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XXVIII Druskininkai Poetic Fall, Echoes of 2017
Theme: Women and Men in Poetry: Limits of Imagination
The 27th Annual Druskininkai Poetic Fall (DPF) Festival took place October 4-8, 2017. Just as in years prior, participants included the Lithuanian literary community and an especially large contingent of international guests: poets, writers, literary critics, publishers, literary festival organizers, and representatives from various organizations.
The 10th DPF 1999 took place on October 8 – 10, 1999. About 120 participants came from different countries: Craig Czury, James Hoch, Kerry Shawn Keys, and Sam Witt (USA); Knut Ødegård and Jostein Saeboe (Norway); Mikkel Thykier and Marius Nodrup-Nielsen (Denmark); Janis Ramba, Jolanda Silanže, Ieva Melgalve, and Maris Salajs (Latvia); Zbigniew Dominiak, Jagoda Rogorza, and Leszek Engelking (Poland); Elisabeth Rynell and Gunilla Forsen (Sweden); Gerardo Beltrán (Mexico); Jurij Jefremov (Russia); Riccardo Duranti (Italy); Darius Victor Snieckus (England); Lithuanian poets living abroad – Sigitas Birgelis from Poland, Kornelijus Jazbutis, Eglė Juodvalkė, and Jonas Zdanys from USA. The rest were Lithuanian poets, literary critics and publishers.
The eleventh Druskininkai Poetic Fall took place during the warm and sunny days of October 6 to 8, 2000 and brought together more than 120 poets, translators, and critics from Lithuania and from other countries.
The 12th DPF took place October 5-8. About 130 festival participants and guests from Lithuania and from abroad gathered together in Druskininkai.
The 13th international literary festival Druskininkai Poetic Fall took place October 3-7 in Druskininkai and Vilnius. 123 poets, translators, critics, literary scholars, and publishers participated.
This year we continued the cycle of four festivals linked to the elements, dedicating this second one to water. 144 participants (35 from abroad) took part in the festival on 1-6th October.
132 participants, among them 22 from abroad, took part in the DPF'2004 on 29th September – 4th October. The annual anthology of the festival was published in time. All poets published in it took part in readings:
Gintaras Bleizgys (Lithuania), Aleksei Alechin (Russia), Kazimierz Brakoniecki (Poland), Silvija Choleva (Bulgaria), Craig Czury (USA), Vytautas Bložė (Lithuania), Jacek Gutorow (Poland), Jürg Halter (Switzerland), Sam Hamill (USA), Miriam van hee (Belgium), Jurczok 1001 (Switzerland), Juris Kronbergs (Latvia), Pedro Lenz (Switzerland), Liv Lundberg (Norway), Darius Šimonis (Lithuania), Andri Snaer Magnason (Iceland), Jaan Malin (Estonia), Robert Minhinnick (Wales), Esther Morgan (England), Dovilė Zelčiūtė (Lithuania), Josip Osti (Slovenia), Knuts Skujenieks (Latvia), Mustafa Stitou (The Netherlands), and Agnė Žagrakalytė (Lithuania).
One hundred twelve participants, among them twenty-two from abroad, took part in the 16th festival on 12-17th October. All poets published in the anthology participated in festival readings:
Marcel Beyer (Germany); Anneke Brassinga (The Netherlands); Peters Bruveris (Latvia); Kristina Ehin (Estonia); Patricia Goodrich (USA); Tautvyda Marcinkevičiūtė (Lithuania); Bob Hansson (Sweden); Brian Johnstone (Scotland); Christian Katt (Austria); Marcelijus Martinaitis (Lithuania); Maria Martysevich (Belarus); Sabina Naef (Switzerland); Bragi Ólafsson (Iceland); Kęstutis Navakas (Lithuania); Claudio Pozzani (Italy); Rein Raud (Estonia); Donatas Petrošius (Lithuania); Steven Schroeder (USA); Rebecca Seiferle (USA); Rimvydas Stankevičius (Lithuania); Ilpo Tiihonen (Finland); Gunnar Wærness (Norway); and Patricija Šmit (Lithuania).
The XVII International Literary Festival Druskininkai Poetic Fall took place on October 4 – 9, 2006, and was highly successful. More than 110 poets, literary critics, and publishers took part in the event.
The XVIII International Literary Festival Druskininkai Poetic Fall took place from October 4 – 8, 2007, and was highly successful. More than 110 poets, literary critics, and publishers took part in the event.
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The XIX International Literary Festival Druskininkai Poetic Fall took place on 3-8th October 2008. 112 poets, literary critics, and publishers took part in the event. Poems by our international guests were translated into Lithuanian and published in the annual anthology of the DPF:
Andrzej Dorobek (Poland), Germain Droogenbroodt (Belgium–Spain), Hans Eichhorn (Austria), Lena Eltang (Russia–Lithuania), Jonathan Garfinkel (Canada), Joseph Grikis (USA), Paul Hoover (USA), Abel Murcia (Spain), Irena Praitis (USA), Piotr Sommer (Poland), Matthew Sweeney's (Ireland) ir Krisztina Tóth (Hungary). Four Lithuanian poets were translated into English and published in the anthology: Arnas Ališauskas (translated by Ada Valaitis), Marius Burokas (by Medeine Tribinevičius), Stasys Jonauskas and Stasys Stacevičius (by Jonas Zdanys).
