Sunset Cento by our Fall 2019 poet-in-digital-residence Kathryn Hummel is now released! Hummel´s collaborative work comprises of textual and visual fragments sent by participant all over the world. What do people think and feel when watching a sunset? Are all sunsets the same? How does our digital culture affect the ways we experience an analogue […]

Our poet-in-Digital Residence in Fall 2019 is Kathryn Hummel, Australian writer and researcher with a background in Social Sciences. Her works often address themes of gender, postcolonialism, urban spaces and travel. Nokturno now welcomes Kathryn and her project Sunset Cento in the Digital Residence! Sunset Cento begins with an open call for poetry in diverse […]

Poet, translator, and long-time editor of literature portal Nokturno, Marko Niemi, passed away on Wednesday, 18 September of a seizure. Marko was one of the founders of Nokturno in 2005 and edited the website from 2006-2014. The site’s international standing and significance to the Finnish literary world as a cumulative resource for digital poetry is […]

Poetry magazine Tuli & Savu announces an open call for mail art exhibition. Received works will also be published at Nokturno in a virtual exhibition. Deadline for submissions is at the end of August 16.9.2019. Mail art, developed in the 1950´s and 1960´s, mixes collage, visual poetry and other combinations of image and text, but […]

This year we held two open calls for Digital Residence at the same time, both for Spring and Fall 2019. Nokturno´s work group chose two intriguing works, each of them using the opportunities provided by our Digital Residency program in a new way. In Spring we have Niina Oisalo´s extensive genre-crossing project on video poetry […]