Plamen Press - Where Words Ignite
06/27/2026
📚❤️ Plamen Press is excited to announce that we will be participating in the Capital Love LitFest on Sunday, June 28, at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda!
Hosted by the Washington Writers' Publishing House, the Capital Love LitFest is an all-day literary celebration featuring workshops, panel discussions, readings, and conversations centered on the themes of love, healing, hope, and justice. The festival brings together writers, readers, publishers, and literary organizations from across the DMV for a day of community and inspiration.
Come visit the Plamen Press - Where Words Ignite table to learn more about our latest publications, including People and Trees: A Trilogy by Akram Aylisli, a finalist for the 2026 EBRD Literature Prize, and our growing catalog of literature in translation from underrepresented countries.
🎥 In addition, LIT-UP Live will be on site filming and livestreaming portions of the festival, helping bring these important literary conversations to audiences beyond the event itself. Folks who would like to livestream the festival's Reading Jam at 3:15 pm can see it at https://youtube.com/live/aHf0s7pfcIw
📍 The Writer’s Center, Bethesda, MD
đź“… Sunday, June 28, 2026
⏰ 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
We look forward to seeing friends, readers, writers, and fellow book lovers there!
Miniatures is a collection of short poems by Carsten René Nielsen accompanied by illustrations from Mette Norrie that meet at the crossroads of the seen and unseen, blending whimsy and absurdity into a sequence of brief, wonder-driven experiences. Drawing from the 20th century European legacies of Max Jacob, Jean Arp, and Benjamin Péret, and the later American poetry of Charles Simic and Mark Strand, Nielsen invites readers into strange yet strangely familiar spaces—where trees grow from cracked plates, readers use hand mirrors instead of magnifying glasses, and snow has been assigned its own ministry. Mastering spare yet highly controlled language, Keplinger’s translation preserves the lyricism of the original, allowing each poem to stand alone while collectively creating a fragmented, surreal vision of reality. Each miniature is a poetic fragment, often only a few lines long, but rich in metaphor and suggestion. Some pieces read like parables infused with satire and humor, while others resemble dreams. Mette Norrie’s illustrations naturally extend the book’s visual and perceptual scope, enlarging the reader’s grasp of what is real, where it encounters what is imaginable.
06/12/2026
Plamen Press is excited to be participating in Washington Writers Publishing House's inaugural Capital Lit Fest on June 28 at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland!
We are proud to support this exciting new literary festival and celebrate the incredible writers, publishers, and readers who make our region's literary community so vibrant.
🎥 We'll be filming and live-streaming portions of the festival so that audiences near and far can take part in the experience.
đź“– Visit the Plamen Press table at the book fair to browse our latest publications, learn about our mission of bringing literature in translation to English-language readers, and discover voices from around the world.
We look forward to seeing old friends, meeting new readers, and sharing a great day of books and conversation!
đź“Ť June 28 đź“Ť Capital Lit Fest đź“Ť The Writer's Center, Bethesda, MD
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05/30/2026
Just a friendly reminder that from 1:00–2:00 PM, Roman Kostovski, publisher of Plamen Press - Where Words Ignite, will be reading from his translations of Czech literature, as well as North Macedonian poetry from Sisyphus and I by Ilja Kostovski, translated by former San Francisco Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman and published by Plamen Press.
Join us at Kensington Row Bookshop for an afternoon of literature in translation and voices from across cultures.
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