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This one honors Jan Polkowski.
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"John Casimir Polkowski (b. 10 January 1953 in Bierutow) - Polish poet, journalist, activist of the Solidarity Trade Union.
Biography
He graduated from High School in Nowa Huta. Since 1972 he studied Polish philology at the Jagiellonian University.
As a poet, he made ??his debut with the publication of his works in 1978 in the quarterly "record" in the same year founded the outgoing samizdat magazine "Signal". In the period 1983-1990 he was editor of the quarterly "Ark" from 1990 - "Time of Krakow".
He was active in the Student Committee of "Solidarity", as well as in Krakow Oficyna Student. As an activist of the democratic opposition and independent publisher interned during martial law.
From June 1, 1992 from June 9, 1992 undersecretary of state in the URM, a spokesman for the government of Jan Olszewski [1]; Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Polish Information Agency, in 1993, co-organizer of the Electoral Committee "Governing Krakow", then the association of that name and its president for the next few years. In 1996 chairman of the board and the president of the Development Agency of the City of Krakow from 1996 to 2003 the owner of a public relations firm. In 1997, a spokesman for the National Electoral Staff of the ROP, 1998-1999 Adviser to the President of the Committee for European Integration, the head of UKIE 2003-2004 board member of Malopolska Regional Development Agency SA in Cracow, 2006-2007 representative of the board, chief. The development of the Polish Mint SA in Warsaw, 2007-2008 Director of the Office of the Board and Corporate Affairs TVP SA in Warsaw, representative of the management board. cooperation with artistic circles. He currently serves as editor of the site Portalfilmowy.pl.
Since 2010 the Secretary General of the National Chamber of Audiovisual Producers.
He was President of the Foundation Smolensk in 2010, responsible for supporting the implementation and dissemination of a feature film with the working title of Smolensk.
Married to Anna, have four children (two sons and two daughters). His son Tadeusz "Tadek" Polkowski is a rapper (a member of the hip-hop Company).
Publications
Volumes of poetry
This is not poetry (1980)
Breathe (1981)
Fire (1983)
Poems 1977-1984 (1986)
Trees (1987)
Elegies of Tymowskich Mountains and other poems (1990)
Elegies of Tymowskich Mountains, 1987-1989 (2008)
Cantus (2009)
Shadow (2010)
Voices (2012)
Novels
Traces of blood (2013)"