I was at Poesiefestival 2015 in Berlin yesterday to see what the selection of Polish authors would bring, and, Lo!, what a pearl I have found. Her name is: Katarzyna Fetlińska, very young and sexy at her performance.
I had the honor to interview her shortly, asking her three questions to which she replied in gestures. Look here:
Continue reading Fast │ Cheap │ Dirty: Katarzyna Fetlińska (PL)
Cheers to Slovenia! Živijo! Smem prositi za ples? The Slovene author Anja Golob writes poetry, does translations, is an editor, a critic and a dramaturg. CROWD-Scout Linde Nadiani met her in Ljubljana just recently where they had a coffee. Now she told me about her poetry, about the Slovenian literary scene and about her recent publication in German. Let’s dance with Anja Golob.
Polip International Literature Festival
22-24 May 2015, Pristina (Kosovo)
After an intense and productive CROWD-partner meeting in Graz together with the teams of Lettrétage, Nuoren Voiman Liitto, FORUM Stadtpark and Ideogramma I continued my journey first to Slovenia and then to Kosovo, in order to meet some literary activists (and, hopefully, future members of the CROWD!) and to get more information about the free literary scenes in this countries…
Continue reading CROWD Diary Entry #1 (RKS)
This photo of SJ Fowler comes as “Bear as the Bear”. Best wishes to Jack London.By Julia Schiefer
The atmosphere of the “Hay Festival” in 2014 is buoyant and somewhat noisy. One could imagine that outside of the small frame of the youtube picture there could be people passing by, mumbling to each other, going out or in or stay for a while before moving on. Yet, it is poet/artist Steven J Fowler reading out his poems, that the screen is showing. Approaching the microphone, he says: “Oh my god, I just realized I am in Mexico” and right in this moment a technician appears out of nowhere to fix the height of his microphone as if he wanted to answer: Yes, my friend, here you are. Before reading out his poetry he states in a brutally honest fashion that he thanks “whoever insane person who decided to invite me” from London to Mexico, who invited a guy who writes poetry. A guy who is actually very restless about organizing collaborative poetry events with now over “100 events in over a dozen countries”, and has published just recently his sixth book of his own poetry {Enthusiasm}, doing exhibitions, and before he has been a poet actually was a martial artist. Continue reading Portrait: Steven J Fowler (GB)
In case of publication, please don’t forget to mention the photographer: (c) gezett.de.
SJ Fowler talks about “The Enemies project”.
“hochroth publishers Europe- a pilot project in the alternative publishing scene”
Martin Jankowski from the Berliner Literarische Aktion e.V. explains their projects involving literary and theatre workshops in prisons.
Jennifer Bode talks about ‘U30 – Neue Literatur für Berlin’ (U30 – New Literature for Berlin).
