13th poesiefestival berlin

Some of the most resonant voices in contemporary poetry worldwide will be coming to Berlin from 1-9 June for the 13th poesiefestival berlin organised by the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin. They include Ken Babstock (Canada), Horácio Costa (Brazil), Ngwatilo Mawiyoo (Kenya), Abdelwahab Meddeb (Tunisia/France), Michael Palmer (USA) Hama Tuma (Ethiopia), JUN Yan (China) and Fatima Naoot (Egypt).
For this year’s VERSschmuggel / ReVERSible translation workshop, poets from Brazil will be coming together with their German counterparts to translate each other. Lyrikline.org will be taking the opportunity to get some of the poets into the studio to record them for the website.
During the festival, the international partners of lyrikline.org will be meeting. The meeting offers a forum for exchanges ideas and experiences, for discussing problems and perspectives, and for intensifying the building of networks beyond national boundaries.
For more information, go to www.poesiefestival.org

European Renshi at the poesiefestival berlin 2012

Together with some of its partners in the lyrikline.org network, the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin has initiated an original European poetry project for the poesiefestival berlin from 1-9 June 2012. 28 poets from all EU member states and Croatia have been collaborating to write a renshi, a chain poem, on the situation in Europe and will be presenting it at 8 pm on 2 June 2012 in the Academy of the Arts in Berlin. Before that, at 4 pm, there will be discussions with the poets at various locations around Berlin.
As well as poems in 23 languages, translations into German and English have also been prepared of all the texts. The results, poems from 28 countries, will soon be available to listen to and read on lyrikline.org.
The following lyrikline.org partners have collaborated on the “renshi.eu” project, assisting in the organisation and, not least, selecting the poet from each of their countries: Continua a leggere→