This week marks the beginning of the annual 32nd International literature festival Druskininkai Poetic Fall, which begins with the presentation of Druskininkai Poetic Fall Anthology.

Next week marks the beginning of the annual 31^st international Druskininkai Poetic Fall, which begins on October 7. We anticipate the occasion by announcing the laureates of the Yotvingian and Young Yotvingian Awards.

All the literary events are currently alive only in our thoughts and memories, and new book launches await their designated evenings. However, there is yet nothing that hinders us from reading poetry and listening to it virtually.

Ramunė Brundzaitė concluded this season of Lithuanian poetry for the festivals of VERSOPOLIS this August with her readings in the Slovenian festival "Dnevi poezije in vina" (Days of Poetry and Wine). For us, this year has been especially vivid: in May, the poet Indrė Valantinaitė participated in the Croatian festival "Goranovo proljeće" (Goran’s Spring) and was also invited to the United Kingdom to attend the Ledbury Poetry Festival. In April, the poet Agnė Žagrakalytė visited our neighbors in Gdansk and took part in the festival "Odnalezione w tłumaczeniu" (Found in Translation).

On July 1 and 2, New Zealand’s poet Hera Lindsay Bird visited Vilnius and Kaunas. This has been one of the first meetings that will be more frequent in the context of Druskininkai Poetic Fall festival. We have plans to invite various poets and to organize meetings with them not just in Vilnius or Druskininkai, but also in other towns and cities of Lithuania.

On July 1 and 2, Hera Lindsay Bird, New Zealand poet and New Generation winner, will be visiting Lithuania and meeting the audience. In 2016, she debuted with her poem collection "Hera Lindsay Bird" that became popular immediately and was bought up overnight.