Poertry Place (A.R)

Poetry Place  is a non-profit literary organization, located in Jerusalem. Poetry Place occupies a unique spot in Israel’s literary landscape, and especially in Jerusalem’s inner city life. The scope and variety of activities sponsored by Poetry Place is quite broad: “Meter al Meter” (a Jerusalem poetry festival, which is entering its eight year, poetryplace-festival.org); the largest-scale interdisciplinary poetry reading performances and writing workshops in Israel; video documentation project of poets reading from their works; photography and poetry exhibitions; national writing workshops, geared towards special needs populations (23 workshops carried out in 2011); project for the translation of Israeli poetry into English on what is arguably the most important poetry website in the world – PIW. An expanded description of Poetry Place, including a literary resume of the organization’s poets, is available at www.poetryplace.org, a main website for Israeli poetry. its website. Poetry Place has provided a warm and welcoming home for lovers of literature since it was founded in 2002.