(born 1958, Lowicz) is Professor of English at Lodz University and Warsaw University. He is a literary critic and translator for Literatura Na Swiecie< (a literary monthly devoted to European literature) and a literary critic as well for Tygodnik Powszeckny< (a Krakow-based weekly). He speaks five languages (Polish, French, German, Russian, and English) and has translated over 20 books, including Philip Roth's Deception and Patrimony; Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story, and Seamus Heaney's essays. In addition, he has published four books of poetry in Polish and written various essays on American and British poetry and on contemporary Polish literature. Mr. Jarniewicz is currently working on a book on contemporary poetry. During his stay in the United States, he would like to meet poets and literary critics whose work is especially interesting to him: Thom Gunn (San Francisco), Paul Muldoon (Princeton), Robert Pinsky and Derek Walcott (Boston), Marjorie Perloff (Stanford), and Helen Vendler (Harvard). He would also like to interview Philip Roth. Mr. Jarniewicz has an interest in contemporary art and hopes to visit the Museum of Modern Art at the Guggenheim Museum. The US Information Agency is providing Mr. Jarniewicz's grant to the IWP.