Take a seat at the main reading of\u00a0poets Caleb Femi and Dalia Taha. This is the moment to get to know both the poetry and the person behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Caleb Femi (1990, NGA+GBR) is a poet, filmmaker, and photographer whose first collections immediately won major awards. He writes about growing up on a social housing estate in South London, its architecture, and its nightlife. In The Wickedest<\/em>, the reader follows, in a poetic long take, one night at a London shoob, where living rooms transform into clubs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dalia Taha (1986, PSE) was born in Berlin but grew up and works in Palestine. She gained recognition as a poet, teacher, and playwright, with work staged internationally, from European theatres to the West Bank. In her poetry, she interweaves language and history with the reality of life in Palestine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Host Jelle van Riet opens the main reading with a short introductory conversation. After that, both poets will read from their own work, sharing a personal selection of brand-new poems, their response to the festival theme, or a surprising gem from their oeuvre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"event_date":"2026-06-06","footnotes":""},"venue":[265],"event_type":[97],"route":[],"class_list":["post-845","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","venue-lantarenvenster-1","event_type-reading"],"acf":{"event_location":265,"event_location_source":{"label":"Locatie","type":"taxonomy","formatted_value":265},"event_category":[97],"event_category_source":{"label":"Categorie","type":"taxonomy","formatted_value":[97]},"language":["english"],"language_source":{"label":"Voertaal","type":"select","formatted_value":[{"value":"english","label":"Engels"}]},"spoken_languages":"English, Serbian","spoken_languages_source":{"label":"Gesproken talen","type":"text","formatted_value":"English, Serbian"},"language_label":"spoken","language_label_source":{"label":"Label","type":"select","formatted_value":"Gesproken talen"},"subtitles":["english","dutch"],"subtitles_source":{"label":"Boventiteling","type":"select","formatted_value":["Engels","Nederlands"]},"has_interpreter":false,"has_interpreter_source":{"label":"Tolk NGT\/Schrijftolk","type":"true_false","formatted_value":false},"poets":[390,412],"poets_source":{"label":"Dichters","type":"relationship","formatted_value":[{"ID":390,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2026-03-02 17:14:29","post_date_gmt":"2026-03-02 16:14:29","post_content":"\n Caleb Femi (1990, NGA+GBR) is a poet, filmmaker and photographer who won major prizes with his first two collections. Femi writes about growing up on a housing estate in South London, its architecture and nightlife culture. In his latest collection, The Wickedest<\/em>, the reader experiences, in a poetic long take of a single night, a London Shoob. These are parties where living rooms turn into a club. Because Shoobs, besides being a place for music and dance, are also safe spaces for the Black-British community to share stories and support, Femi indirectly offers a glimpse into the harsh realities some attendees move through outside the door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Where you might know this poet from<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dalia Taha (1986, PSE) was born in Berlin, but raised and based in Palestine. She gained recognition as a poet, teacher and playwright of works staged internationally, from European stages to the West Bank. In her poems she intertwines language and history with the reality of life in Palestine. The titles of her poems often begin with Enter<\/em>, after which she places a subject into our field of vision as if a character is stepping onto the stage: fear, love, life under occupation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Where you might know this poet from<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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