Included material in past editions
2018
MARCH
My work on language and power was an
elaboration of a Tagorean sentiment: Ngugi wa Thiongo
2017
MARZO
2016
OCTOBER
Message For World Fraternity
First World Poetry Meeting of Indigenous Peoples
SEPTEMBER
World Poetry Action Against War and for Peace on Earth
in October 2016: World Poetry Movement Call
MAY
Report of the Seventh General Conference of
Writers Union of Africa and Asia (AAWU)
FEBRUARY
2015
NOVEMBER
Gabriel Rosenstock interviewed for Bhashanagar (Kolkata)
By Subodh Sarkar
MAY
Two poems By Usha Akella
By Usha Akella
2014
NOVEMBER
A powerful voice arising from an active spiritual combustion:
World Poetry Movement Manifesto
MAY
A Planet Free Of Wars. For Peace, Justice and Poetry
By Coordination Committee WPM
2013
OCTOBER
Anthology of poems. The Dragon in the Valley of Poetry
Poetry International Meeting China-Colombia
Program: Dragon in Valley of Poetry
Interview to Mahmoud Darwish
By Raja Shehadeh
SEPTEMBER
Qinghai Lake International Poetry Manifesto
By Jidi Majia
MARCH
Forces of World Poetry for 1000 Years of Peace in Colombia
2012
OCTOBER
Pablo Neruda, The Art of Poetry
AUGUST
APRIL
New perspectives and dimensions of World Poetry Movement
MARCH
World Poetry Movement in response to the historical crisis
A Leap Forward in San Franciso
FEBRUARY
Confirmation of Worldwide Poetry Readings
for February 29th Keeps Advancing
Christian Ide Hintze (1953-2012)
Approved World Poetry Movement's Strategic Plan 2012-2014
Poetry was born before poets
By Lello Voce
2011
DECEMBER
"Journey between your soul and the larger sould"
By Joan L. Woodruff
Hatto Fischer on Greece madness and European debts
An interview with Jenny Hval
By SJ Fowler
NOVEMBER
Humanism, a new idea
By Irina Bokova
International Black Literary Figures From Africa
and America - Keorapetse William Kgositsile
Revolution rapper Mohamed El Deeb, Tahrir squares figurehead
World Poetry Movement deploys itself
0CTOBER
SEPTEMBER
Poetic Justice
By Fernando Rendón
AUGUST
831 poetry readings in 530 cities of 106 countries
throughout the world, this 24th of September
Received Messages Confirming 247 poetry
readings for September the 24th , 2011 (WPM)
Poetry Reading on September 24th organized by WPM
Appeal of WPM to realize Poetry Readings on September 24th
JULY
Foundational Statement of the World Poetry Movement
Peace and reconstruction of the human spirit
By Jairo Guzmán
Medellin Statement: Poetry for the Planet
By Peter Rorvik
Stupidity and Poetry
By Ban’ya Natsuishi
Changing a Life
By Bas Kwakman
On the connection between poetry and freedom
By Thomas Wohlfahrt
The Transformation of a Drug Capital: the Medellín Poetry Festival
MAY
Eas National Poetry Month Draws to a Close
By Ken McCullough
MARCH
Joint Statement on the Japanese Nuclear Disaster
Alliance of Right Livelihood Award Laureates Demands Global Nuclear Phase Out
JANUARY
Interview with Derek Walcott
By Edward Hirsch
The Rapturous World of Words
On Hadaa Sendoos poetry
By Rita Malhotra
Correspondence and dialogue with Rati Saxena
Emergency Poetry
By Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir
Fifteen years since the foundation of the
International Poetry School of Medellín
The burning question
By Fernando Rendón
The XXI International Poetry Festival of
Medellín: meeting of the antelope and the star
Five years after the flood, Osundare goes for Katrina
By Ademola Adesola
Chiwoniso Maraire:"I literally feel like I am a vessel"
An Interview with Chris Abani
By Carlye Archibeque
The Xhosa musician Madosini Latozi Mpahleni
Paradise Lost: Cees Nooteboom takes on our jet-fueled millennium
By Jess Row
Banya Matsuishi: Second Sight
By Richard Gilbert
2010
OCTOBER
Trailer Cultures of Resistance
By Cultures of Resistance
AUGUST
The Future is first shaped by Words
By Gémino H. Abad
JULY
Balance of the XX International Poetry Festival of Medellín
By Jairo Guzmán
Press cuttings about XX Poetry Festival of Medellin.
