Poeteka hosts second poetry conference

TIRANA, Sept. 14 – Meta (L) fora-MetaF (L) ora was the topic of the second conference of this year’s edition of the Poeteka international poetry festival held in the Metropol theatre in Tirana from September 12 to 14. Differently from previous editions, this year’s seventh edition of the festival is being held as a series of conferences with PhD candidates and professors guiding them discussing different topics. The opening conference of the festival was held last July in the southern town of Permet, where dozens of researchers, poets and artists gathered. This year’s topic of the festival focuses on the artist’s relationship with creative and intellectual freedom under conditions of limited freedom and lack of aesthetics pluralism.” Last year, dozens of international and Albanian poets participated in the sixth edition of the Poeteka poetry and literature festival. The festival, whose main theme was “the Balkans observed in problems of contemporary art, communication, cultural integration,” took place in three cities, Durres, Tirana and Berat bringing together poets, painters, musicians and guests. Participants come from 20 different countries including Austria, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Israel, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Albania, Switzerland, Turkey and the U.S took part in the festival. Special tribute was also paid to Mother Teresa who had her 100th birth anniversary and late poet Martin Camaj.