SOFIA METAPHORS is a regular, free, international poetry festival held from 22th to 25th of September on the territory of the capital of Bulgaria - Sofia. The festival combines contemporary poetry, prose, music, visual and performing arts in a way that is accessible to a broad urban audience. The most notable and cutting-edge Bulgarian artists take part in it – from big names with years of experience, to young up-and-coming artists only now making their names. The primary focus of SOFIA METAPHORS is poetry as an art that creates connections between all other arts.
The Festival
Poets, translators and cultural managers from many European countries and from Bulgaria visit the center of Sofia. Within four days, they participate in the International Poetry Festival SOFIA METAPHORS. They hold a poetry plein air, write, translate and read to the Sofia public poems dedicated to emblematic places for our capital. The main goal of our festival is to promote abroad the cultural heritage and diversity of our capital, to promote connections and relationships between Bulgarian and European culture and art, to promote writing and reading of poetry among a young audience.
