Poetry salon : Poéticafé

Alara Adilow is a Dutch poet of Somali descent. A finalist in the NK Poetry Slam in 2019, she has been published in several Dutch literary magazines and was selected for a queer art residency at the Arnhem Museum.

Frank Keizer (1987) is a poet, translator and literary critic. He studied Dutch and general literature at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), where he is currently doing a research master's degree in Dutch literature. In 2012, he published the booklet Dear world, fuck off, ik ga golfen (Dear world, fuck off, I'm going to play golf). Together with Maarten van der Graaff and Daniël Labruyère, he co-founded the literary platform Samplekanon. He has been a regular contributor to the literary magazine Parmentier and is a regular contributor to the website De Reactor. With Samuel Vriezen, he is currently translating the collection Disaster Suites by American poet Rob Halpern, to be published under the title Rampensuites by Perdu.

Filip Rogiers is the author of novels, short stories and non-fiction. As a journalist, he has reported on social issues for many years.

In addition to writing, Asha Karami works as a youth doctor, yoga teacher and as a ring doctor at martial arts galas. She debuted her poems in nY and Poëziekrant in 2017 and has since published in several literary journals, including Het Liegend Konijn, Terras, Revisor, Tirade, De Gids, Samplekanon and Ooteote. Her debut collection Godface was published by De Bezige Bij in 2019. She received the Charlotte Köhler Stipendium as well as nominations for Herman de Coninck Prize, Grand Poetry Prize and E. du Perron Prize.

Dominique De Groen (b. 1991) is a writer and visual artist. She published the poetry collections Shop Girl (2017), Sticky Drama ( 2019), Sacrificial Lamb (2020) and Snakes (2022) with the publisher Het Balanseer. Furthermore, her work has appeared in several national and international magazines, among others. She was awarded the Frans Vogel Poetry Prize 2019 and the Audience Award of the PrixFintro Prize for Literature 2021. She was also nominated for the Poetry Debut Prize Aan Zee 2018 and the Herman De Coninck Prize 2020.

Luke Allan is editor-in-chief of the magazine Oxford Poetry and author of the poetry chapbook Sweet Dreams, the Sea (Poetry Society of America, 2025). His literary works have garnered numerous prizes like the Charles Causley Prize, the Mairtín Crawford Award, the Ivan Juritz Prize, the Westerly Life Writing Prize, and the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Prize. He has also been shortlisted for the National Poetry Competition and the Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize. His works have been published in the Times Literary Supplement, the Literary Review, and Poetry. While in Brussels, Luke Allan will be working on his experimental memoir The End, to be published in 2027. By mixing lyrical prose, literary history, and speculative metaphysics he tells the story of his relationship with books and the loss of his mother. On Saturday 20 September 2025, Luke Allan will be one of our guest poets for Poetik Bazar. In the September issue of the Belgian poetry magazine Poëziekrant, poet Tom Van de Voorde will publish his Dutch translations of Luke Allan's poems. This residency is part of an annual exchange between Passa Porta and the National Centre for Writing in Norwich.