Liszt Institutes and Hungarian diplomatic missions celebrate Hungarian Poetry Day with short films, literary readings, exhibitions, and book presentations.
On Hungarian Poetry Day several Liszt Institutes will share Hungarian poems on their social media platforms. In Seoul, Attila József’s works will be presented, and in Tallinn, the Madách Theatre's production of The Two Unique - The Great Loves of Frigyes Karinthy - will be screened online. While in Amman Hungarians living in Jordan and students studying in Hungarian will recite excerpts from poems.
In Tallinn, Hungarian poems will be printed on colourful stickers, which will be placed by the entrance of the institute and can be taken by passers-by. In Vienna, colourful post-it poems will cover the walls and windows of the Cultural Institute, just like in Berlin, where post-it poetry has almost become a tradition by now.
The Collegium Hungaricum Belgrade is presenting a book with two studies and the Serbian translation of the Hungarian –national anthem published in 2021.
In Sfântu Gheorghe, the Institute is preparing an afternoon event with female poets – Emese Egyed and Melinda Varga.
The Liszt Institute’s library in Helsinki is hosting a reading challenge from the works of Hungarian writers and poets in Finnish on the Institute’s Facebook page.
This year, the Liszt Institute Sofia is organising a Hungarian-Bulgarian Poetry Competition on the occasion of Poetry Day for the 28th time. This year's event will focus on two poets: Gyula Illyés on the Hungarian side and Blaga Dimitrova on the Bulgarian side. There will also be readings of Hungarian poems organised by the Liszt Institutes in Bratislava and New York and at the Collegium Hungaricum Rome. In Rome, the event will be complemented by an informal discussion about the poems of Lőrinc Szabó, as well as the illustrations of the graphic artist Orsolya Csilléry - whose work was inspired by the Hungarian poet.
The Liszt Institute London is presenting the English translation of Ádám Bodor's novel - The Birds of Verhovina - and the recently launched English-language literary journal Continental. The institute will also host an exhibition, a book presentation and a jazz music performance, which will focus on the book - Fertile Misunderstanding.
To mark Hungarian Poetry Day, the Liszt Institute Stuttgart is hosting János Lackfi, whose poems will be performed by his daughter - Dorottya Lackfi.
The Consulate General in Cluj-Napoca is organizing a slam poetry evening entitled Tintatér, in which slammers from Transylvania will try an improvisational genre called experijam.
The Hungarian language guest teacher in St Petersburg is inviting the public to a joint poetry reading and interpretation at the Mayakovsky LibraryFollowing a long tradition in Chicago, the local diplomatic mission celebrates the day with folk dance and poetry reading organised together with the Free Hungarian Reformed Church. In Washington, the Hungarian Embassy is organising a „poetry street” at the Kossuth House, where visitors can read the English translations of Hungarian poems.