Spotlight: Kevin Gwozdz

Kevin Gwozdz

Kevin Gwozdz is a deli slicer hailing from the rainy streets of northeast Portland. Currently, he's a 25-year-old working-class poetry student attending his senior year at Portland State University. Everyday he writes (with concern) of the external pragmatic world, as a means of reflection and consultation for his internal world. With a propensity toward Greek mythology, he looks to the past to interpret the present and hypothesize the future. Kevin aspires to visit Athens, Greece to contextualize the place that arguably gave birth to the beginning of Western schools of thought in regard to poetry, philosophy, and mathematics. More importantly to him, it's the birthplace of who he believes to be the Mother of poetry, Sappho. Kevin says to you, “Do not look entirely at the poem, but rather inside yourself.” Visit his website here.