THE GRAND DUCHY OF POETRY 2025

The Grand Duchy of Poetry 2025

The Borderland is happy to announce the 2025 edition of the Grand Duchy of Poetry.

THE GRAND DUCHY OF POETRY

Krasnogruda / Sejny

Maćkowa Ruda / Bierżałowce / Studzieniczna

29 June – 2 July 2025

29 June (Sunday)
4:00 PM

THE APPRENTICE OF SILENCE
An evening of poetry by Krzysztof Czyżewski with the participation of Marianna Kiyanovska, poet and translator from Lviv

Host: Agnieszka Foryś

Sejny Jazz Cooperative, the Old Yeshiva in Sejny

30 June (Monday)
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

POESIS LOCI OF ANDRZEJ STRUMIŁŁO – Strumiłło Gallery, Maćkowa Ruda 17

WHAT’S NEW FROM LITHUANIA – A meeting with the poetry of Gintaras Grajauskas
Host: Agnieszka Rembiałkowska

SPOKEN, STRENGTHENED – poems read by: Rafał Gawin, Justyna Kulikowska, Marcin Mokry

5:00 PM
IS POETRY NECESSARY FOR SALVATION?
A Master’s Lecture by Prof. Piotr Śliwiński

The Song on Porcelain Café, Miłosz Manor in Krasnogruda

8:00 PM
THE MYSTERY OF POESIS
Collective reading of Czesław Miłosz

Lithuanian songs from the Borderland performed by Jowita Janczulewicz and Sylwia Piwowarska from Żegary

The amphitheatre of the Invisible Bridge in Krasnogruda

1 July (Tuesday)
10:00 AM
BEAUTY AND HELL
Anna Piwkowska’s tale about Beata Obertyńska

The Song on Porcelain Café, Miłosz Manor in Krasnogruda

1:00 PM
POESIS LOCI OF JANINA OSEWSKA – Studzieniczna
– Zofia Piłasiewicz speaks about “Janka’s Pine”
SPOKEN, STRENGTHENED – poems read by: Stanisław Jaglarz, Julija Musakowska, Erdmute Sobaszek, Anna Piwkowska


  • ACCOMPANYING EVENTS

7:00 PM

THE CHRONICLES OF SEJNY – a theatre performance

Tickets: 45/50 PLN

The White Synagogue, Sejny