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• 09/04/2026

Transpoesie 26: Open Call”

EUNIC Brussels invites poets, poet-performers and poet-translators to participate in this year’s edition of Transpoesie: Where Voices Meet, a thematic exploration of language, space, and poetic resistance through and within translation.

We are looking for poets whose work engage with: • translation as creative practice;   • local histories, ecological  knowledge, or community memory;  •  geography, displacement,  or peripheral territories;  •  multilingual practices, code-switching,  accent, or linguistic friction;  •  experimental, performative, or oral  approaches to poetry ; •  minor, endangered, migrant, hybrid,  or “unofficial” languages; •  local foregrounds, situated voice and untranslatable experiences;

We particularly welcome those who work at the intersection of language and space, writers whose poetry emerge from borderlands, diasporas, rural or marginal regions, and in doing so explore how meaning shifts across cultures, histories, and territories/regions. Similarly, we particularly welcome writers whose languages are considered vulnerable or endangered within their respective countries or regions. Transpoesie is interested in poetic practices that embrace fragmentation, repetition, silence, multilingual layering, and productive misunderstanding. We seek voices  that are authentic and thought-provoking.