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SUMMARY:Multilingual Poetry Open Stage
DESCRIPTION:Hello everyone. Due to some health issues with Marko’s family\, we were unable to hold the Multilingual Open Mic for July. We will be coming back this August\, and we encourage everyone to bring their work to share. \nSince Marko’s family is under the weather\, we encourage you to write and share your sentiments to our host so he knows how we care about him during his time of need. We’ll start at 7PM and enjoy the amphitheater before the end of the summer.
URL:https://pragueliterarycalendar.com/calendar/multilingual-poetry-open-stage-2/
LOCATION:Kafe Nuzky Papir\, Kafe Nuzky Papi
CATEGORIES:Languages,Music,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Poetry Talks Prague with Sakari Happonen. The Plague Column by Jaroslav Seifert.
DESCRIPTION:The venue has been changed to Restaurace Mon Ami\, due to possible rain. We will meet inside the restaurant at 6:30 PM. Adress: Roháčova 135/20\, 130 00 Praha 3-Žižkov \nCzech has an exceptionally rich literary history that makes it the incredible country we all love today. One of the writers that forms Czech literary identity is Jaroslav Seifert. \n\nJaroslav Seifert was born on Bořivojova in Žižkov. We will meet at Parukářka to discuss The Plague Column poem from the collection The Plague Column here: https://allpoetry.com/The-Plague-Colemn. You can read these in any language you can find. Sakari is reading the Finnish translation\, we will discuss in English.\n\n\nWE’RE STILL LOOKING FOR A LOCAL CZECH READER TO JOIN US AND READ FROM THE PLAGUE COLUMN (MOROVÝ SLOUP) IN CZECH DURING THE EVENT. IF YOU OR ANYONE YOU KNOW WOULD BE INTERESTED\, PLEASE LET US KNOW  \n  \n\nThrough discussion we use each other to help us understand the poem. You do not need to be an expert\, you do not need to be that familiar with poetry\, all you need is curiosity and through discussion we can learn about ourselves\, our cultures and Seifert and the Czech identity.\n\nAny questions please reach out to contact@pragueliterarycalendar.com or on the facebook event. If there are any changes to the event we will write on Prague Literary Calendar event page.\n\nMore information and context below from Sakari Happonen\, a Finnish poet and writer in residence.\n__________________________________________________\n\nWe invite you to join us for an evening of poetry readings and discussion about the Czech Nobel Prize in Literature laureate\, the grand old man of Czech poetry and a poet of death and desire\, Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986)\, in his birthplace of Žižkov. Seifert was a poet of the people\, whose memorial stands at the Lipanská tram stop. He was also a key figure in Poetism\, an important poetic and artistic movement in Czechoslovakia that formed part of the avant-garde. \n\nDuring the evening\, we will discuss the section “The Plague Column” (pages 95–104) from Jaroslav Seifert’s poetry collection The Plague Column (Morový sloup). The reading material will be available on this event page. Please send us a message if you have any questions or encounter any problems downloading or opening the material.\n\nThe discussion will take place in English. We encourage you to read the poem(s) in your native language and bring your own unique perspectives and interpretations to the discussion. Sakari Happonen will bring a Finnish translation of Seifert’s The Plague Column (Ruttopylväs\, translated by Hannu Ylilehto\, 1985) to the evening. It is currently the only Czech poetry collection intended for adult readers to have been translated into Finnish. \n\n\nDuring the event\, we will hear a reading of “The Plague Column” in at least two different languages. We are still looking for a local Prague reader who could read the poem in its original language (Czech)\, so if you or anyone you know might be interested\, please get in touch.  \n  \n\n\nIt is important to note that this is not a lecture\, but an evening where we discover and learn from each other. Bring your own knowledge\, perspectives\, and curiosity to the discussion! As the discussion will take place in a group setting\, it is important to treat everyone with respect and listen attentively. This evening dedicated to Seifert offers a unique and rare opportunity to better understand the movements — poetic and otherwise — that have shaped the Czech Republic into what it is today. \n  \n\n\nCzech writer Bohumil Hrabal once said that young poets write about death\, while old fogies write about sex. In Seifert’s case\, both are equally true\, and nowhere else is this more apparent than in his collection The Plague Column (1978). If possible\, we highly encourage all attendees to read the entire collection\, rather than just the “The Plague Column” section\, as this will provide the reader with a deeper understanding of the collection’s topics and themes as a whole. Any worthwhile poetry collection strives to be more than the sum of its parts\, with warp threads running beneath the reading experience — a kind of underlying dramaturgy that binds the poems together. The Plague Column is perhaps Seifert’s most cohesive collection\, in which individual poems build upon one another to create a more unified whole. Send us a message if you would like to read the entire collection; we can provide a copy. \n  \n\nFURTHER READING:\nJoseph Grim Feinberg has written on Seifert and the Czech interwar avant-garde for those who want delve deeper: https://ojs-gr.zrc-sazu.si/pri…/article/download/9784/9201\nAbout the Seifert monument: https://umeleckepamatky.udu.cas.cz/…/101-monument-to…\nNobel Prize website — four complete poems:Autobiography / An Umbrella from Piccadilly / Fragment of a Letter / To Be a Poethttps://www.nobelprize.org/…/liter…/1984/seifert/poetry/\nkresadlo.cz —http://kresadlo.cz/seifert.htm\nRadio Prague International —https://english.radio.cz/czech-books-you-must-read…/14\nPoetry Dispatch blog —https://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/…/jaroslav…/\nAllPoetry.comhttps://allpoetry.com/Jaroslav-Seifert\nPoetry Foundation — biographical page only\, no full poems:https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jaroslav-seifert\nKavárna Slavia (Seifert’s poem about Cafe Slavia\, and the importance of french poet Apollinaire for the Czech poets)https://praha.mkc.cz/…/po-stopach…/kavarna-slavia
URL:https://pragueliterarycalendar.com/calendar/poetry-talks-prague-with-sakari-happonen-jaroslav-seifert/
LOCATION:Mon Ami Zizkov\, Mon Ami Zizkov
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:MISTROVSTVÍ ČR V DUO SLAMU 2026 | Praha\, Loď Tajemství | Anatol\, Tyč\, Katuna ad.
DESCRIPTION:💣 Jedinečné mistrovství ČR v duo slamu (slam poetry dvojic) na lodi bratří Formanů. \n👉 6 dvojic se v časovém limitu 5 minut utká o prestižní mistrovský titul a finanční odměnu.\nO vítězi rozhodují diváci. Poezie jako show! \n🔶 Pouze 150 vstupenek (Zn. vždy vyprodáno)!\n🔶 Všechny vstupenky jsou k sezení!\n🔶 Kryté hlediště!\n🔶 Zvýhodněný předprodej! \n🎤 Vystupuje absolutní špička CZ scény: \n✅ TYČ + DRŽGREŠLE (obhájkyně loňského titulu)\n✅ ANATOL SVAHILEC + TIM POSTOVIT\n✅ PEŘINKA + ZÁTĚŽ\n✅ METODĚJ CONSTANTINE + LOJZA KVÁDR\n✅ KATUNA + TEENA\n✅ RŮNY + DANY \nmoderuje: BOB HÝSEK \n🎫 Předprodej GoOut:\nstudenti\, ZTP: 300.-\nplnocenné: 360.-\nNa místě (všichni): 500.- \nAkce je spolufinancována Ministerstvem kultury ČR v rámci projektu SLAM POETRY CZ 2026
URL:https://pragueliterarycalendar.com/calendar/mistrovstvi-cr-v-duo-slamu-2026-praha-lod-tajemstvi-anatol-tyc-katuna-ad/
LOCATION:Loď Tajemství\, Loď Tajemství
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Poetry Talks Prague: You are the problem
DESCRIPTION:The theme: You are the problem. \nYou can take this to mean what you like. We thought it was amusing to bring in poems that when you read it you think the poet is the problem. But let the theme go wherever you like\, we’re all discovering. \nPost them to our facebook page\, email them to contact@pragueliterarycalendar.com and I’ll post them here. Let us know you are attending the event so I can make a space for you. \nA poem means something different every time you return to it. Poetry Talks Prague puts people with entirely different lives in front of the same words at the same time. What you get out these discussion you could never get alone. \nAll poems for reading on this URL 
URL:https://pragueliterarycalendar.com/calendar/poetry-talks-prague-you-are-the-problem/
LOCATION:Kavárna Kaaba\, Kavárna Kaaba
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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