International Poetry Festival of Medellín

The Festival will take place from July 2nd to 9th, 2011, in a country burdened
with a painful history of over five decades of conflict, as recently
acknowledged by its president Juan Manuel Santos.

With 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature Derek Walcott attending alongside a
significant delegation of African poets and singers, there will open, in 40
days’ time, the XXI International Poetry Festival of Medellín, convened and
organized by the Prometeo poetry magazine, with the participation of over 90
poets from 50 countries of all the continents. It will pay homage to the Spirit
of Origin and to African poetry, as it was in the black continent where the
human legend arose, and where the winged hearts of its griots breathed poetry
into the heart of the species.

URL: www.festivaldepoesiademedellin.org