Mira Łuksza, poetka „tutejsza”

Mira Łuksza, a “Local” Poet This article is about the biography and work of Mira Łuksza, a bilingual Polish-Belarusian poet who made her debut in the 1980s in the Belarusian-language, first-circulation “Niwa” (“Ніва”), while in the 1990s, she was also associated with the post-opposition Polish-language magazine “Kartki.” She therefore operated at the intersection of several circulations, trying to connect them, for example, through the category of “locality” (author of Wiersze tutejsze). The text shows how the emergence of cultural magazines at the beginning of the 1990s (the so-called third circulation) allowed the bilingual Belarusian journalist and poet to engage in the transformations of Polish literature that followed the pivotal events of 1989. The article analyzes examples of the understanding of “locality” and the biographies of “locals” in Łuksza’s poetry and in her articles from “Niwa.” Keywords: Mira Łuksza, Podlasie, “Kartki,” “Niwa” (“Ніва”), regional literature, locality