The year 2025 was rich in movement, travel, and multi-directional cultural work—a year in which geography intersected with creativity, and personal experience converged with public cultural action, grounded in a firm belief in the role of the word, art, and knowledge in building bridges among peoples.
Major Journeys of the Year:
A Poem by Blerina Pëllumbi, an Albanian poetess based in Paris
Angels embrace silently, smiling,
In a mad world that gives wings to noise,
Where life’s truths are born and lost,
Where they start to sing – and start to weep…
Blerina Pëllumbi, born in the beautiful city of Korçë, Albania,
A Poem by Madaminova Ogiloy, a young poetess from Republic of Uzbekistan
A house with a woman radiates light,
A house without a woman is not welcoming.
So appreciate a woman,
Love a woman and surrender!
Madaminova Ogiloy, born in 2002 in Koshkopir district Khorezm region Republic of Uzbekistan, is 3rd stage student of Jizzakh
In the silence, he seems to hear
a roar rising from the depths of the stone…
Ma Peisong is Director of the China Poetry Society
Ma Peisong, a Chinese poet born in the 1960s, currently resides in Mianyang. He is a member of the China Writers Association, a director of the China Poetry Society, as well as a member of the
A month ago, on Wednesday, September 3, 2025, the Silk Road Literature Series opened a new chapter in its global journey with the Three Continents Creative Meeting — a luminous hour of shared imagination that spanned time zones and tongues. Six authors from three continents gathered online, their voices woven together by the Egyptian
