European Authors Day: "Poetry: Art or Medicine?" A Poetic Meeting with Varna Poets

European Authors Day: "Poetry: Art or Medicine?" A poetic meeting with Varna (and possibly other) poets.

What makes poetry poetry? The rhyme? The rhythm? The imagery? Or something that doesn't even have a name? Is every poem poetry? Does it have to be rhymed to be good? And why do the old and the new sound so different?
Let's discuss it.
On November 16, Monday, at 18:30.
NCh "Iskra-1924" (Captain Raycho Nikolov St. No. 103, Varna)
we will freely talk about the most difficult: what transforms speech into poetry. And about something else that we rarely say out loud: how poems help. To the one who writes them. And to the one who reads them.

Because poetry also works as medicine. It names what we feel but cannot say. It helps us bear something difficult without explaining it. Sometimes a few words reach where an entire conversation does not.
We will not seek a single correct answer. We will argue, we will read old and new verses, we will compare and doubt together. There are no wrong opinions here. There are only voices.

The discussion will feature Varna poets. We won't count them because everyone has time to join. And you too.
All poets and all who love poetry are welcome. Bring your own poems, questions, and favorite lines.

NCh "Iskra-1924", Captain Raycho Nikolov St. No. 103, Varna
November 16, 2026 · 18:30.
🎟 Free entry