This is our sixth international collaborative literary and artistic project: the exceptions one. It was initially advertised as the fifth one, and no one has corrected this for a year. :)
This time, by an amazing (exceptional!) coincidence, not only did we select one Polish Nobel Prize in Literature laureate to be our inspiration, but we also witnessed the winning of the same prize by another Pole. It is a true privilege to cultivate this tiny allotment beside their blooming orchard.
In her Possibilities, Wislawa Szymborska says, “I prefer the absurdity of writing poems/ to the absurdity of not writing poems.” So do we, the participants — alongside some other creative absurdities and bonding ridiculousness.
It was wonderful to see all the regular and new contributors get involved, and it was just as thrilling to see some past ones come back.
Here we are, one more time: diverse, artistic, unprejudiced, limitless, unstoppable — and united.
