Over 170 poets from 27 countries to attend the Bucharest International Poetry Festival

Next month, between September 11-17, 13th edition of the Bucharest International Poetry Festival (FIPB) will take place in the Romanian Capital. A project known and followed with interest by both the writers’ guild and the poetry-loving public, the Bucharest International Poetry Festival has grown exponentially from one edition to the next, becoming today the most important genre event in Romania and one of the most watched from Europe.

The architecture of the program of this year’s edition includes a rich list of participants: more than 170 poets from 27 countries on 4 continents (Albania, Algeria, Austria, Bolivia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, North Macedonia, Morocco, Montenegro, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Republic of Moldova, Spain, Turkey, Netherlands and Uruguay).

“Organized by the Capital City Hall through the National Museum of Romanian Literature, the Bucharest International Poetry Festival celebrates in 2023 the 13th edition, the most ambitious so far, a success for which I want to thank all the institutional partners of the project , as well as to every professional who put their energy into making the program of the seven days of the event.This year’s theme of the Bucharest International Poetry Festival is placed under the well-known paraphrase after Cicero: inter arma silent musae? – an ambitious exercise to celebrate the power of poetry and, in extenso, literature, and a plea for the eternity of the muses that have the power to inspire the arts and free speech, even in today’s troubled and difficult times, where, for two years for days, we hear the echo of a war on the northern border of the country.I am convinced that literature lovers will find moments and events in the diverse and ambitious program to satisfy all tastes, from the youngest readers to the experienced ones, from the most severe in appreciation to those for whom literature is a modus vivendi or to those who can now find themselves in it”, said Ioan Cristescu, the Director of the National Museum of Romanian Literature, the organizer of the event.

The seven days of the festival include almost 50 events, on different themes and formats: from meetings with poets, public readings, debates, round tables, colloquiums, poetry marathons or performances, to theater performances, film screenings and concerts, exhibitions and events dedicated to professionals – an extensive and dense program, built over the last half of the year by the team of the National Museum of Romanian Literature together with dozens of project partners: an exercise in relational aesthetics of the arts, a space for conversation and reflection, in which new perspectives are shared, where writing is celebrated as art, alongside the tones of jazz music, the nuances and visions of painting, or the immersion of theatre or cinem performances.

Poetry lovers from the capital are expected to take part in FIPB 2023 events in 13 well-known cultural spaces in Bucharest: Central University Library “CaroI”, National Museum of Romanian Literature – headquarters at 8 Nicolae Crețulescu Street, National Museum of Romanian Literature – headquarters in Calea Griviței 64-66, Cărtureşti Verona, House of Culture “Friedrich Schiller”, ARCUB, Kyralina Bookstore, Cotroceni Museum, Cervantes Institute in Bucharest, BMB, Memorial House “Tudor Arghezi – Mărțișor”, Londohome, Theater of Romanian Playwrights.

At the 2023 edition of the Bucharest International Poetry Festival, the organizers resumed a project known and loved by poetry lovers: the National Poetry Book Fair, an event that brings to the fore the most recent and most important volumes of poetry.

Public participation in the events of the Bucharest International Poetry Festival is free. The complete program of the project can be found on the official website: www.fipb.ro.