Tom Bresemann Tom Bresemann (b. 1978 in Berlin) writes, organises and conceives poetry and literature from writers’ conferences to talk and reading series to new formats for literature. In 2006 he founded the Lettrétage in Berlin-Kreuzberg together with Moritz Malsch and Katharina Deloglu and is still involved in it. His own texts have been appearing since 2004 in magazines and anthologies such as randnummer, poet, Lyrik von Jetzt 2, Jahrbuch der Lyrik und Wat los, Parzen?. He has published three books of poe ... more Tom Bresemann © privat
Yevgeniy Breyger In sure rhythms Yevgeniy Breyger (b. 1989 in Charkow) creates aesthetic “kingdoms” in his poems. Yevgeniy Breyger studied Creative Writing and Cultural Journalism in Hildesheim, Literary Writing at the Deutsches Literaturinstitut (German Literature Institute) Leipzig and Curatorial Studies at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. He has published in such magazines and anthologies as Jahrbuch der Lyrik, Lyrik von jetzt 3, Bella triste and Edit. He was an editor o ... more Yevgeniy Breyger © Gabriela Cuzepan
Breyten Breytenbach Breyten Breytenbach (*1939, South Africa) is one of South Africa’s most important living poets. The long-time anti-Apartheid activist abandoned South Africa in 1959 and was involved in the foundation of the “Okhela” protest movement in Paris in 1962. He was convicted of being a terrorist during a trip to South Africa with a forged passport and from 1975 to 1982 spent time in South African prisons. He became a French citizen following his release. In his most popular works, Breytenbach tackles th ... more
Breyten Breytenbach Writer and painter Breyten Breytenbach was born in Bonnievale, South Africa, in 1939. He left his homeland in 1959 to study in Paris, where he became an active opponent of apartheid. By marrying a Frenchwoman of Vietnamese origin be violated the South African regime’s race laws and he was forbidden to return. In 1975 he went back to South Africa on a false passport but was betrayed and arrested and spent the next seven years in prison as a terrorist. On his release he returned to Paris and took ... more Foto: gezett.de
Lars-Arvid Brischke (de) Lars-Arvid Brischke veröffentlichte in zahlreichen Literaturzeitschriften, arbeitet gemeinsam mit Dichterkollegen und liest auf diversen Lesebühnen. Er war im Jahr 2000 Teilnehmer des open mike. ... more
Paulo Henriques Britto Paulo Henriques Britto (born 1951, Brazil) is a translator, poet and essayist, and is Professor of Literature and Translation at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. In Britto's poems, a penchant for metalanguage, method and strict literary forms merges with concrete poetry. He is close in the content of his poems to the "Geração Mimeógrafo", a generation of writers who propagate literary spontaneity and the use of everyday situations as subject with everyday language. Like Be ... more
Bleu Broode Bleu Broode was born in Hamburg in 1989 and is one of those slam poets who have an immense amount of stage experience although they are still very young. He has won the Hessen, Saxony and German slam championships and has since been at home on stages all over Europe. With great variety and strong images he unfolds his view of things to his audiences. But his inexhaustible energy and full physical presence are not just restricted to the stage – on the football pitch he plays in the writers’ natio ... more
Marc André Brouillette Marc André Brouillette (*1969 in Montreal, Canada) has written several volumes of poetry. His works have been published in collections, anthologies and schoolbooks as well as in international magazines. He regularly participates in readings and literary colloquia. In addition, he works with various magazines and media projects in the area of contemporary literature. Publications include: "Les champs marins" (1991), "Carnets de brigance" (1994), "Vent devant" (2001), ... more
Jericho Brown In his latest collection of poems, The Tradition (2019), Jericho Brown, who grew up in Louisiana, writes about the ambivalence of living in a country characterised by mass shootings and violent attacks on unarmed people by the police. In his poems, the body forms a place of refuge for living and surviving. At the heart of The New Testament (2014) Brown looks at what it is like living in the USA today as a black gay man. The collection won him the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was listed by the L ... more Jericho Brown © Mike Doyle
Tsead Bruinja Tsead Bruinja (born in Rinsumageest, the Netherlands in 1974) is a poet and lives in Amsterdam. His 2000 debut was De wizers yn it read (The meters in the red), a collection written in Frisian. His first collection in Dutch, Dat het zo hoorde (The way it should sound), was published in 2003 and was nominated for the Jo Peters Poetry Prize the following year. Bruinja edits anthologies, writes criticism and organises literary events, such as the open-air festival Dichters in de Prinsentuin (Poets ... more Tsead Bruinja (c) Tineke de Lange
Tsead Bruinja Tsead Bruinja (b. 1974 in Rinsumageest, Netherlands) is a poet writing in Dutch and West Frisian and lives in Amsterdam. His debut collection in 2000 was De wizers yn it read, written in Frisian. His first volume of poems in Dutch, Dat het zo hoorde, was published in 2003. Bruinja edits anthologies, writes criticism and organises literary events such as the Dichters open air festival in de Prinsentuin (poets in the prince’s garden). He often collaborates with artists in other media, such as the ... more Tsead Bruinja © Hilde Brandsma
Geert Buelens Geert Buelens (born 1971 Duffel, Belgium) is a poet, essayist and lecturer. He has been intensively engaging with poetry from the period of the First World War for years, and has published numerous academic works and poetry anthologies on the topic, such as the almost 700-page poetry anthology "Het lijf in slijk geplant" (The body planted in the mud). This Spring Suhrkamp published his encompassing study “Europas Dichter und der Erste Weltkrieg” (Europe’s Poets and the First World War), which lo ... more Geert Buelens Foto: Bozar