Dejan Koban

1979, Slovenia

Together with Veronika Dintinjana, he organizes poetry nights and the festival of Mlade rime. His book of poetry Metulji pod tlakom (Butterflies under Pressure) came out in self-publication. His poems have been featured in the magazines Idiot and Poetikon. With his poetry, he collaborated on the compilation Rokerji pojejo pesnike (Rockers Sing Poets). He interprets his poems in the music band Nevemnevem. He loves to read Allen Ginsberg and Katja Plut. His favoriteat the moment include Blaž Božič, Monika Vrečar, Kristina Hočevar, Gregor Podlogar, Blaž Iršič and Glorjana Veber. Lately, he often changes the sentence “Poetry is cool” to “Poetry is essential”.