Festival Lecture series

Is it possible to teach how to write poetry? Or - "correctly" to write poetry? Since 1910, when N. Gumilev and S. Gorodetsky created the "Workshop of poets," the affirmative answer to these questions is no longer in doubt. Many institutes and studios operated on the principle of teaching from the masters: from Brusov's Literary and Art Institute to Arseny Tarkovsky's "Magistral" studio, from the State Literary Courses in Moscow in the 1920s and 30s to the Gorky Literary Institute.

This lecture will deal with one of the mysterious and controversial episodes in the history of Russian poetry. In the mid-1850s, "Nemaster" rules the poetry of "Novichok", and the famous prose writer and not the most successful poet Ivan Turgenev confidently and inexorably rules the poetry of the future absolute classic of Russian lyrics, Athanasius Fet. How are these events interesting to us today? Why, a century and a half later, should anyone writing or reading poetry in Russian know about them?

Answers - at the lecture by Professor of Russian State Humanities University and Director of the State Museum of the History of Russian Literature named after V.I. Dal, D. P. Bak.

How do you keep yourself intellectually poetic and develop it? Is it possible to sharpen your apparatus of perception? Is so-called continuous inspiration possible? What is natural synesthesia and what to do if you are not a synesthete? "Lifehacks for Continuers.

Led by Inga Kuznetsova, poet, prose writer, translator, creator of the studio for the literary development of adolescents, host of the workshop "School of young poets in Sochi.