Bad news comes to us from Bosnian friends: Marko Vešović, poet, novelist, essayist, critic, polemicist and professor of aesthetics at the University of Sarajevo, has passed away. Montenegrin by birth, Vešović, who lived with his family in the city during the siege, was (with Izet Sarajlić and Abdulah Sidran) the writer that the people of Sarajevo admired and read most in those terrible and dark moments. Another piece of that world dear to us, which has taught us so much about poetry, culture, life, goes away. Marko was a good friend and a very fine intellectual, guest of the House of Poetry and our projects several times. It was he who often opened the Sarajevo International Poetry Meetings that we organized from 2002 to 2011.
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