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The Miłosz Festival is a sacred time of encounters with poetry. The diversity of proposals is guaranteed by the division of the program into separate blocks – meetings with guests, debates, workshops, exhibitions, a conference on haiku and a series of events addressed to the youngest audience. Between the 14th and the 17th of May, […]

The City of Literature Foundation and the Krakow Festival Office in co-operation with the Krakow Literature Foundation and the Chair of Contemporary Critique of the Faculty of Polish Studies of the Jagiellonian University invite you to attend critical workshops. The dispute over Polish poetry continues. One of the steady points of reference within that dispute […]

The Miłosz Festival is not only a poetic trip inspired by A Book of Luminous Things, but also lectures and discussions devoted to haiku – the Far Eastern poetry genre that was close to Miłosz’s heart. As a part of the Festival, the 2nd International Haiku Conference will be held in the Manggha Museum of […]

The 4th edition of the Miłosz Festival will include not only poetic peregrinations, but also a rich program of music events and a film screening. Outstanding poets Miron Białoszewski and Yuri Andrukhovych together with musicians from the alternative scene, a film recollection of Kornel Filipowicz and, most of all, sensational poets from Lithuania and Belarus. […]

The biggest festival of poetry in Poland – the Miłosz Festival – will kick off soon! You want to get to know world-famous poets like Charles Simic or Ruth Padel? You want to see how the literary festival is made in Poland? You want to learn to organise meetings, concerts and exhibitions? Join us! We […]

During the Festival in 2013, eight collections of the Festival guests’ poems, previously unpublished in Poland, were presented – among others the collected works of Wiera Burłak, Duo Duo, Juan Gelman, Philip Levine, Michael Krüger, Lew Rubinstein, and Gary Snyder. By presenting their works, the Miłosz Festival prepares the audience for conscious reception and discovery […]

The Miłosz Festival and the Festival of Literature of Children invite you to a cycle of events for the youngest readers. From the 14th till the 16th of May in Krakow, children and their parents will participate in meetings with authors, workshops and a city game. On that occasion, Krakow will be visited, among others, […]