ERNESTO CARDENAL
FRANCISCO DE ASÍS FERNÁNDEZ
GIOCONDA BELLI
NICASIO URBINA
BLANCA CASTELLÓN
CLARIBEL ALEGRIA
PEDRO XAVIER SOLÍS
ISOLDA HURTADO
FERNANDO ANTONIO SILVA
FERNANDO LOPEZ
LUZ MARINA ACOSTA
EDWIN YLLESCAS
IVÁN URIARTE
ANASTASIO LOVO
HÉCTOR AVELLÁN
VIDA LUZ MENESES
DÉBORA ROB
ALVARO RIVAS
CARLOS CASTRO JO
RAÚL XAVIER GARCÍA
ALEJANDRO BRAVO
CHRISTIAN SANTOS
ÁLVARO GUTIÉRREZ
JORGE EDUARDO ARELLANO
FRANKLIN CALDERA
SILVIO AMBROGGI
SANTIAGO MOLINA
MARTHA LEONOR GONZÁLEZ
ERICK AGUIRRE
MARINA MONCADA
LUIS VEGA MIRANDA
YELBA CLARISA BERRÍOS
YAOSKA TIJERINO
JORGE EDUARDO ARGUELLO
DANIEL ULLOA
RAFAEL MITRE
ALVARO GUTIERREZ
MARIA ESPERANZA MORALES
MARIO MARTZ
ERICK BLANDON
NINOZKA CHACON
MADELINE MENDIETA
DAVID MCFIELDS

WELCOME, REGISTRATION AND HOTEL CHECK-IN
Coordinated by: Protocol

5:30 – 6:30 PM
READING BY EMERGING YOUNG POETS
Place: Plaza de Los Leones
Presenter: Poet Gioconda Belli, Vice-President of the Poetry Festival
Coordinators: Fernando Lopez, Bayardo Martinez Saravia and Salomon Alarcon

7:00 – 7:45 PM
Performance of the poem “The Placing in the Sepulcher” by poet Carlos Martinez Rivas
With poets Madeline Mendieta and Alejandra Sequeira
Place: Plaza de Los Leones
Coordinators: Salomón Alarcón and Alberto Maravilla

8:00 – 9:00 PM
MUSIC CONCERT: Singer and songwriter KATIA CARDENAL
Place: Plaza de los Leones
Presenter: Bayardo Saravia Martinez
Coordinated by: Protocol

9:00 PM
Dinner for guest poets
Place: Casa de Los Leones
Musical entertainment: Los Hijos del Son

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13

GUEST ACCREDITATION AND DELIVERY OF MATERIALS
Place: Casa de los Leones
Coordinated by: Protocol

10:00 – 10:30 AM
BOOK FAIR INAUGURATION
IN HOMAGE TO POET PABLO ANTONIO CUADRA ON THE CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH
Place: Plaza de los Leones
Inaugurated by: Francis of Asís Fernandez, Pedro Xavier Solis and Luz Marina Acosta
Coordinators: Luz Marina Acosta and Fernando Lopez

11:00 AM
INAUGURATION OF CRAFTS FAIR
Place: Central Park
Inaugurated by: Martha Lorena Briones (Executive Director of INPYME) and Fernando Lopez
Coordinators: INPYME and Fernando Lopez

11:30 AM – 12:00 NOON
OPEN MIC
Place: Plaza de los Leones – Book Fair
Coordinators: Poets Fernando Lopez and Victor Chavarría.
Inaugurated by: Poet Fernando Lopez

2:00 – 5:00 PM
INAUGURATION OF LITERARY WORKSHOP
TAUGHT BY: POET LUIS ALBERTO AMBROGGIO (sponsored by the U.S. Embassy)
Inaugurated by: Valerie Wheat, Cultural Attaché, Embassy of the United States of America
Coordinators: Fernando Lopez and Victor Chavarría
Place: Casa de los Leones

6:00 – 8:00 PM
POETRY READING BY WOMEN POETS
Place: Atrium of La Merced Church
Presenter: Poet Blanca Castellón, Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the International Poetry Festival
Coordinators: Fernando Lopez, Salomón Alarcón and Horacio Navas

8:00 – 9:00 PM
MUSIC CONCERT: Singer and songwriter NORMA HELENA GADEA
Presenter: Bayardo Saravia Martinez
Coordinators: Bayardo Saravia Martinez, Fernando Lopez and Salomón Alarcón
Place: Atrium of La Merced Church
9:00 PM
Cocktail offered by HOTEL DARIO in honor of the Honorary President of the Festival and Ambassador of Spain, Don León de la Torre y Krais, and members of the Board of Directors of the International Poetry Festival.

