travel in July 2011 with Giovanna to Colombia to participate on 21 International Poetry Festival of Medellin, at the invitation of the poet and friend Fernando Rendón and the organizing committee.
Convened and organized by the Prometheus poetry magazine (with 87 issues published so far), our Festival, founded in 1991 and held annually since surely, will contribute to the unity of the human spirit and the globalization of poetry through coordinated efforts with other festivals and sister projects in the world, to strengthen collective action toward expanding poetic consciousness to defend life on Earth, since we are one being with the planet, for peace, solidarity and human rights.
have so far confirmed their participation poets: António Gonçalves (Angola), Christian Ide Hintze (Austria), Jorge Luis Hopffer Almada (Cape Verde), Alex Pausides, Waldo Leyva, Rogelio Martinez Fure, Rodolfo Hasler (Cuba) Aitana Alberti, Fernando Valverde (Spain), Jack Hirschman (USA), Marvin Garcia (Guatemala), Louis-Philippe Dalembert (Haiti), Rigoberto Paredes (Honduras), Rati Saxena (India), Sigurbjörg Thrastardóttir (Iceland), Amir Or (Israel), Lello Voce (Italy), Ban'ya Natsuishi (Japan), Shailja Patel (Kenya) Danilo Kocevski (Macedonia), Marco Antonio Campos (Mexico), fairy Sendoo (Mongolia), Tania Tome (Mozambique), Mvula already Nangolo (Namibia), Hans van de Waarsenburg, Cees Nooteboom (Netherlands), Zakaria Mohammed (Palestine) Ramón Palomares, Luis Alberto Crespo (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela), Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Agneta Falk (Sweden), Ataol Behramoglu (Turkey) and Haji Gora Haji (Zanzibar). Also attending: Bas Kwakman (Director of International Poetry), Gaston Bellemare (Director of the International Poetry Festival of Trois Rivieres, Peter Rorvik (Director of Poetry Africa), Celine Hemon (Director of The Spring of Poets) and Thomas Wolfart (Director of the Berlin Literature Festival.)
also include more than 21 heads of international poetry festivals. Also attended by 25 Colombian poets, a Cuban poet Poetry Award winner -2011 Gaceta de Cuba - and a leading exponent of the Cuban hip-hop genre.
communicate more details soon. Gabriel
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