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Poets of Today – Voices of Tomorrow: Poetry Performance

WHEN – 26. 11. 2024WHERE – Festivalna dvorana, Ljubljana, Slovenia Join us for a unique poetry evening celebrating the POT-VOT project, bringing together five exceptional European poets and engaging young audiences with contemporary poetry. This event, which emphasises the importance of international poetic collaboration, will…

Presentation of the book “Poets of Today – Voices of Tomorrow: A Methodology for Bringing Contemporary Poetry into Classrooms”

WHEN – 27. 11. 2024WHERE – Gospodarsko razstavišče, Slovenian Book Fair The day after the conference, the second book of the POT-VOT project will be presented at the Publishers’ Academy. This book is not just a collection of poetry by 50 poets from all…

PoT-VoT at the 40th Slovenian Book Fair: International conference “Voices of the future: The importance of poetry in the modern education system”

Pionirski dom is teaming up with the annual Slovenian Book Fair, presenting the project “Poets of Today – Voices of Tomorrow.” The conference is dedicated to exploring the role of poetry within the educational process and presenting good practices and methodologies for integrating poetry into school curricula.

EMMA LEPPO: JAIL

As I lie on this mattress staring at the ceiling and the fields behind my eyes I think of Anna Akhmatova whose only chance of preserving her poems through the times of persecution was to memorize each one by heart. As I lie awake under…

Małgorzata Lebda: Feeding the dogs

Mornings here, in this wet valley, are good, the end of the world as it happens isn’t on my mind too often, while I’m attending to more important things: take one pill of euthyrox, place a quarter of doxybactin in the cat’s mouth. Also, feed…

MARTON SIMON: NIGIRI

Look, I really would have liked to have put something cold, precise and to the point in front of you, if we don’t have time anyway, the continents are about to drift apart again, and nature can in any case be divided in two,…

Ádám Vajna: Cowherd Maiden Blues

the cowherd maiden leads her cows to graze upon the pasture. cowherd maiden, lead no cows to pasture now or after. cowherd maiden, your gentle cows, a plague upon their hides, for woodland bears on the prowl will split your gentle sides, will…

RADMILA PETROVIĆ: All I want is someone to dismantle my Dad’s tractor with in peace and quie

I am a ladykiller-girl I carry a penknife in my pocket and wires in my bra I took a mortgage on my heart wanted to build a house together now I’m not even sure if any of those people had ever loved me but I let the past…

Orsolya Fenyvesi: Hunger is the Best Sauce

I am a terrible eater, the great Hungarian writers, as we know, bolted down their dinner. In the museum of Hungarian literature, after the section where Petőfi comes under bitter attack for his poems, I reached an exhibition filling several rooms, showcasing our greats’ own…

Szilveszter Veszprémi : May You Be Forever Happy 1

I learned this from an emo girl I was fourteen and she sixteen she was roaring out ‘Lilac Bough’ all off-key and mega sexy and she said those words don’t mean a thing and that only yelling only yelling’s got a point FRA-GRANT-LY she…