19-21, September 2019. Heraklion-Crete

1st Crete International Poetry Festival

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Our Festival

Poet Koukis Christos and the nonprofit “Mind the loop” are proudly presenting the 1^st edition of the International Poetry Festival of Crete, an international meeting of poets from around the world. 18 poets from 12 different countries are coming this September in Crete for 3 days full of poetry, words and discussions.

Our Mission

We are going to connect the festival with many festivals around the world and many unions of poetry such as World Poetry Movement and Kritya Poetry Movement. I have the whole list of the festivals and unions.

Poets Of The Festival

Gerhard Falkner (Germany)

Jochen Kelter (Switzerland)

Yu Jian (China)

Gökçenur Ç. (Turkey)

Selahattin Yolgiden (Turkey)

Titos Patrikios (Greece)

Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke (Greece)

Anastasis Vistonitis (Greece)

Koukis Christos (Greece)

Aristea Papalexandrou (Greece)

Goran Djordjevic (Serbia)

Marco Pogacar (Croatia)

Lawrence Schimel (USA)

Rati Saxena (India)

Hemant Divate (India)

Guillaume Decourt (France)

Zingonia Zingone (Italy)

Zhao Fan (China)

Location of Crete International Poetry Festival

Leof. Ikarou 25, Iraklio 713 07, Greece

Festival

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Festival 35.338724, 25.144148

Contact Us

Call me at
0030-6974358520

Christos Koukis

Mikras Asias 47-51, 16231 Vironas

Athens, Attica Region, Greece

Email me at
director@cipfest.org

cipfest

We are proudly presenting the 1st edition of the International #Poetry Festival of Crete, an international meeting of #poets from around the world.✍️

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Poets and history .
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Gerhard Falkner, born in 1951, is one of the most important
German poets of our time. He has published several volumes
of poems, amongst them „Hölderlin Reparatur“ (2008),
awarded with the Peter-Huchel-Prize, and „Ignatien“ (2014). In
his 2019 volume of poems „Schorfheide. Gedichte en plein
air“ he has restored nature poetry. After scholarships at Villa
Massimo/Casa Baldi, Rome and the Academy at Solitude
castle, Stuttgart, he was in 2013 the first fellow of the
Acadamy Tarabya, Istanbul and in 2014 fellow of Villa Aurora,
Los Angeles. His novels „Apollokalypse“ („Apollocalypse“;
2016) and „Romeo oder Julia“ („Romeo or Julia“; 2017), acclaimed by the literary
critics, were nominated for the most prestigious prize of the German literary world,
Deutscher Buchpreis. Gerhard Falkner lives in Berlin and in Bavaria. .
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Our aim is to establish a new institution of literature and poetry, to bring together festivals from around the globe, to invite more and more poets every year from more and more countries every time.
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Attempts to define poetry
American poet Robert Frost said shrewdly that poetry was what got left behind in translation, which suggests a criterion of almost scientific refinement: when in doubt, translate; whatever comes through is prose, the remainder is poetry. And yet to even so acute a definition the obvious exception is a startling and a formidable one: some of the greatest poetry in the world is in the Authorized or King James Version of the Bible, which is not only a translation but also, as to its appearance in print, identifiable neither with verse nor with prose in English but rather with a cadence owing something to both
Source: www.britannica.com
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Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own. 📚💟
Dylan Thomas
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✍️From The Festival Book:
Poetry creates new distances- while clarifying the ones that are true and beneficial -
allowing us to choose whether to flinch or to go through them abundantly. It sets life
as the yardstick of all things and it sets fear as a discusser worthy of our respect and
our harsh confrontation but not our disorderly retreat.
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1ST CRETE INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL
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