, wtorek 18. października 1988; IX Tydzień Kultury Chrześcijańskiej w Krakowie; wyd. Wydział Duszpasterstwa Kurii Metropolitalnej, Kraków 1988 * ''Od Staffa do Wojaczka Poezja polska 1939-1988'', antologia, Bohdan Drozdowski i Bohdan Urbankowski, Wydawnictwo Lódzkie, Lódź 1991 * ''Shifting boarders'', Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey 1993 * ''W imię miłości...'' antologia wierszy miłosnych poetek polskich (Oficyna Wydawniczo-Poligraficzna "Adam", Warszawa 1995) * ''Ambers aglow'', Host Publications, Inc, Austin, Texas 1996 * ''Snuć miłość. Antologia polskiej liryki miłosnej od XV do XX w.'', redakcja Włodzimierza Boleckiego, Świat Książki,Warszawa 1997 * ''Das Unsichtbare lieben'', Kirsten Gutge Verlag, Koln 1998 * ''Poezja i gwiazdy'', SPP Oddział Kraków, Plus, Kraków, corocznie od 1995 do 2008 * ''Krynickie Jesienie Literackie'' antologia poetycka pod red. Gabrieli Matuszek, Kraków 2007 * w:''Plamak, bułgarska antologia poetów polskich'', Sofia 2008 * ''Poezija jednannja. Wirszi z Krakowa'', Lwów, 2008 * ''Sdiełano w Polsze, wiek XX, pieriewody Andrieja Baziliewskogo'', Moskwa 2009 * ''A csend visszhangjai'', Cseby Geza, Keszthely 2010 ;Textbooks * w: ''Słońce na stole'', textbook for primary school (for the third classes, The Polish Language) Katowice She has also published

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s for children in school

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s among others. She has won several competitions and awards.

External links

Mira Kuś' website

Polish bibliography
Polish women poets 1948 births Living people {{Poland-poet-stub