Opening, vluchtlijn, visioen: over poëzie en politiek

About the guest speakers

Hannah van Binsbergen (1993, Haarlem) studied philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. In 2016, she published her debut collection Kwaad gesternte, which was awarded the VSB Poetry Prize and the Herman de Coninck Prize for best debut. In February 2020, she published her debut novel, Harpie: a fabulous story about the road from depression to resistance. Harpie was nominated for the Anton Wachter Prize. Hannah is founding editor-in-chief of the socialist journal Jacobin Netherlands. Her second collection, Kokanje, about socialism and idleness, was published in 2022.

Maxime Garcia Diaz (1993) studied Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. In 2019, she won the NK Poetry Slam. She made her debut in 2021 with Het is warm in the hivemind, a collection that was awarded the C. Buddingh’ Prize, the prize for the best poetry debut of the year. Garcia Diaz’s work has previously been published in De Revisor and Deus Ex Machina and on Samplekanon, De Internet Gids, Yes The Void and De Optimist. Garcia Diaz is Dutch and Uruguayan and lives in Amsterdam. She is currently pursuing a master’s in creative writing at the University of Iowa and working on her second collection.

Çağlar Köseoğlu (born 1985) published the chapbook 34 in 2015, a poetic series that critically relates to Turkey’s history and present. His poems have appeared in nY, Samplekanon, De Internet Gids, Kunsttijdschrift Vlaanderen, Cabaret Wittgenstein and Social Text, among others. He teaches at Erasmus University College and the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. In 2020, he published his debut collection Nasleep, which takes the protests around Gezi Park in 2013 as its starting point and explores what has remained of this historic moment when another world seemed up for grabs.

Arno Van Vlierberghe (1990) is a poet. He lives and works in Ghent. His work has appeared, among others, in Het Liegend Konijn, Deus Ex Machina, Dietsche Warande & Belfort, De Revisor, Extra Extra Magazine and on hard//head and Samplekanon. His debut collection Vloekschrift was published in 2017 and nominated for the C. Buddingh’ Prize in 2018, and 2022 saw the publication of his second collection, the J.C. Bloem Prize-nominated Ex Daemon, “the echo of the screams of a century that never began”.