Poets from all over the world will be attending ” Poet Gallery III”

On Monday, the third edition of “Poet Gallery” and international festival of Poetry opened in Durres. About 80 poets from 20 countries bring contemporary poetry to this festival. Apart from the Albanian poets, authors from Greece, Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, the USA, Russia, the UK, England, Italy etc. Regarded, on the whole, as a spiritual movement rather than merely a festival of contemporary poetry, “The Poetry Festival” is the idea of the well known Albanian poet Arian Leka. “Compared to one year ago, “The Poetry Festival III” now has a far broader participation,” Leka, Director of the Festival told the reporters. Forty poets have come this year from Albania, and thirty of them come for the first time, from Greece-Athina Papadakis, from Macedonia, Milovan Stefanovski and Resul Shabani, from Bulgaria Katia Ermenkova, from Romania, Gabriella Eftimie and Ion Muresan, from Spain Eduardo Moga, from Turkey Haydar Ergulen, from the UK Fiona Sampson, from Germany Matrion Poschmann, from Austria Hans Raimund etc. One interesting manner to bring people closer to poetry is “Poen-SMS.” In cooperation with the mobile phone company AMC, during the days of the festival, select lines of poetry will reach the phone numbers of AMC customers, from participants in this activity. Like the other two previous editions, winners will be chosen too. Apart from the Cups, “The Ring of the Poetry Festival,”, “Liburna” and “Nosi” the prize “Onufri” will also be awarded for the best literary critique.