Terra di Mare Festival – Poetry Festival

The Maremma Poetry Festival

The Terra di Mare Festival is the leading event dedicated to contemporary poetry in Grosseto, the capital of the Tuscan Maremma. Created to restore a space for real-life connection to the poetic word, the festival offers three intense days of readings, author dialogues, performances, workshops, and moments where poetry intertwines with music. The event is promoted by the Pro Loco of Grosseto and curated by poet and cultural organizer David La Mantia, the driving force behind the "Finestre" lit-blog, which officially became a cultural association during the 2026 edition.

A temporary community of the word

The theme running through the festival is the return of the word to reality: taking poetry off the page and out of the frantic scrolling of social media, allowing it to inhabit listening, discussion, and physical presence. Over the three days, more than eighty voices of contemporary Italian poetry—poets, publishers, literary critics, and editors—alternate in a program that blends readings, presentations, round tables, and intersections between different languages. It is not a grand spectacle, but a shared experience built on friction, questions, and dialogue.

Program and protagonists

The festival unfolds over approximately seventeen hours of activities spread across three days, with morning and afternoon sessions. Guests from recent editions include national poetic figures such as Davide Rondoni, alongside numerous authors, independent publishers, and editors. A particularly significant reflection is the relationship between poetry and new technologies, featuring a conference dedicated to artificial intelligence and its connection to writing. There is also space for spoken word music and collaborative publishing projects, making the festival a meeting point for independent poetry.

Grosseto and the Maremma

Hosting a poetry festival in the heart of Grosseto, a city enclosed by its famous Medici walls, means combining contemporary culture with the charm of the Maremma—a land historically defined by the border between sea, plains, and hills in the Tuscany region. The festival is part of the Maremma capital's rich summer calendar and represents an opportunity to experience the historic center in a cultural light, amidst words, voices, and sounds.

Why attend

• Three days entirely dedicated to contemporary Italian poetry
• Over eighty poets, publishers, critics, and editors
• Readings, dialogues, workshops, and poetry set to music
• A widespread and participatory festival in the center of Grosseto, in the Maremma