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Save the Date: The 55th Poetry International Festival is Coming!

Something extraordinary is on the horizon. Mark your calendars for June 12-15, 2025, for the 55th Poetry International Festival! This year, we’re going bigger, bolder, and more inspiring than ever before. For four exhilarating days, the world’s most powerful voices in poetry will come together for an event unlike anything you’ve ever experienced!

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Poetry with you!

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News / June 01, 2024

Rozige Maanvissen by Sytse Jansma wins the C. Buddingh’-prijs 2024

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Valentine's Day Special / January 30, 2024

A Blind Date with a Book & Open Mic

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13 Year-old pupil of Wolfert Dalton writes most beautiful line of poetry / January 25, 2024

Leah Nölling wins high school poetry contest

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Archive Tours: Discover your favorite poems

With more than 10.000 poems in more than ninety languages, translated into English and often into Dutch, the Poetry Archives has a lot of reading material. Travel across the voluminous poetry collection of Poetry International with one of the Archive Tours – take for example the favorite poems of Rotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb – or choose poets and poems from a specific country, or pick your favorite festival edition or poems in a specific language or as audio or video.

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Sponsors
Gemeente Rotterdam
Nederlands Letterenfonds
Stichting Van Beuningen Peterich-fonds
Prins Bernhard cultuurfonds
Lira fonds
Versopolis
J.E. Jurriaanse
Gefinancierd door de Europese Unie
Elise Mathilde Fonds
Stichting Verzameling van Wijngaarden-Boot
Veerhuis
VDM
Partners
LantarenVenster – Verhalenhuis Belvédère