Date:July 2012
Source: Pleiades
News Item: Folio, Six Dutch Poets
Between the 12th and the 22nd of April, five Dutch poets—John Schoorl, Joost Zwagerman, Hélène Gelèns, Erik Jan Harmens, and Lucas Hirsch—participated in the “New York to Pittsburgh and Back Dutch Poetry Tour,” which was organized by Hirsch and his poetrypromoting organization Small Revolution Productions, based in Haarlem, and supported by the Dutch Foundation for Literature. (The sixth poet included here and originally scheduled to participate, Pieter Boskma, had to bow out of the tour at the last minute.) During their ten days in the U.S., this eclectic group of poets read at Columbia University, Poets House, City of Asylum in Pittsburgh, The Netherland Club in New York City, and Ledig House in Omni, New York. What follows is a very small sample of their work—and thus of contemporary Dutch poetry—from Pieter Boskma, whose first book appeared in 1987, to Lucas Hirsch, whose first book was published in 2006.(Click link to read more)
Source: Pleiades
