Dear Versopolis friends,


the year is almost over and we dare a glance into 2023 and invite you once again to participate in next year's digital initiative "Poetry Expo23"!

At Versopolis, we believe that poetry is a node connecting people from all over the word, calling for dialogue, nurturing diversity and human creativity and building bridges between continents and cultures. After two very successful editions of the Festival of Hope which took place during the COVID years, and in addition to our digital festival Brave New Literatures in the beginning of 2022, we invite you to join our laboratory of new, progressive ideas that strengthen literature, communities, as well as individuals, when Versopolis is launching the Poetry Expo initiative in February 2023.

Read below and in the article on how to pitch your project and who is already participating this time! Also, don't hestitate to contact us, in case you need further information or have any question!

We are looking forward to all your ideas and programms, and send you the best in the meantime,

your VERSOPOLIS teamPOETRY EXPO 23Call for Entries

CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR THE FIRST DIGITAL POETRY EXPO, ORGANISED AND CURATED BY VERSOPOLIS, A EUROPEAN PLATFORM OF INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVALS


Poetry Expo is the world’s first digital fair completely dedicated to poetry, human creativity and literature, designed to showcase the achievements of different nations, cultures and languages, connecting artist from all around the globe, working towards a change both in art and society at large, while offering you a space to present and share your ideas with the global community. With this initiative, Versopolis aims to support co-operation and increase the visibility of poetry in public spaces by promoting innovative ways of achieving and sharing progress, seeing human creativity as an important part of solutions, making a difference for society, the environment, or both. Under the slogan Connecting by poetry, creating for future, Poetry Expo intends to break down the boundaries between national cultures and art genres by promoting diversity, liberty, and social engagement, and showcasing the finest creations of different cultures, that which makes us all human.

Poetry Expo wishes to create a space for free expression and creativity, and share collective and individual best practices and accomplishments in culture and literature. With five digital pavilions focused on the subthemes of opportunity, sustainability, human and artificial creativity, future prospects and connect not divide, we invite the global art and culture community to pitch their projects related to the above subthemes, and indeed other works that may not fit the subthemes, but can reach and move audiences, raise awareness and mobilise.
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Poetry Expo 2023(Selection, Dec. 2022)
As a European poetry platform, Versopolis creates new opportunities
for emerging European poets and poetesses. In it's annual digital festival we broaden the context even further and participants from all corners of the literary scene join in.

This year we have poetry festivals such as Ars Poetica from Slovakia, Hausacher LeseLenz from Germany or Cork International Poetry Festival that takes place in Irland join.

Organizations from as far as PEN Bangladesh and PEN Armenia participate as well as the National Museum of Literature in Bucharest, Romania. But also collectivs such as Encyclopedic Poetry School all the way from China and publishers like Vakxikon (Greece) and Editio Plurilingua (Hungary). And many individuals such as Valerie Wolf Gang (Slovenia), Daniela Calisi (Italy) and Lina Buividaviciute (Lithuania).

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