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22/6/2000

International Poetry Festival

Corporation Prometeo, Medellin

Founded in 1991 "amid a climate of violence and death, as an expression of poetry's capacity for mobilization and the rebuilding of a social fabric lacerated by explosive disintegration," The International Poetry Festival in Medellin this year begins:
Viernes 23 de Junio
INAUGURACION. Cerro Nutibara. Teatro al aire libre Carlos Vieco. 6:30 PM
Giovanni Quessep, (Colombia) Eira Stenberg, (Finlandia) Homero Aridjis, (Mexico) Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor, (Ghana), Anne Ranasinghe, (Sri Lanka) Odia Ofeimun, (Nigeria) Franktienne, (Haiti) Zlatko Krasni, (Yugoslavia) Adonis (Siria)

and closes:
Martes 4 de Julio
Ciudad de Leticia. Salon Multiple. Banco de la Republica. (Carrera 11 # 9-43). 6:30 PM Lasse Soderberg (Suecia)

The Festival has grown from 1991 when 13 poets from Colombia participated for an audience of approximately 2,000 people; to 1996 when poets from Germany, Australia, Austria, Bosnia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Spain, United States, France, Guadalupe, Guatemala, Italy, Japan and Mexico performed at with poetry 40 places through the city to about 60.000 people; to 1999 when 64 poets from 42 nations will read their poems in 93 poetry readings.

"The rapid increase, in the Festival, of the number of participating poets, from all five continents and representing 67 countries to-date added to the impressive magnitude of audiences at all events, suggests the increasing influence of poetry in society," the Festival states.

Corporation of Art and Poetry Prometeo:
Calle 56 # 40-55, Medellin, Colombia, South America.
Phones (574) 2911950, (574) 2541654 y (574) 2548139. Fax : (574) 2911950. P.O. Box: 7392, Medellin, Colombia.

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