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I'll be there! The Declaration for Future Generations

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Diana Anphimiadi (Georgia) and Lyuba Yakimchuk (Ukraine) are the Versopolis Poets at Poetry International Festival

News / June 10, 2025

The Bombing of Poems Rotterdam: The video is here!

News / May 24, 2025

Myriem El-Kaddouri is the winner of the C.Buddingh'-Prize 2025 for her collection Hier ligt de waarheid in overdaad

News / May 20, 2025

Waar is het lam? (2022) by Mustafa Stitou wins the Johan Polak Poetry Prize 2025

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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.

Thanks for being there!

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news

Diana Anphimiadi (Georgia) and Lyuba Yakimchuk (Ukraine) are the Versopolis Poets at Poetry International Festival

The Bombing of Poems Rotterdam: The video is here!

Myriem El-Kaddouri is the winner of the C.Buddingh'-Prize 2025 for her collection Hier ligt de waarheid in overdaad

Waar is het lam? (2022) by Mustafa Stitou wins the Johan Polak Poetry Prize 2025

Between Worlds

Netukulimk

There is a poem for that!

Deliciously Dancing with the Devil

"Dear Friends, please don’t misunderstand"

You have to change to stay the same

Poetry as protest

The doors of perception

Natural talents

From an (un)reliable source

Le Tour de la Poésie!

LGBTQ+

Summer Tour

A RESTRAINED SILENCE

Comfort & Consolation

AMAZONIAN ALIENS

TIME

scales, the earth [excerpt]

MALTESE

Maricela Guerrero

Esther Phillips

Sonja Prins

SMUGGLING

Lyuba Yakimchuk

Koloku

REGGAE FI DADA

Luís Lima

Nadia Mifsud

Eline Marengo

fairy tales

MY ANCESTORS GIFTED ME THEIR SILENCE

Elfie Tromp

Chris Tse

I HAVE A CRISIS FOR YOU

I KICKED A MUSHROOM

REVOLUTION ON THE WALLS OF MY MOUTH

THE MYSTERY OF PRAYERS

Carolyne M. Acen (Afroetry)

POET NO THANKS

The Lovers

H.C. ten Berge

LUNGS

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

i was born old

MY NAME IS DAWANYENO

Marjolijn van Heemstra

Sasja Janssen

Alfred Schaffer

Radna Fabias

Albertina Soepboer

Eva Gerlach

Anne Feddema

Cees Nooteboom

Herman Gorter

Pieter Boskma

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