"Inflation" of Poets in the Capital

For a few days, Bucharest will become the city of poets. The 13th edition of the International Poetry Festival Bucharest (FIPB) will take place from September 11th to 17th. The program includes the participation of over 170 poets from 27 countries across four continents (Albania, Algeria, Austria, Bolivia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, North Macedonia, Morocco, Montenegro, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Moldova, Spain, Turkey, the Netherlands, and Uruguay). Ioan Cristescu, the director of the National Museum of Romanian Literature and the organizer of the event, stated: "Organized by the City Hall of Bucharest through the National Museum of Romanian Literature, the International Poetry Festival of Bucharest celebrates its 13th edition in 2023, the most ambitious so far, a success for which I want to thank all the institutional partners of the project, as well as every professional who has put their energy into creating the program for the seven days of the event. This year's theme of the International Poetry Festival Bucharest is placed under the well-known paraphrase from Cicero: 'inter arma silent musae,' an ambitious exercise to celebrate the power of poetry and, by extension, of literature, and a plea for the eternity of the muses that have the power to inspire the arts and liberating words, even in the turbulent and challenging times of today, in which, for the past two years, we have heard the echoes of a war at the northern border of the country. I am convinced that literature enthusiasts will find in the diverse and ambitious program moments and events that satisfy all tastes, from the youngest readers to the experienced ones, from the harshest critics to those for whom literature is a modus vivendi or for those who can now find themselves in it."

The seven days of the festival include almost 50 events of different themes and formats: from meetings with poets, public readings, debates, roundtable discussions, colloquia, poetry marathons or performances, to theater performances, film screenings, concerts, exhibitions, and events dedicated to professionals - a comprehensive and dense program built over the last half year by the team of the National Museum of Romanian Literature, together with dozens of project partners. It's an exercise in the relational aesthetics of the arts, a space for conversation and reflection, in which new perspectives are shared, where writing is celebrated as an art, alongside the tones of jazz music, the nuances and pictorial visions, or the immersion in a theatrical or cinematic performance. Poetry lovers in the capital are expected to take part in events within FIPB 2023 in 13 well-known cultural spaces in Bucharest: the "Carol" Central University Library, the National Museum of Romanian Literature - headquarters at 8 Nicolae Creţulescu Street, the National Museum of Romanian Literature - headquarters at 64-66 Calea Griviţei, Cărtureşti Verona, the "Friedrich Schiller" Cultural House, ARCUB, Kyralina Bookstore, Cotroceni Museum, Cervantes Institute in Bucharest, BMB, "Tudor Arghezi - Mărţişor" Memorial House, Londohome, Romanian Playwrights' Theatre.