El Festival en la Plaza de la Independencia, Granada

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14

10:00 – 11:30 AM
WELCOME: MEETING OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL POETS
Presentation of the Board of Directors of the Granada International Poetry Festival Foundation and Invited Organizations: Nicaraguan Writers Center, Nicaraguan Writers Association, Nicaraguan Institute of Hispanic Culture (INCH), guest poets.
Place: Casa de los Leones
Chaired by: Francisco de Asís Fernandez, President of the Festival, Vice-Presidents Gioconda Belli, Blanca Castellón and Nicasio Urbina, Vida Luz Meneses (CNE), Isolda Hurtado (ANIDE) and René Gonzalez (INCH)
Coordinators and presenters: Pedro Xavier Solis and Gloria Gabuardi

POETRY READING
Coordinators: Fernando Lopez and Pedro Xavier Solis

10:00 AM – 12:00 NOON
Poetry reading: Open mike at the Book Fair in homage to Pablo Antonio Cuadra
Coordinator: Victor Chavarría

2:00 – 5.00 PM
LITERARY WORKSHOP TAUGHT BY POET LUIS ALBERTO AMBROGGIO
Place: Casa de los Leones
Coordinator: Victor Chavarria

6:00 – 6:30 PM
OFFICIAL INAUGURATION OF THE VIII GRANADA INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL IN HOMAGE TO POET CARLOS MARTINEZ RIVAS
Chaired by: Poet Francisco de Asís Fernandez Arellano, President of the Festival, Mr. Mario Salinas, Minister of the Nicaraguan Tourism Board; His Excellency Leon de la Torre Krais, Honorary President of the Festival and Ambassador of Spain; His Excellency Mr. Eulogio Mejia, Mayor of the City of Granada; Mr. Luis Morales Alonso, co-director of the Nicaraguan Cultural Institute; Most Reverend Bishop of the Diocese of Granada, Monsignor Jorge Solórzano; Vice-Presidents of the Festival: Gioconda Belli, Blanca Castellón and Nicasio Urbina;Mr. Dieter Stadler, Director of Casa de los Leones

Remarks by the Honorary President of the Festival
Remarks by the President of the Festival
Place: Independence Square
Coordinators: Protocol, Fernando Lopez, Gloria Gabuardi, Luz Marina Acosta, Bayardo Martinez Saravia and Salomón Alarcón
Presenter: Fernando Lopez

6:30 – 8:00 PM
POETRY READING:
Coordinators and presenters: Luz Marina Acosta and Salomón Alarcon

8:00 – 9:00 PM
MUSIC CONCERT: Singer-songwriter LUIS ENRIQUE MEJÍA GODOY
Sponsored by Telefonica (Movistar)
Coordinator and presenter: Bayardo Saravia Martinez

9:00 – 12.00 PM
Welcome cocktail offered by the Embassy of Spain to the guest poets
Musical entertainment: Grupo Maralej and 4 del Solar
Place: Casa de los Leones
Coordinated by: Protocol

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15

9:00 AM – 12:00 NOON
Poetry reading: Open mike at the Book Fair in tribute to Pablo Antonio Cuadra
Coordinator: Victor Chavarría

10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
ROUNDTABLE ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF POET CARLOS MARTINEZ RIVAS (CMR)
Place: San Francisco Convent (Arcos Hall)
Expositors: Poets Erick Blandón (Nicaragua), Julio Valle-Castillo (Nicaragua), Donaldo Altamirano (Nicaragua), Yaoska Tijerino (Nicaragua)
Presentation of the book “Cómo Toca un Ciego el Sueño” CMR,by poet Vida Luz Meneses, President of the Nicaraguan Writers Center (CNE).
Coordinator: Nicasio Urbina

2:00 – 6:00 PM
POETIC CARNIVAL
BURIAL of “The Tears of Heartbreak” with the SLOGAN: “Poetry is Solitary Insurrection”
FUNERAL PROCESSION
Parade of dance groups with all manifestations of Nicaraguan folklore
Long live poetry! Long live freedom! Long live love! Here is Granada!

