Libor Staněk II.
Libor Staněk II. (*1990) graduated with a PhD in Recent History of Czech Literature at the Faculty of Arts of JCU. His main area of professional interest is contemporary Czech poetry. He publishes essays, reviews and criticism on this topic in magazines such as Host, A2, Full Moon, Echo24, or Respekt. In 2019 he published his poetry debut Drolení in the publishing house Dobrý dôvod. In 2023 he published the conceptual collection Light Poems, which thematized the intimate space of his birthplace. He has also been involved in conceptual installations of poetic texts that work with an environmental subtext. He has curated poetry readings at the Šrámkova Sobotka, Luhovaný Vincent and Vivat Vila festivals. He co-founded a contemporary poetry festival in the Poetry is. space in Tábor, which focuses on textual intermediality. He plays in the bands Sýček and Walden. Together with his sister Barbora Koritenská, he founded the association Živá vila. He is currently the head dramaturge at the Oskar Nedbal Theatre in Tábor.
