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

The opening of the audioexhibition "The Poetry Ride - the 7 first years" and the poetry reading were a great success this week in Riga. Around 100 people gathered to a brand new building of National Library of Latvia in order to enjoy the opening the exhibition and the poetry reading. The Ambassador of Finland to Latvia, mr. Olli Kantanen pointed out in his speech that offering the pos ... Read more