POETRY READING AT EVERY STREET CORNER OF GRANADA
Place of departure: Atrium of La Merced Church to Lake Nicaragua
Opening remarks: Poet Gloria Gabuardi
Coordinators: Bayardo Martinez S., Fernando Lopez, Salomón Alarcón, Luz Marina Acosta, Gloria Gabuardi,
Benjamin Lugo

7:00 – 8:00 PM
TRIBUTE TO THE NICARAGUAN CARIBBEAN COAST
POETRY READING
Place: Atrium of San Francisco Church
Coordinators: Bayardo Martinez Saravia, Salomón Alarcón, Fernando Lopez and Álvaro Rivas
Presenters: Poets Álvaro Rivas and Carlos Castro Jo

8:00 – 9:00 PM
Music concert: Singer PHILLIP MONTALBÁN
Presenter: Bayardo Martinez

9:00 PM
Dinner offered by Friends from PUERTO RICO to guest poets from around the world
Musical entertainment: Los Hijos del Son

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16

9:00 AM – 12:00 NOON
Poetry reading: Open mike at the Book Fair in tribute to Pablo Antonio Cuadra

10:00 -10:30 AM
OFFICIAL PHOTO OF POETS PARTICIPATING IN THE VIII FESTIVAL
Responsible: Fernando Somarriba, Benjamín Lugo, Fernando Lopez, Bayardo Martinez Saravia and Salomón Alarcón
Place: Atrium of San Francisco Church (stands next to the Bell Tower)
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
CONVERSATORY: CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT AND CENTRAL AMERICAN INTEGRATION
Keynote speaker: Dr. Edgar Chamorro Marin, Executive Director, Central American Integration Secretariat ( SG-SICA).
Commentator: Dr. Roberto Ferrey Echaverry (Chancellor, Universidad de Santo Tomas de Oriente y Mediodia) and Arq. Fernando López Gutierrez
Place: San Francisco Convent, Arcos Hall

9:00 AM – 12:00 NOON
POETRY WORKSHOPS TAUGHT BY POET LUIS ALBERTO AMBROGGIO, sponsored by the U.S. Embassy
AND JUAN CARLOS ABRIL with support from the Spanish Cultural Center
Place: Casa de los tres mundos

3:30 – 5:00 PM
POETRY READING BY POET DEREK WALCOTT, 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature
Place: San Francisco Convent (Arcos Hall)
Presenter: Gioconda Belli
Coordinators: Fernando Lopez, Ligia Morales, Salomón Alarcón and Gloria Gabuardi
Cocktail offered by the NICARAGUAN INSTITUTE OF HISPANIC CULTURE (INCH)

7:00 – 8:00 PM
POETRY READING: Long Live Peace and Solidarity in All Countries of the World!
Place: Independence Square
Presenters: Yaoska Tijerino and Salomon Alarcon
Coordinators: Fernando Lopez and Bayardo Martinez

8:00 – 9:00 PM
PERFORMANCE OF NICARAGUAN FOLKLORIC BALLET (Directed by: Ronald Abud Vivas)
Coordinators: Bayardo Martinez Saravia and Salomón Alarcon
Place: Independence Square

9:00 PM
DINNER offered by the Embassy of the United States of America to the invited poets
Musical entertainment: Los Hijos del Son

FRIDAY, 17 FEBRUARY
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
POETRY READINGS IN THE MUNICIPALITIES
Rivas, Nandaime, Masaya, Nindirí, Catarina, Niquinohomo, Diriomo, Masatepe, San Marcos, Jinotepe, Diriamba, León and Managua.
Place of departure: Casa de Los Leones.
Coordinators: Fernando Lopez, Bayardo Martinez Saravia, Anastasio Lovo, Luis Rocha, Jaime Serrano, Ninoska Chacón, Horacio Navas, Christian Santos, Vida Luz Meneses, Madeline Mendieta, Salomón Alarcón, Yaoska Tijerino

