A Reading & Conversation with Croatian Poet Monika Herceg (11/13/25)
Join us on November 13 for a Reading & Conversation with Croatian Poet Monika Herceg. The first 10 people to register for the event will receive a copy of Closed Season. You must attend the event to receive your copy.
Monika Herceg is a poet, playwright, essayist, feminist, activist, and editor at Fraktura Publishing. Born in 1990 in Sisak, Herceg has won more than twenty literary awards and was named the 2024 European Poet of Freedom. Her poems and plays have been translated into more than twenty languages and her books of poetry are published in ten other countries. Her poetry collection Closed Season has just been published in English translation by Marina Veverec (Sandorf Passage).
“Monika Herceg’s poetry is like a wound through which the world shines—painful, true, saturated with memory and anger, but also with hope for new stories. Her poems, arising from the experience of war, exile, and violence, transcend the boundaries of time and geography to stand up for those who never had a voice. This is poetry that is not afraid to speak of responsibility—for Europe, for women, for those excluded by systems and ideologies. Herceg writes about a history that no longer belongs to the victors, and about beauty that cannot fit into the confines we previously knew.”~ Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize laureate
Moderated by Stacy Mattingly (MFA, Boston University), a Boston-based writer and 2024-25 Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she has collaborated with writers for more than a decade. She teaches in BU’s Arts & Sciences Writing Program and at Berklee College of Music.
