tentacles & harm
New poetry by Hannah Schraven, Alexander Graeff & Kevin Junk

Poets' Corner
Reading
Talk
Poesiefestival Berlin 2026
Silent Rixdorf
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Hannah Schraven © Maxi Burkhardt

Kevin Junk © Tobias König

Alexander Graeff © Natalia Reich

How does poetry change in the face of climate change and political uncertainty? How do poets respond to polycrises and the violence of the present? Upheavals, disruptions, and disturbed rhythms are taken up and processed as a measure of transformation. The poetry presented this evening seeks answers to these questions, confronting a crisis-ridden present with a fluid mode of thinking that finds expression in an inevitable yet always permeable form of speaking and writing.

Hannah Schraven, Alexander Graeff, and Kevin Junk engage in their poems with the ecological, political, and emotional upheavals of the present, embracing them with both resistance and tenderness. In doing so, they break with the traditional dualism of utopia and dystopia — and dissolve their own poetics into the non-binary.

The three authors will read from their current poetry collections as well as newer texts, which they will present collectively for the evening. The discussion following the reading will be moderated by Andrea Schmidt, publisher at Verlagshaus Berlin.

The event takes place in German.

All visitors will receive headphones, for which a fee of €2 will be charged.