-Sofia Poetics
Vassilis Amanatidis reading at Sofia Poetics Festival
29th - 31st August,
Sofia
Word Express poets Yaprak Oz (Turkey), Vassilis Amanatidis (Greece) and Radu Vancu (Romania) are attending the Sofia Poetics International Poetry Festival where they will read together with the Bulgarian poets Kamelia Spassova, Maria Kalinova and Ivan Hristov.
Performances
29 August 2010, 4pm
Poetry readings and music on an outdoor stage in Borisov Gardens, Sofia's
central park
30 August 2010, 6pm
Special reading with the festival's foreign guests on an outdoor stage
in the park in front of the National Palace of Culture. After the reading,
there will be a short discussion on the topic "What can we do with poetry
in an urban setting?"
Information on the festival in Bulgarian: http://sofiapoetics.eu
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