In the organizer's words:

25TH POESIEFESTIVAL BERLIN: JULY 4 - 21, 2024 AT SILENT GREEN KULTURQUARTIER AND THROUGHOUT BERLIN

Every summer, international poetry finds new locations throughout the city at the poesiefestival berlin: be it in a Neukölln workshop, a warehouse on Eiswerder Island, a circus tent in Hohenschönhausen, the Marzahn City Library or the beech garden of the Academy of Arts, poets perform and read everywhere and open up temporary new places for poetry - the Poets' Corner. This year's central festival venue is the silent green Kulturquartier in Wedding.

Poets and musicians will read, sing, perform and reflect at the festival in established reading nights such as Weltklang - Night of Poetry or the Berlin Poetry Speech as well as in new formats such as Vocations. While the afternoons offer the opportunity to get to know poets and their work in intimate poetry talks, evening events in larger panels deal with socio-political topics such as Writing Class, Writing Identities, Writing Histories and Writing Change. On the final weekend of the festival, a poetry market opens, numerous other poets perform at free outdoor readings and Poetic Education offers a wide range of activities for families with workshops for all age groups.

The poesiefestival berlin has been bringing international poetry to Berlin and presenting current trends in contemporary poetry since 2000. It is the largest poetry festival in Europe and one of the most important poetry events in the world. The poesiefestival berlin is a project of the Haus für Poesie and is supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.