As The Prague Post reported Feb. 23, a transnational project entitled “Letters to Milosz” is underway throughout Europe under the auspices of HALMA, the European Association of Writing Centers. But just what is Milosz’s legacy, and is the Nobel Prize winning Polish poet, who died in 2004, still relevant today?

The Prague Post discussion “Are Books Dead?” took place Nov. 17 before a crowd of nearly 100 people at the National Gallery. The event stretched into the night, with plenty of questions from the audience and animated debate taking place after the panel discussion had concluded.

There has been a great deal of discussion lately about the future of print media, especially books and newspapers. How can books and print newspapers compete with digital media and the Internet? This topic will be taken up at a discussion hosted by The Prague Post Thursday, November 18 at 7pm at the National Gallery in Holešovice. This is the third in a series of prefatory notes leading up to the discussion.

There has been a great deal of discussion lately about the future of print media, especially books and newspapers. How can books and print newspapers compete with digital media and the Internet? This topic will be taken up at a discussion hosted by The Prague Post Thursday, November 18 at 7pm at the National Gallery in Holešovice. This is the second in a series of prefatory notes leading up to the discussion.

There has been a great deal of discussion lately about the future of print media, especially books and newspapers. How can books and print newspapers compete with digital media and the Internet? This topic will be taken up at a discussion hosted by The Prague Post Thursday, November 18 at 7pm at the National Gallery in Holešovice. This is the first in a series of prefatory notes leading up to the discussion.

This year’s Poetry Hearings, an annual English language poetry festival in Berlin, had a strong Prague contingent, with one performing poet and several audience members making the trek to Germany.

Full Metal Poem, the most interesting and well-executed English language literary journal to emerge in Europe in recent memory, saw its first issue released earlier this year. The journal is something of a combined, satellite effort, involving poet Cralan Kelder, based in Amsterdam, and poet Mark Terrill, based outside of Hamburg.

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Czech Romantic poet Karel Hynek Macha. The event is being celebrated with a series of concerts, exhibitions, performances and book launches which will take place throughout the year. Especially notable is the release of a new edition of Macha’s poem in English translation, published by Twisted Spoon Press.

Halloween has always been an inspiring time for poets. Here are a few classic Halloween poems and a few unlikely ones as well.

The Paris Review has released all of its author interviews free on its website. Stein’s radical decision to do so puts more than 50 years of interviews with leading novelists, poets and critics – an invaluable resource – at the disposal of online readers.