The event took place on 30th September – 5th October in Vilnius and Druskininkai, Lithuania. The theme of the Festival was: Short Poetic Forms: Haiku. We hosted 121 participants from 23 countries:
Miroslav Adamtchik (Belarus), Karunesh Kumar Agrawal (India), Bin Akio (Japan), Shintaro Asaka (Japan), Alis Balbierius (Lithuania), Adrian Briedis-Macovei (Latvia), Olga Chernych (olala) (Ukraine), Dainius Dirgėla (Lithuania), Doc Drumheller (New Zealand), Vytautas Dumčius (Lithuania), Andres Ehin (Estonia), Hanne Hansen (Denmark), Adam Hlobus (Belarus), Anatoly Ilyustchyts (Belarus), Hideki Ishikura (Japan), Donaldas Kajokas (Lithuania), Sayumi Kamakura (Japan), Kerry Shawn Keys (Lithuania), Dmitry Kudrya - Petrovich (Russia), Alexander Kudryashov (Graf Mur) (Russia), Santosh Kumar (India), Hikari Kumoi (Japan), Sergey Kurbatov (Ukraine), Nataly Levi-taisha (Russia), Hideaki Matsuoka (Japan), Giedrius Mickūnas (Lithuania), Danielius Milašauskas (Lithuania), Çlirim Muça (Albania & Italy), Takeo Nakamura (Japan), Ban'ya Natsuishi (Japan), Dmitry Kudrya - Petrovich (Russia), Takaki Okubo (Japan, Professor of Comparative literature at Tokyo Woman's Christian University), Kornelijus Platelis (Lithuania), Primož Repar (Slovenia), Dragan J. Ristić (Serbia), David Rodrigues (Portugal), Natalia Sedenkova (Russia), Arturas Šilanskas (Lithuania), Joseph Spence (USA), Akira Takenami (Japan), Yuko Tange (Japan), Pietro Tartamella (Italy), Dietmar Tauchner (Austria), Petar Tchouhov (Bulgaria), Naoto Tsuchiya (Japan) Professor of Slavic literature at Tokai University), Mindaugas Valiukas (Lithuania), Irina Vatažina – Morskaja (Latvia), Chuei Yagi (Japan).
On October 7–10, 2010, more than one hundred poets, critics, and publishers from Lithuania and abroad attended the XXI Druskininkai Poetic Fall festival. The following poets participated in the featured poetry readings:
Alan Berecka (USA; translated by Marius Burokas); Vytautas P. Bložė (Lithuania; translated by Jonas Zdanys); Wojciech Bonowicz (Poland; translated by Vytas Dekšnys); Vladas Braziūnas (Lithuania; translated by Ada Valaitis); Tsead Bruinja (Netherlands; translated by Antanas Gailius);
Henrikas Algis Čigriejus (Lithuania; translated by Ada Valaitis); Valdas Gedgaudas (Lithuania; translated by Medeinė Tribinevičius); Bogomil Gjuzel (Macedonia; translated by Laima Masytė); Bob Holman (USA; translated by Edgaras Platelis); Evaldas Ignatavičius (Lithuania; translated by Medeinė Tribinevičius), Antanas A. Jonynas (Lithuania; translated by Medeinė Tribinevičius); Donaldas Kajokas (Lithuania; translated by Joseph Grikis); Erling Kittelsen (Norway; translated by Nora Strikauskaitė), Gueorgui Konstantinov (Bulgaria; translated by Laima Masytė); Eleanor Livingstone (Scotland; translated by Sonata Paliulytė); Marcelijus Martinaitis (Lithuania;translated by Laima Vince Sruoginis); Kęstutis Navakas (Lithuania; translated by Joseph Grikis); Victor Rodriguez Nunez (Cuba; translated by Jurga and Laurynas Katkus); Paul Perry (Ireland; translated by Edgaras Platelis); Alberto Princis (Italy; translated by Audrius Musteikis); Rajvinder Singh (India – Germany; translated by Antanas A. Jonynas); Knuts Skujenieks (Latvia; translated by Vladas Braziūnas); Triin Soomets (Estonia; translated by Danutė Sirijos – Giraitė); Rimvydas Stankevičius (Lithuania; translated by Kerry Shawn Keys); Ivo Stropnik (Slovenia; translated by Laima Masytė); Cai Tianxin (China; translated by Agnė Biliūnaitė); Tugrul Tanyol (Turkey; translated by Skaistė Kivci); Jonas Zdanys (USA – Lithuania; translated by Kornelijus Platelis); Dovilė Zelčiūtė (Lithuania; translated by Ada Valaitis); Agnė Žagrakalytė (Lithuania; translated by Jonas Zdanys).
Over one hundred poets, critics, and publishers from Lithuania and abroad participated in the 22nd Druskininkai Poetic Fall Literary Festival (DPF) that took place on October 5-10th, 2011.