9:00 AM – 12:00 NOON
Poetry reading: Open mike at the Book Fair in tribute to Pablo Antonio Cuadra
Coordinator: Victor Chavarría

10:00 AM
POETRY READINGS IN THE CITY OF GRANADA
Places: INTECNA – COLEGIO SALESIANO – UNIVERSIDAD UHISPAM
Coordinators: Fernando Lopez, Horacio Navas Bravo, and Maria Cecilia Bravo.
2:00 – 5:00 PM
POETRY WORKSHOPS TAUGHT BY POETS LUIS ALBERTO AMBROGGIO AND JUAN CARLOS ABRIL
Place: Casa de los Tres Mundos
Coordinators: Fernando Lopez and Victor Chavarría
3:00 – 5:00 PM
POETRY READINGS IN THE CITY OF GRANADA
Places: POLICE AND ESCUELA SAN ANTONIO
Coordinators: Fernando Lopez and Horacio Navas
6:30 – 8:00 PM
POETRY READING
Place: Independence Square
Coordinators and presenters: Poets Isolda Hurtado and Madeline Mendieta
8:00 – 9:00 PM
Music concert: Singer and songwriter CARLOS MEJÍA GODOY Y LOS DE PALACAGÜINA
Coordinators: Bayardo Martinez and Solomon Alarcon
Place: Independence Square

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18

9:00 AM – 12:00 NOON
POETRY READING – POETIC MARATHON
Place: Central Park
Music concert: Los Hijos del Son
Coordinators: Madeline Mendieta, Jimmy Obando and Hector Avellán
Presenters: Madeline Mendieta and Jimmy Obando

9.00 AM – 12:00 NOON
POETRY WORKSHOP TAUGHT BY THE POET JUAN CARLOS ABRIL
Place: Casa de los Tres Mundos

10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
BOAT TRIP THROUGH THE SMALL ISLETS LOCATED WITHIN THE GREAT LAKE OF NICARAGUA
Departure: Casa de Los Leones
Coordinators: Fernando Lopez and Horacio Navas.

5:00 – 5:30 PM
OFFICIAL CLOSING CEREMONY
DECLARATION OF GRANADA – Reading of the Document of Support of the VIII Granada International Poetry Festival to the nomination of Granada as Heritage of Humanity by the HONORARY PRESIDENT OF THE FESTIVAL and Spanish Ambassador, Mr. León de la Torre y Krais – Reading of the call to the IX Granada International Poetry Festival 2013.

Presided by: Poet Francisco de Asís Fernandez Arellano, President of the Granada International Poetry Festival, Mr. Mario Salinas, Minister of the Nicaraguan Tourism Board, Mr. Leon de la Torre y Krais, Ambassador of Spain, Mr. Eulogio Mejia, Mayor of the City of Granada, Mr. Luis Morales Alonso, Co-Director of the Nicaraguan Institute of Culture, Monsignor Jorge Solórzano, Most Reverend Bishop of the Diocese of Granada, Gioconda Belli, Blanca Castellón and Nicasio Urbina, Vice-Presidents of the Festival; and Mr. Dieter Stadler, Director of Casa de Los Leones.
Place: Independence Square
Coordinator: Fernando Lopez

6:00 – 7:30 PM
POETRY READING
Presenters: Salomón Alarcón and Luz Marina Acosta
Coordinators: Fernando Lopez, Bayardo Martinez, Salomon Alarcon and Gloria Gabuardi

8:30 – 9:30 PM
Music concert: LA CUNETA SON MACHIN
Place: Independence Square
Coordinators: Salomon Alarcon, Bayardo Martinez, Horacio Navas
9:30 – 12:00 PM
FAREWELL COCKTAIL
Delivery of diplomas by the Mayor of Granada to the distinguished visitors.
Place: Casa de Los Leones
Coordinators: Fernando Lopez, Bayardo Martinez, Gloria Gabuardi and Protocol
Musical entertainment: Group Maralej and Los 4 del Solar

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19

DEPARTURE OF GUESTS

Obras
Es autor de los libros Utopía tras el farallón (cuentos, 1998), Piel para una Eva desterrada (poemas, 2003), 37° al sur (cuentos, 2004) y Mi ángel prófugo (poemas, 2006).
Antólogo

Publicaciones: *Antología en audio “Sólo la voz”, El Salvador, 2007; *Antología “Poesía Salvadoreña del siglo XX”, por María Poumier, Francia, 2009; *Antología “Memorias de La Casa”, por Mario Zetino, El Salvador, 2011.

