Poets

Mitko Gogov was born on 11 November 1983, in Skopje, Macedonia. He writes poetry, short stories, essays and journal articles. He also writes haiku, senryu, renga and publishes them on the microblogging network twitter. His works have been translated and published in numerous anthologies, poetry books and journals for art and literature in India, Pakistan, the Philippines, China, Taiwan, Egypt, USA,

Argentina, Russia, Spain, Italy, the Czech Republic, Romania, Germany, Israel, Mexico, Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Kosovo, Greece, Bulgaria… 

He has published the poetry book collections: “Ice Water”, BCC, Serbia 2011,

Anthol, 2014, “Hidden Letter”, Anthol, 2019; “Linear. Numbers”, Makavej, 2021; “God on ba(c)teria”, Makavej, 2024 and won several awards and recognitions including: “Enhalon” presented by the Struga Poetry Evenings; “Angelo La Vecchia” Prize in Sicily, Italy; Prizes at the Poetic Literary Sparks”; “Poetry Slam” in Prilep; “Struga Waves” in Struga and many more. 

He is the president of the association for cultural development and protection of the cultural heritage “Кontext – Strumuca,”; An organizer of the global poetry event “100 Thousand Poets for Change” in Macedonia; A representative of the World Union of Poets and the School of Poetry – Macedonian Delegation; One of the founders of the “Antevo Slovo” and “Antevo Pero” Awards; Editor of strumicaonline.net and reper.net.mk.

As well he is a conceptual artist and has had several exhibitions, installations, performances, scenography and multimedia projects in Norway, France, Italy, Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria… He organizes cultural and art events, collaborates with youth, art, film and theatre festivals. Blogger, always open for communication.