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Poetry International Festival 2025

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The Poetry Summit: Laureates & Legends

Join us from the 12th-15th of June 2025 for a poetic gathering that promises to be both cheeky and profound. This year’s theme takes inspiration from the United Nations with the first-ever global Poetry Summit, co-curated by Poetry International and Dutch Poet Laureate Babs Gons. We bring you a line-up featuring only the most esteemed voices, recognized with the highest (inter)national honors.

As representatives of their countries, they will engage in readings, discussions, workshops, interviews, debates, and performances that will showcase the rich tapestry of poetic cultures. Together with you, they will explore poetry's role in shaping both nations and the world. Be a part of this historic occasion where the world’s leading voices unite for one time only to celebrate the 55th Anniversary of Poetry International Festival.

In a groundbreaking moment, the festival will witness the adoption of the Declaration of Future Poetry Generations, a visionary document about the vital importance of poetry, aimed at securing the future of poetry for generations to come.

Let’s make poetry the universal language this June in Rotterdam! See you there.

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Bombing of Poems Rotterdam • May 14, 2025

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Opening Program Poetry International x Conny Janssen Danst

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News / May 08, 2025

Poetry International 55th Anniversary Anthology — Pre-Order Now

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News / May 06, 2025

De genomineerden voor de C. Buddingh’-prijs 2025

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News / May 03, 2025

Poetry dinner with Casagrande

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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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