On July 1 and 2, New Zealand’s poet Hera Lindsay Bird visited Vilnius and Kaunas. This has been one of the first meetings that will be more frequent in the context of Druskininkai Poetic Fall festival. We have plans to invite various poets and to organize meetings with them not just in Vilnius or Druskininkai, but also in other towns and cities of Lithuania.

We are starting the 29th summer preceding Durskininkai Poetic Fall with a new web site, whose goal is much more than just to be there.

On July 1 and 2, Hera Lindsay Bird, New Zealand poet and New Generation winner, will be visiting Lithuania and meeting the audience. In 2016, she debuted with her poem collection "Hera Lindsay Bird" that became popular immediately and was bought up overnight.

The 10th DPF 1999 took place on October 8 – 10, 1999. About 120 participants came from different countries: Craig Czury, James Hoch, Kerry Shawn Keys, and Sam Witt (USA); Knut Ødegård and Jostein Saeboe (Norway); Mikkel Thykier and Marius Nodrup-Nielsen (Denmark); Janis Ramba, Jolanda Silanže, Ieva Melgalve, and Maris Salajs (Latvia); Zbigniew Dominiak, Jagoda Rogorza, and Leszek Engelking (Poland); Elisabeth Rynell and Gunilla Forsen (Sweden); Gerardo Beltrán (Mexico); Jurij Jefremov (Russia); Riccardo Duranti (Italy); Darius Victor Snieckus (England); Lithuanian poets living abroad – Sigitas Birgelis from Poland, Kornelijus Jazbutis, Eglė Juodvalkė, and Jonas Zdanys from USA. The rest were Lithuanian poets, literary critics and publishers.

The eleventh Druskininkai Poetic Fall took place during the warm and sunny days of October 6 to 8, 2000 and brought together more than 120 poets, translators, and critics from Lithuania and from other countries.

The 12th DPF took place October 5-8. About 130 festival participants and guests from Lithuania and from abroad gathered together in Druskininkai.

The 13th international literary festival Druskininkai Poetic Fall took place October 3-7 in Druskininkai and Vilnius. 123 poets, translators, critics, literary scholars, and publishers participated.

This year we continued the cycle of four festivals linked to the elements, dedicating this second one to water. 144 participants (35 from abroad) took part in the festival on 1-6th October.

132 participants, among them 22 from abroad, took part in the DPF'2004 on 29th September – 4th October. The annual anthology of the festival was published in time. All poets published in it took part in readings:

Gintaras Bleizgys (Lithuania), Aleksei Alechin (Russia), Kazimierz Brakoniecki (Poland), Silvija Choleva (Bulgaria), Craig Czury (USA), Vytautas Bložė (Lithuania), Jacek Gutorow (Poland), Jürg Halter (Switzerland), Sam Hamill (USA), Miriam van hee (Belgium), Jurczok 1001 (Switzerland), Juris Kronbergs (Latvia), Pedro Lenz (Switzerland), Liv Lundberg (Norway), Darius Šimonis (Lithuania), Andri Snaer Magnason (Iceland), Jaan Malin (Estonia), Robert Minhinnick (Wales), Esther Morgan (England), Dovilė Zelčiūtė (Lithuania), Josip Osti (Slovenia), Knuts Skujenieks (Latvia), Mustafa Stitou (The Netherlands), and Agnė Žagrakalytė (Lithuania).

One hundred twelve participants, among them twenty-two from abroad, took part in the 16th festival on 12-17th October. All poets published in the anthology participated in festival readings:

Marcel Beyer (Germany); Anneke Brassinga (The Netherlands); Peters Bruveris (Latvia); Kristina Ehin (Estonia); Patricia Goodrich (USA); Tautvyda Marcinkevičiūtė (Lithuania); Bob Hansson (Sweden); Brian Johnstone (Scotland); Christian Katt (Austria); Marcelijus Martinaitis (Lithuania); Maria Martysevich (Belarus); Sabina Naef (Switzerland); Bragi Ólafsson (Iceland); Kęstutis Navakas (Lithuania); Claudio Pozzani (Italy); Rein Raud (Estonia); Donatas Petrošius (Lithuania); Steven Schroeder (USA); Rebecca Seiferle (USA); Rimvydas Stankevičius (Lithuania); Ilpo Tiihonen (Finland); Gunnar Wærness (Norway); and Patricija Šmit (Lithuania).