Enjoy the exhibition "Poetry Ride - the first 7 years" on 23 January to 28 February at Cultural House in Jēkabpils, Latvia. ... Read more

It started on 23 November 2014. It was a foggy day in Riga, but a small multilingual group was excited: poets Jan Kaus, Miia Toivio, Kārlis Vērdiņš, Gunnar Wærness and Poetry Ride staff, producer Jenni Kallionsivu, artistic director Guntars Godiņš and press officer Heidi Iivari gathered in Tõnu Vaher's white and blue minibus. The next eight days were spent as much ... Read more

Poetry Ride festival is touring in Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Norway on 24−29 November with the poets Jan Kaus (EST), Miia Toivio (FIN), Kārlis Vērdiņš (LV) and Gunnar Wærness (NO). The multilingual and multiple program has been compiled by a poet, translator and artistic director of Poetry Ride Guntars Godiņš, who also leads the meetings during the trip. Poetry Rid ... Read more

Kārlis Vērdiņš, a Latvian poet, critic, translator and literature scholar is one of the Poetry Riders of this year. Get to know more about him and the Latvian poetry by an interview: Your doctoral thesis “The Latvian Prose Poem in the 20th Century” (2009) and a book “The Social and Political Dimensions of the Latvian Prose Poem” (2010) investigate the history of ... Read more