Experience words and music from around the globe at the World Poetry Salon, a new series presented in partnership with Limelight Poetry, a local nonprofit dedicated to promoting world poetry. Each event features readings by a celebrated poet set to live music by a musician of the same cultural background.
This salon will feature a reading by Aleš Šteger accompanied by musician Jure Tori. A printout will be available for attendees to follow along with Šteger's poetry during the reading. Following the reading, Šteger will be interviewed by event host Patricio Ferrari.
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Aleš Šteger
Aleš Šteger has published numerous collections of poetry, essays and prose, and moves between different literary worlds and textual genres. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages. He himself translates from German, English and Spanish, including works by Gottfried Benn, Walter Benjamin, Ingeborg Bachmann and César Vallejo. Šteger is the recipient of prestigious international awards such as Prix Max Jacob Etranger (France, 2025), Premio Siglo de Oro (Mexico, 2024), the Alfred Kolleritsch Memorial Prize (Austria, 2021), the Horst Bienek Prize (Germany, 2016) and the BTBA Award for the best translated book of the year in the USA (2011). He has been awarded the Chevalier des Artes et Lettres by the French Minister of Culture. He is a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin and the German Academy of Language and Literature.
“Nikola Madzirov is one of the finest poets in Europe today! I admire his genius on every page of his poetry book. He is a visionary, a true poet whom all poetry lovers in the world should know. ”
Charles Simic
“Madzirov's poems are like Expressionist paintings: filled with thick, energetic streaks they seem to emerge from the imagination and to return to it right away, like night animals caught in the headlights of a car. “We are the remnants of another age” — Nikola Madzirov succeeds in convincing us. ”
Adam Zagajewski
“Nikola Madzirov's poems seem to spring from elsewhere in time, reflective of a preternaturally wise and attentive sensibility. As we read these poems, they begin to inhabit us, and we are the better for having opened ourselves to them. Madzirov is a rare soul and a true poet.”
Carolyn Forché
“I liked Madzirov's poetry immensely, its candour, its invention, its darkness. It is like discovering a new planet in the solar system of the imagination!”
Mark Strand
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Patricio Ferrari
Patricio Ferrari (polyglot poet, translator, editor) was born in Buenos Aires and left home at sixteen, when he began a lifelong journey across continents and languages. He has since shaped a multilingual poetics that explores belonging, displacement, and the in-between. In 2025, he was awarded the Fence Modern Poets Series Prize for Mud Songs, the first volume of Elsehere, a trilogy charting how each language molds and reveals a different facet of the self—what he calls heterophony, the process of self-othering through an adopted tongue.
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World Poetry Salon V:
Aleš Šteger, Jure Tori, and Patricio Ferrari
Jure Tori
Jure Tori is known far beyond his country's borders as "an extraordinary accordionist" and "a storyteller on the accordion". For more than 20 years he has been playing a wide variety of styles, from tango and jazz to ethno music and hard rock. He has developed his own style, which he remains true to in his compositions: sometimes melancholic, other times lively and joyful. He has co-written and co-written more than 20 CDs. In recent years, he has performed in German-speaking countries, mainly with the Austrian double bassist Ewald Oberleitner, and in Slovenia with the legendary rock thrash band Orleki.
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