Poetry and asylum

01/23/2012

 
_On January 26th the International Literature House Passa Porta in Brussels will open its doors for an evening with asylum seekers who are also poets. With a.o. Jef Lingier, David van Reybrouck, Khan Novaid Haqqash, Keita and the Italian poet Fabio Scotto. Moderator: Peter Vermeersch. More information here.
 

The European Dream

09/11/2009

 
On October 1st, I'm taking part in "The European Dream", a debate evening about the EU organized by deBuren, the Flemish-Dutch cultural house in Brussels. Location: Flagey, Studio 1, Heilig Kruisplein, 1050 Brussels. More details here.

Update: see pictures here. Video below.


 

At TEDGlobal 2009

07/22/2009

 

On July 21, I gave a talk at TEDGlobal 2009 in Oxford about the European Constitution in Verse. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an organization devoted to ideas worth spreading.

 
 

I'm reading from the European Constitution in Verse at NYU's poetry festival The Unacknowledged Legislators of the World - A Poetical Assembly, held at the university's beautiful campus in Florence. On the program also Rachel Cohen, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stanley Moss, Walter Murch, Eugene Ostashevsky, and Robert Pinsky. Location: Pomario, Garden of Villa La Pietra, Italy