Was born in Wellington, New Zeland. Moved to Dunedin from Auckland, New Zealand where her ancestors arrived in 1880.  Lived and worked in many countries including Iceland and  North Africa. She also writes short stories and novels and has had work published in NZ. She is an amazing poet.

Bronwyn Lea creció en Queensland y Papua Nueva Guinea,  Se mudó  a San Diego para estudiar en la Universidad Estatal de California. Ella ha terminado un doctorado en la Universidad de Queensland y en la actualidad da clases en la Escuela de Ingles. Fue miembro de la Junta de Literatura del Consejo de Australia a partir de 2005-2008.

Born in Osaka on 20th January Keio Univ. BA.  Poet, Teacher

Books: Libros:

Poetry collection“A Red Currant” published in 1997 by Doyobijutsu publisher

Poetry collection“Homage to the light” published in 2003 by Doyobijutsu publisher

Poetry and art collection “The light of lapis lazuli” Collaboration with Kojin Kudo (member of Academy), published in 2003 by Biken International

Poetry collection “The Wind with Me” in 2006 Mongolia by Dr. Mend-Ooyo

Poetry collection “ Over the Endless Night” in 2008 by Yusurika pubulisher

Poetry collection “Cabbage Field & Wind Power Generators” in 2008 by Dumitru

Publication: Annual poetry books and magazines in Japan

Nepal-Japan poem collections, Introduced in U.S.A., Korea, Taiwan, Greece Mongolia, France etc.

Award of Fairy tale 1998

Award of poetry education 1999

Award of literature in Mongolia 2006

Nominated in the Art prize of Curtea de Arges 2008

Award of poetry contest WCP in Acapulco, prize winner 2008

Award of Korean literature 2008

Award of poem WCP in Taiwan, 2010

She organized, Peace on Earth project, 2010

Member of Japan Poet Club, WAAC, WPS, IWA, GHA-Japan.

Ambassador of poetas del mundo.

Fue galardonada, entre otros, con el Premio a Escritoras, el Premio del Ministerio de Cultura para Poetas Principiantes, el Premio al Primer Poemario, el premio del Ministerio de Cultura para Traductores, una medalla del Presidente de Chile por su traducción de Pablo Neruda.

Su obra ha sido traducida a varios idiomas, y antologías de sus poemas se han publicado en Italia, en Francia y en Lituania.

Alfred A. Yuson, nicknamed Krip, has authored 25 books to date, including novels, poetry collections, short fiction, essays, children’s stories, biographies and coffee-table books, apart from having edited various other titles, including several literary anthologies.     He has gained numerous distinctions, including the 2009 Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas from UMPIL or Writers Union of the Philippines, the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan (Stalwart of Art and Culture) award from the City of Manila, a Rockefeller Foundation grant for residency at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Italy, and the SEAWrite (SouthEast Asian Writers) Award from Thai royalty for lifetime achievement. He has also been elevated to the Hall of Fame of the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, the Philippines’ most prestigious literary distinction.  In 2008 his draft manuscript “The Music Child” was shortlisted for the prestigious MAN Asia Prize for the Novel. He is a founding member of the Philippine Literary Arts Council (PLAC), Creative Writing Foundation, Inc. (CWF) and Manila Critics Circle, and served as Chairman of UMPIL (Writers Union of the Philippines). He was a board member of the Movie and Television Ratings and Classification Board (MTRCB) under the Office of the President of the Philippines from 2000 to 2010.

