Weltklang – Night of Poetry is poesiefestival berlin’s prismatic and panoramic opening. Poets will read, sing, and perform in their source languages, demonstrating the full spectrum of contemporary poetry: its power, its diversity of approaches and styles. Just for the event, an anthology will be published in German and English so that audience members can read along with the poems presented onstage. With Arooj Aftab | Takako Arai | Polina Barskova | Julian Talamantez Brolaski | Radna Fabias | Meena Kandasamy | Zaffar Kunial | Christian Lehnert

Introduced by Daniela Danz | Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç | hn. lyonga | Goitseone Montsho | Eugene Ostashevsky | Avrina Prabala-Joslin | Yoko Tawada | Ralph Tharayil