Day Seven: 20th International Poetry Festival of Medellin

By: aromaproductions on 3:31 PM

Share it Please

Tweet

The Interview I did with El Colombiano finally came out in it's sunday edition. It includes the cover of a reading by a kenyan poet, Christopher Okema and is followed below with the interview of three female poets one of which is myself. Click on the website below.

Attended a reading last night. The readers included Alhaji Papa Susso, Gambian griot. Other poets included Luigi Cinque (Italy), Hector Fagot (Colombia), Bob Holman in white hat (USA), Gustavo Garces (Colombia), Veronica Zondek (Chile), Niyi and Osundare (Nigeria). Patricia, the Armenian poet and I sat in the audience

http://www.elcolombiano.com/BancoConocimiento/L/letras_para_reinventar_la_vida/letras_para_reinventar_la_vida.asp?CodSeccion=203

Did some shopping earlier in the company of two gentlemen. Poets from Monserrat and St. Vincent and Barbuda. We bought a lot of souvenirs for family and friends. Took photos of the beautiful brick houses and apartment buildings which cover the steep mountain sides in Medellin.  I was told it is about the size of the city of  Berlin in Germany.  I will have to confirm that though. Most of the houses and building in this city are made of brick. I was informed that they are ecologically friendly.

Reading tonight at teatro Anteneo Porfiro Barba Jacob. Torres de Bombana (Cell 47 ). Partners include Poets Javier Campos (Chile), Consuelo Hernandez (Colombia), Fabiano Alborghetti (Switzerland), Leon Gil (Colombia) and Jenny Tunedal (Sweden).