Karen Kovacik is a poet and translator of contemporary Polish poetry. Her books include Portable City, Metropolis Burning, and Beyond the Velvet Curtain, winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. Her translation of Agnieszka Kuciak's Distant Lands: An Anthology of Poets Who Don't Exist,  longlisted for the 2014 National Translation Award, is available from White…