What is a poem? represents the main outline, that is, a connection between all the programmes prepared for World Poetry Day in 2010. Reading poetry, discussions and workshops will focus on the aforementioned question; more precisely, in form of different and ultimately individual answers to this simple, yet fundamental question for poetry.
Every historic period, culture or language, and let us not forget every individual who approaches a poem with a great passion, has faced/faces this question and tried/tries to answer it in their/her/his unique way. Answers are sometimes in form of explicit poetic conventions. Sometimes they are present in form of an effort to comprehend and perceive poetry in order to make it less mysterious. Sometimes this question and its possible answers are not visible in the process of writing poetry. But, even then, we ask that question and look for an answer, even though we are not aware of it.
The question What is a poem? would not be posed in a theoretical way. Our main intention is to feel and reach, if possible, its inner potential: to find what is creative in it. We would try to sense what has always been there, both in the very act of writing a poem and in the phenomenon of experiencing it – our enthusiastic amazement with words which make a poem in a mysterious way.
The initial question What is a poem? would go in many directions during this programme. But, we would always bear in mind the starting point.
Do we make a house out of the words of a poem, a home that will be our safe place in this hostile world we are living in? Or, do words of a poet represent a provocation, a message written inside the walls of the buildings that have been constructed before? Or does a poem stand for both of these things?
Author of the concept: Vojislav Karanovic
In accordance with this branched question What is the song? event will take place through three program units:
I HOUSE IN A LANGUAGE (author's reading + autopoetic response)
Within this segment will be a program of reading and interpreting poetry.
In addition to moderated discussions and reading your own poetry, poets, and will answer the question: What is the song? And will be animated and the audience can also offer your answer to this question.
II VIEW THROUGH WINDOW (applied poetry)
The basic idea of this program is to be unique view through the window of that house in the language. Whether you are looking out, toward the one area where there are no more words (performance) or to the contrary, look through the window in the house itself in the language (interpretations and translations of songs). In this segment perform those authors who are also dealing with poetry, although it does not produce the normal way. Subtle interpreters and translators of poetry, performer (Kajoko Yamasaki), musicians (poetry and rock'n'roll), directors ...
Within this part shall be held and the final program of this year's event: screening of "singing documentary" Hey, October Salon! by Milos Tomic, as well as poetry, singing and playing.
III WORDS OF THE WALL - verse, aphorism, graffiti (activist poetry)
In this part of the program will perform poets of more emphasized engagement, or those whose poetry seems subversive in a given cultural-political context. Poets who write about the immediate reality on open and critical, or humorous and parodic way, who write and handle a bit loutish, but always poetic based. Poets whose songs contain a kind of provocation.
In addition to this segmetu are shown parts of the film Goodbye, how are you? by Boris Mitic and exhibition and presentation of the poet's Computer Passport Control (coordinator Alexander Gatalica).
Artget Gallery, Belgrade Cultural Centre, Republic Square 5/I
Friday, 19th March
House of Words
12.00 – Оpeness, criticism?
Duško Novaković (Belgrade), Radmila Lazić (Belgrade)
Moderator: Vojislav Karanović (Belgrade)
Words on a Wall
17.30 - Poet ' s Custom Border
Exhibition and Computer Animation
18.00 – Verse, Graffito and Aphorism
Đorđe Kuburić, (Belgrade), Vojislav Radovanović (Novi Sad), Aleksandar Baljak (Belgrade)
Moderator: Gojko Božović (Belgrade)
Insert from a Boris Mitić’s film Good Bye, How Do You Do?
Looking through the window
20.00 - Poetry and Rock n Roll:
Slobodan Tisma, Koja, Dejan Vučetić, Bojan Slačala and Boris Vlastelica
Moderator: Marjan Čakarević
Saturday, 20th March
House of Words
12.00 - Two Poets - Two Antologies
Ervin Jahić (Croatia) and Nenad Milošević (Srbija)
13.00 - Presentation of Guest Poets: Nikola Madžirov and Lucija Stupica
Moderators: Ana Ristovic and Dusko Novakovic
18.00 – Stillness, melancholy?
Živorad Nedeljković (Čačak), Tomislav Marinković (Lipolist)
Моderator: Saša Radojčić (Belgrade)
20.00 – Evening of a foreign poet (foreign poets): Uwe Kolbe (Germany)
Моderators: Stevan Tontić (Sarajevo)
Sunday, 21st March
Looking through the window
12.00 - Voices and silence between two languages – Kajoko Yamasaki (poetess and translator)
(Belgrade)
Моderator: Dragan Bošković (Belgrade)
Words on a wall
13.00 - The Challenge of the Reality
Tomislav Marković and Predrag Čurdić
Moderator: Vladimir Arsenić (Belgrade)
17.00 – Presentation: A poet/poetess of new sensibility (Маја Solar, Dragana Mladenović, Dejan Čančarević, Tamara Šuškić, Dejan Čančarević and Bojan Vasić)
Моderator: Мarjan Čakarević (Belgrade)
House of words
20.00 - Poetry reading: Uwe Kolbe (Germany), Slobodan Zubanović (Belgrade), Nikola Vujčić (Belgrade), Аnа Ristović (Belgrade), Petar Matović (Požega), Nikola Madžirov (Skopje, FRY Macedonia), Lucija Stupica (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Stevan Tontić (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Danica Vukićević
Moderator: Vasa Pavković (Belgrade)