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13 and 14 October 2023, between 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., Multicultural Centre of the University

The Poetry Biennale proposes, in each of its editions, a concept chosen in relation to the most stringent contemporaneity in order to reaffirm the relevance of poetry as an art of the courage to explore, express (or invent?) reality before it is configured in public discourse.
After the experience of femininity (2013), intergenerational affinities (2015), the imperative of disobedience (2017), the feeling of nature or “kosmophilia” (2019) and the mediation of existence through technology (2021), this year’s edition seeks to redefine and rethink our individual memberships in groups or communities, inviting 16 poets who explore in their poetry this tension and who define (partially, temporarily, polemically, politically, privately, anxiously, guiltily, euphorically, etc.) the imagined and imaginary community of a We/Us.

The poets invited to Brașov this year are Răzvan Andrei (ROU), Ioan Coroamă (ROU), Andro Dadiani (GEO), Dumitru Fanfarov (MDA), Anastasia Gavrilovici (ROU), Andreu Gomila (ESP/CAT), Jeremy Allan Hawkins (FRA/USA), Cătălin Lazurca (ROU), Aušra Kaziliūnaitė (LTU),Dóra Mărcuțiu-Rácz (ROU), Mitoș Micleușanu (ROU), Vlad Moldovan (ROU), Radmila Petrović (SRB), Alke Stachler (DEU) and Moni Stănilă (ROU), some of the most original and relevant contemporary poets of Romania and Europe. 
Each day of readings will end with a performance: on Friday, 13 October, our guest is the jazz pianist Robert Mitchell (GBR); and on 14 October, the musicians Ana Dubyk - voice and Răzvan Cipcă – guitar (ROU) will close the festival. 

The event organized by the Faculty of Letters has Brașov City Hall as its main sponsor, and will take place at the Multicultural Centre of the University.