Empezó a escribir en 2001 obras literarias en las revistas “Literatura del ser humano” y “Creación y crítica”. Ha publicado el libro poético “Pierde el tren” y otro de prosa “Oración llamada TÚ”. Se le galardonó en el premio ‘Mejor Libro Literario 2006’ del Comité Coreano de Cultura y Arte por la Antología Poética “Pierde el tren”, también ‘Poema de este año 2004’ por “Jodido mundo”; ‘Poema de este año 2005’ por “Lago de hielo”; ‘Poema de este año 2005’ por “Medio palmo”. Se presentaron sus obras en China, Japón, Vietnam, Mongolia, etc. Es ex vicepresidenta de la sección poética de la Asociación Coreana de Escritores.

is a Chinese poet and translator living in America, educated at Boston College and Boston University and she taught Chinese in Boston and currently resides in Los Angeles. Co-founder and editor of POETRY EAST WEST, an international magazine published in China and USA.  Translator for Lyrikline in Germany. She has published six poetry collections including The Art of Splitting (2009) and Chords Breaking (2010) and has translated many poets from other countries into Chinese. Her book length translation includes “Selected Poems of Ha Jin” (2009), “The Writer as Migrant” (2010), “Missed Time” (2011), “Dancing in Odessa” and “The Book of Things” (coming out soon), and a poetry anthology (expected in 2012). As a poet she has been invited to international poetry festivals in several countries such as Macedonia, Sweden, India, Romania, Japan, China, and USA.

Is widely recognized as a major new generation voice in world literature and one of “the finest younger English-language poets in the international literary scene. A distinct voice: carefully modulated and skilled, well measured and crafted” (BBC Radio). He is fascinated not just by language but the possibilities of language” (Scotland on Sunday). He read English Literature for an honors degree at the University of Delhi & as an Inlaks Scholar received an MS from the Journalism School at Columbia University (New York). His awards, fellowships & residencies include: Hawthornden Fellowship (UK), Pushcart Prize nomination (USA), Bread Loaf (USA), Pleiades (Macedonia), nlpvf  Dutch Foundation for Literature (Amsterdam), Ledig House (New York), Wolfsberg UBS Pro Helvetia (Switzerland), Sanskriti (New Delhi), Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Ireland), and Shanghai Writers Programme (China). He was international writer-in-residence at the Scottish Poetry Library (Edinburgh) & visiting scholar at Harvard University. Sen’s dozen books include: Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), Distracted Geographies, Rain, Aria (A K Ramanujan Translation Award), Letters of Glass, Ladakh, and Blue Nude: Poems & Translations 1977-2012 (Jorge Zalamea International Poetry Award) is forthcoming. He has also edited several important anthologies, including: The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry, The Literary Review Indian Poetry, World Literature Today Writing from Modern India, Midnight’s Grandchildren: Post-Independence English Poetry from India, and others

was born in 1942 in Dhaka. He did his masters degree in English literature from Dhaka University in 1965. He was a public servant by profession and Hayat Saif is his pen name. His family name is Khan and his given names are Saiful Islam. He is one of the major poets of Bangladesh and he is identified with the prolific sixties.   A profoundly modern poet, he has immersed himself in the contemporary global literature as well as the culture and heritage of his own. His refined taste in art and literature has given him a unique poetic diction and a deep insight into our contemporary existence, where, as he regrets, violence plays a crucial role. Hayat Saif has an unusually musical voice of his own with which he takes his readers to a very special world where man may, at least symbolically, be born again in love and beatitude. He is considered as one of the most powerful personalities of the sixties and a serious literary critic. Not only is he renowned for his poetry, he is also known as a prolific prose-writer, who with an unusually rich vocabulary, can express subtle topics in lucid language.

He writes a distinctive kind of poetry which is more cerebral than emotional. Although emotion has its place in his poetry, it is often muted and held in check by the cultivated sensibility of his protagonists. The most distinguishing features of his poetry is the dominance of the word – and unlike many of his contemporaries, he strives to restore the word to its previous glory. His words are carefully, almost deliberately chosen, they are his metaphors and symbols as well as his building blocks. His words are scaffoldings that support his central thought yet the scaffolding becomes, at the end, an inevitable part of the total construction. The dialectic between words and ideas leaves finally to the enactment of a meaning.  He has a very particularized voice one that is studied and well–considered, one that is opinionated and clear and one that reflects the milieu and times he is writing about. His work reflects a discernible trend of high modernism where time, history and place appear  as recurrent motifs. He is quietly meditative, yet sharply reactive to the events around him. Always meditative but emotional too, Hayat Saif has crafted many thoughtful poems on major things such as love and history, not only ratiocinative, but also fastidious about diction, he is the type of poet who is given to experimenting with a wide variety of verse forms

Ella añadió también a la paleta de sus disciplinas artísticas a lo largo de los años, en una diseñadora y restauradora de instrumentos de cuerdas africanas antiguas : (Ngombi, Bagana etc…) Siendo poliglota, ella compone sus poemas siempre en  4 idiomas (Frances, Español, Ingles, y Ouloff su idioma natal).

