LANDMIJNEN (HOE GROOT)Roger NupieHoe groot is de mensdie met woorden alsbom, obus, raket, raketbom goochelt,en ze vult met kleinere bommen.Hoe groot is de mensals deze munitie in bomen,op daken of onder armoedigAfrikaans zand belandt.Hoe groot i…
Read More2de Festival v/d Europese Dichtkunst-2. Festival Europäischer Dichtkunst-2nd European Poetry Festival-2ième Festival de la Poésie Européenne
by Tumbleweed • August 14th, 2011
Degenaar (Friesland), Fred Schywek (Duitsland), Annmarie Sauer, Devorah Major
(San Francisco), Didi De Paris, Frank De Vos, Tim Ceustermans-Deschepper, Frank
Niehusmann
a new salon 12b event
by Tumbleweed • July 24th, 2011
Si more sonando
nacht waait uit de bomen weg,
brengt wind in de vleugels. uilen
wieken in hun sluierdans. roepen.
vredig geluid. wij kunnen praten.
schaduw nestelt zich in ons bed.
handen splijten onze blik, glijden
in het gerommel. breken de wet.
hoe zullen we vallen? onze kussen kruisen
het pad, bijten zich vast in het vel.
liefde spant als een gloeiend gewelf
tussen hemel en hel. tussen de dromen
en de sterren slaat zij het beleg.
uit: Hinkelspel, uitgeverij P, 2008
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and the stars she lays.
US:Annmarie Sauer
For Susan Birkeland’s friends
by Tumbleweed • July 1st, 2011
Susan Birkeland
by Tumbleweed • May 18th, 2011
Today it is sure Susan Birkeland’s poetry will be included in the 2nd European Festival of Poetry. Her sister Deborah, kindly granted us permission. A first poem and its translations.
City Of Love
O My City
O My Lover
Love without envy?
An easy life?
A happy death?
for every thirsty foreign child
friends of friends I’ve never met
smiling fat girls and
uncles in freedom’s lucky trance.
drawing circles in the dry red earth
with the corner of his soft boot.
My mother, slow and old and practical.
The Return of Mercy
©Susan Birkeland
Stadt von Liebe
2nd European Festival of Poetry, 2011
by Tumbleweed • May 2nd, 2011
Note the 17th of September in your diaries: That is the day you can come to the Permeke library in Antwerp to enjoy the poets, performers, musicians and singers. The program is coming together nicely. The performances are finding their level, how to show and let hear what we want to communicate. Poets from five countries will be present. Some poets you might have met and heard last year and that would be an occasion to get reacquainted with them and some are first timers and not of the least. We’ll be honoring a few Grandes Dames of poetry who turn 70 and 75 this year. 7 of the poets come from outside of Belgium: 3 from The Netherlands, 2 from Germany, 1 from France and one from the US. Although work of more than one American poet will be read and performed.
So note the date: September 17, 8 PM.
As an appetizer a short poem by Sherman Alexie from one of the main features of the festival:The sounds of harbour, the upcoming third volume in this series: Harbors of the West.
With permission of Hanging Loose Press
Read More2nd European Festival of Poetry
by Tumbleweed • April 30th, 2011
After some hesitation we have embraced the idea of a 2nd European Festival of Poetry: Note the date: September 17, 2011, 8PM, Permeke Library in Antwerp, Belgium. Poets from five countries and two continents will participate. The Netherlands: Paul Gellings, Job Degenaar and Catharina Boer, from Germany Wilfried Bienek and Fred Schywek (organisor) and from Brittany, France, Olivier Cousin. I put in a link to his poetic blog. From Belgium there will be established poets, young poets, the city poet laureate from Antwerp, a hard core performer, intimate and wise poets. Yet the big surprise is that it looks like one American poetess is coming over for the 2nd European Festival of Poetry: Devorah Major. She is a former city poet laureate of San Francisco, writes vibrant, moving poetry. She champions poetry as a tool of resistance, works with high school kids to open up their world and has given writing classes to the homeless. Meet devorah major in her poetry:
from: where river meets ocean
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Nederlands: Annmarie Sauer
The multilingualism of the concept still thrives…
Read MoreOlivier Cousin, Bretton Poet on Belgian radio
by Tumbleweed • December 13th, 2010
When at the Small Festival of European Poetry Olivier Cousin and Bart Stouten met, it felt as if two long lost brothers found each other. Tonight on radio Klara in De Tuin van Eden, Bart will in his unique way present some of the poetry of Olivier as translated into Dutch by Paul Gellings. The music too will be great. 7pm till 8pm:
if you have to miss it tonight you can find it for a while in ‘herbeluisteren’.
I am sharing a poem from Sounds of Harbor II in French and English
English: Annmarie Sauer
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