What Is Gezellige Poëzie?

I’m writing a column—called “Gezellige Poëzie”—over at the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s blog. The column will cover poetry communities in Europe and the introductory post talks about the Dutch word “gezellig,” the concept of the untranslatable, and that time I hugged everyone in Laura Kasischke’s poetry workshop. Check out the first article here: http://poetry.arizona.edu/blog/what-gezellige-po%C3%ABzie