The Miłosz Festival named after the famous Polish Poet, is a meeting of poets and artists from all over the world. The festival emerged from Meetings of Poets of the East and the West, organised by Wisława Szymborska and Czesław Miłosz in 1997 and 2000 in Kraków. Five years after Czesław Miłosz died, the Polish Book Institute organised first edition of the festival entitled “The Captivated Mind”. With poetry readings, discussions of poetic journeys, linguistic debates, and conversations of life experiences, the festival aspires to find the role poetry plays in the modern world.