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The multilingual poet Natalija Milovanović has firmly established her poetics with her second book of poems, Tuja mehkoba (Foreign Softness), which won the Veronika Prize for the best poetry collection in Slovenia of 2025. Talking about language and identity, she explains that a poem usually arrive…

‘Human life is not more interesting or worthwhile because it occurs in the centers of capitalism.’ That’s the tagline of Peripheries, the online journal co-run by Katja Perat, who joined us for the 40th edition of the Versopolis Podcast. Katja’s early poetry collections, which earned her a cult fol…

What happens when you stop asking AI to sound human and instead ask it to be itself?  That’s the question at the heart of Lily in a Codebox: The Search for AI’s Poetic Voice, a book that began as a casual experiment between two Boulder poets and turned into something neither of them expected. Lee …

Turner Wyatt is an award-winning social entrepreneur and one of the editors of Begin Where You Are: The Colorado Poets Laureate Anthology, a newly released collection spanning over 100 years of Colorado’s most impactful poets. One of the last state laureates was the late Andrea Gibson, about whom a…

Matic Ačko is a former Slovenian poetry slam champion. He explores the dynamic relationship between poetry, body and audience, contrasting the intimacy of the page with the immediacy of performance, discerning between slam and page poets. Slam poetry is an art form that demands presence: when you f…

Senka Gavranov’s practice navigates the terrain of the poetic wild, where poems unlearn their traditional shapes to become forms of critical and communal engagement. This unruliness is both a political gesture and a playful reinvention of the medium, demonstrating that breaking form is a direct way…

Nina Medved is the founder of Dve luni (Two Moons), an institute whose mission is the poetization of the world. Through its work, she mentors young, middle-aged and elderly participants, fostering playfulness through poetry and a wide range of workshops. A firm believer that good things take time, …

Nigerian poet, musician and LGBTQ activist Logan February is one of the most prominent young voices writing today. We explored the urgency and strangeness in Sylvia Plath’s confessional writing, how her work embodies the courage to reveal what is interior without fully explaining it. Logan spoke ab…

Péter Závada is a Hungarian poet, playwright and musician whose artistic journey began in rebellion. What started as a teenage rap project went on to become one of Hungary’s most influential hip-hop groups, AKPH. From there, Péter transitioned into poetry, publishing six acclaimed volumes and earni…