JUNE
Regarding the Emblematic Phrase
of the XX International Poetry Festival of Medellín:
Human Destiny is Just a Celestial Rhythm
By Jairo Guzmán
XX International Poetry Festival
of Medellín: An enduring dream
Twenty Years of a Historic
Poetic Project for the World
MAY
Meaning of Poetry by Invited Poets
to XX International Poetry Festival of Medellín
MARCH
The International Poetry Festival of Medellín
Contemporary Hierophany
Biographical Information of Invited poets to the
XX International Poetry Festival of Medellín
JANUARY
An Interview with Bob Holman
By Dan Brodnitz
A Close Reading of Cesar Ruiz Aquino's "Word Without End"
By Ralph Semino Galan
The Poet As Sculptor and Other Thoughts On Writing Poetry
By Althea Romeo-Mark
Poetry Is Painting with Words
By Althea Romeo-Mark
Alternative Anthem
By John Agard
Gasham Najafzadeh’s truth
By Shemsi Vefadar
Imtiaz Dharker- A Study in Prescriptive
Social and Religious Sanctions
By Prof. R.K. Bhushan
The Defiant of Poetry my Term
Quamruzzaman
Alias
By M.A. Taher
2009
NOVEMBER
Celebration of twenty years of
The Poetry Festival of Medellin
Blake
By T.S. Eliot
William Butler Yeats
By Louise Bogan
Life with the Real White Goddess
By Louis Simpson
Interview with Seamus Heaney
By Sameer Rahim
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AUGUST
Memories of Medellin
By Usha Akella
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JULY
With roots of love for the future: People speaks of the Festival
Photo gallery XIX Poetry Festival of Medellin
Press cuttings about XIX International Poetry Festival of Medellin
Received messages from invited poets returning to their countries
Evaluation of the XIX International Poetry Festival of Medellin
Memories of XIX International Poetry Festival of Medellín
Letter to the World Public Opinion en solidary
with the International Poetry Festival of Medellin
Expressions of worldwide solidarity
The song of all love of the world
at the superhuman shore
Words for an Opening by Fernando Rendón
Vietnamese poetry at the XIX Poetry Festival of Medellín
The XIX International Poetry Festival of Medellin
in the neighborhood for displacement people La Cruz
Opening poetry reading XIX International Poetry Festival of Medellin
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APRIL
We have used a language common to our hearts
By Direction Committee of XIX Poetry Festival of Medellin
Freedom Is Not On Sale
Poems by Mvula Ya Nangolo
Poetry in Tajikistan: Gulrukhsor Safieva
Édouard Glissant: Celebrated Francophone Writer
Poet protects 'personal history'
Interview with Ghassan Zaqtan
Some notes on Quipu by Arthur Sze: string theory
An Essay on the Meaning of Poetry in the Present-day World
Essay by Ifi Amadiume to the XIX International Poetry Festival of Medellin
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FEBRUARY
XIX International Poetry Festival
of Medellín July 4 to 11, 2009
The International Poetry Festival of Medellín
Declared Cultural Heritage of Colombia
Poetry of Transformation and Transitions
By Fuad Rifka
Essay on Poetry
By Lenrie Peters
I Lived a Magical Feast
By Fadhil Al-Azzawi
Few remarks on the Meaning o Poetry in the Present-Day World
By Sigurdur Pálsson
Poetry in Present Day
By Rashidah Ismaili AbuBakr
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2008
Worldwide reading in memory of Mahmoud Darwish
on 5 October 2008
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The Poetry Festival of Medellín does not sympathize with war
By Fernando Rendón
Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet, is dead
Lettre du poète Breyten Breytenbach
A poets Palestine As Metaphor
By Adam Shatz
Mahmoud Darwish spoke in the
name of the Palestinian people
Updated at March 27th, 2018
