title: Chair Poetry Evenings
text: # Chair Poetry Evenings
  
  Chair Poetry Evenings is an annual poetry festival held in the city of Kolkata by Chair Literary Trust. The first edition of the festival was held in November 2018 with participation from poets from Australia, Slovenia, Ireland, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Macedonia and various parts of India. The festival includes a Poetry on Cruise event across river Ganges on the ending day of the festival.
  
  ## Participating poets
  
  Some of the participating poets in 2018 were Les Wicks, Subodh Sarkar, Manglesh Dabral, K. Satchidanandan, Rajesh Joshi, Miriam Van hee, Alfred Schaffer and others. The 2018 edition was inaugurated by Sankha Ghosh and Victor Banerjee.
  
  