Started in 2009, IPNHK is one of the most influential international poetry events in Asia. In its ten-year anniversary in November 2019, 30 famous poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong and ten cities in China afterwards to read their works based on the theme "Speech and Silence." Martin Solotruk (Slovakia), born in Bratislava, obtained his Ph.D. in American poetry from Comenius University, Bratislava, where he currently teaches.