Maybe I'm not the most optimistic person when it comes to literary events, then again, I did have some unfortunate experiences, both in Romania and in Poland. On the other hand, certain happenings and certain people - the ones who power these happenings - are the living proof that you can make a point, a valid statement and at the same time enjoy literature of the finest quality.
Although sometimes they might seem to come from another world. Because of such affirmations:
The thing is we managed rather quickly to convince everyone - that was basically the easiest thing, because very many institutions all around the world are interested to promote their poetry. It wasn’t that hard to convince people of the project and to get the network partners, and the partners we got in Germany, they were just convinced of the concept of an international network that promotes German poetry worldwide and at the same time getting poetry from everywhere else into Germany.
Meet Boris Nitzsche, one of the founders of lyrlikline.org - the poetry platform I was writing about after my return from Berlin. You can read the whole interview here and, if you read in Romanian, check out the next issue of Noua Literatura.
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