The Poet of Fryslân, Nyk de Vries, wrote three prose poems for the exhibition ‘Eye to eye with the war’ of the Fries Museum. The video performance of the prose poems’ Illegal, ‘Book’ and ‘Dora’, about his mother, his father and his neighbor in Groningen, respectively, can be viewed on the website of the Fries Museum and below.
‘Less WiFi, more poetry’ is the latest poem by Arjan Hut as Poet laureate of Fryslân. Can also be read today in the Friesch Dagblad, the Leeuwarder Courant and on the Omrop Fryslân website.
Arjan Hut (Drachten, 1976) was officially appointed as the new Poet of Fryslân by deputy Eke Folkerts today at the Explore the North festival in Leeuwarden. The appointment is for two years. Arjan Hut is the fourth Poet Fan of Fryslân and the successor to Sigrid Kingma.