21 Facts About Hedwig Gorski

Hedwig Gorski is a first-generation Polish American academic scholar and accomplished creative writer.

Hedwig Gorski's father joined the Polish Underground when aged fourteen, and later the United States Army, arriving with his family in the US in 1949 on the General Sturgis, which docked in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Hedwig Gorski's father did electrical work in Napoleonville before moving to New Jersey.

Hedwig Gorski is married to her second husband, composer D'Jalma Garnier.

Hedwig Gorski never claimed close ties to the feminist movement, but feminists reportedly consider her work to contain powerful statements about the disparity caused by race and gender in the United States.

Hedwig Gorski calls these persecuted groups "invisible minorities" in the United States because they are often of European heritage.

II, along with Isabella Russell-Ides and many other performing poets Hedwig Gorski collected and produced.

Hedwig Gorski has called herself a "performance poet" in press releases and interviews when describing what she did with East of Eden.

Hedwig Gorski first coined the term "performance poetry" to name her style of writing poetry for oral presentation, instead of for print publication, in a 1981 press release.

Hedwig Gorski sees poets in American society as a disenfranchised minority group with a history of prosecution by the American government for obscenity when exercising the freedom of speech.

Hedwig Gorski produced and funded projects to distribute works of performance-oriented literature outside the "mainstream".

Hedwig Gorski promoted and nurtured literature opposed to the establishment.

Hedwig Gorski was a founding writer for The Austin Chronicle in 1980 initiating and naming the Litera column that discussed readings, books, and other matters of importance related to non-mainstream, alternative, and small press literature, especially poetry.

Hedwig Gorski made an appearance at the Cafe Krzysztofory in Krakow in 2004 for the United States Embassy and the French Institute in Krakow before returning to the United States.

Hedwig Gorski coined the term "Performance Poetry" in the early 1980s after initiating and writing the "Litera" column for the Austin Chronicle in an effort to distinguish her performed poetry from performance art.

Hedwig Gorski was one of the founding writers on the Austin Chronicle, which helped to promote the vibrant "music capital of the world" that Austin, the capital of Texas, had become.

Hedwig Gorski's literature-based broadcast audio increased the popularity of performance poetry, the genre she named to describe her own work: literature-based poetry written for performance only and not for print publication.

Hedwig Gorski's spoken vocals have been described as bringing her "eerie" voicing as close to singing as possible without actually singing.

Unlike the Beats, Hedwig Gorski wrote her stylized narrative and moody lyrical poetry only for performance with the music composed by D'Jalma Garnier specifically for each poem.

Hedwig Gorski transferred her love of images into a poetics that incorporated the anti-capitalist, socialist un-doings found in performance art and conceptual art.

Hedwig Gorski's poems received music lyric awards, rather than literature awards, though she never sang.