Es la hija del poeta Franco-senegalesa Charles Carrere, Caballero de Bellas Artes. De origen mestiza, su genealogía remonta hasta Mali, Mauritania, Guinea y Francia, países donde viven sus familiares. Viuda del egiptólogo y arqueólogo camerunés Prince Dika Akwa, las ideas de su marido, patriota y combatiente de las primeras horas de las independencias, su estancia en África Central influyeron mucho en su imaginario poético. Vive con su familia en la pequeña isla, en frente de Dakar: Gorée

Nacido en Tetuán ( Norte de Marruecos 1970 ).

Poeta, traductor y ensayista.

Miembro dela Uniónde Escritores de Marruecos.

Corresponsal de la Revista española ” Al-hucema ” en Marruecos .A finales de los años 80 comenzó a publicar sus poemas en diversas revistas literarias árabes.Parte de su Poesía ha sido traducida al Español y al catalán, y publicada en revistas como : Al-hucema(Granada /España),Río Arga ( Pamplona / España),EL Coloquio de los Perros (Cartagena /España),Tres Orillas (Algeciras / España ),Revista Internacional de Poesía ( Rosario /Argentina).

En2006 hapublicado su primer poemario titulado « acompañado por una montaña ciega »,Poemario en árabe, Ediciones del Ministerio de Cultura, Rabat. Marruecos [2006].El 21 de marzo 2007 obtuvo premio « El primer poemario » concedido porla Casade Poesía en Marruecos sobre el mismo poemario.

En 1995 obtuvo el premio UNESCO de Letras. Participó en el Programa de la Fundación Girace de Creación, octubre del 1995- San Francisco, California.

Is the author of four books of poetry in Arabic: Ittisafat (Characterizations), 1990; Mamarr Mu’tim Yasluh li Ta’allum al-Raqs (A Dark Alley Suitable for Dance Lessons), 1995; al-Mashy Atwal Waqt Mumkin (Walking As Long As Possible), 1997, and Jughrafia Badila (Alternative Geography), 2006. A fifth poetry book is currently in press.  Iman was born in 1966 in the northern Egyptian Delta, and began to publish her poetry at age 16. In Egypt, she edited the cultural and literary reviews Bint al-Ard and Adab wa Naqd for several years before leaving for North America. Mersal relocated to Boston, Massachusetts, USA in 1998 and subsequently moved to Edmonton, Canada where she currently holds a professorial appointment in Arabic literature at the University of Alberta. Selected poems from her oeuvre have been translated into numerous languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch and Italian, and have appeared in journals such as American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, and Paris Review. A selection of Mersal’s work, translated into English by Khaled Mattawa, was published by Sheep Meadow Press in 2008 under the title These Are Not Oranges, My Love.

Poeta, Kama Sywor KAMANDA, ha logrado dar un nuevo soplo y grandiosidad a la poesía contemporánea gracias a la riqueza de su lenguaje y a su dominio de la metáfora. Sus versos, que a menudo compara con las olas del océano, son ciertas veces ventarrones que azotan y dejan sin aliento y otras, suaves brisas que acarician.

Is a Ukrainian poet, essayist, translator, living in New York City since 2000.  He is the author of seven collections of poetry: Skhyma (1993), Caesar’s Solitude (1994), The Book of Hills and Hours (1996), The Flipper of the Fish (2002), 38 Poems about New York and Some Other Things (2004), Cornelia Street Café: New and Selected Poems (2007), Thread and Selected New York Poems (2009),  and most recently Winter Letters (2011). He has also published two books of essays, The Gertrude Stein Memorial Cultural and Recreation Park (2006) and   A Bag was Rolling (2011); two plays, Coney Island (2006) and Bitch/Beach Generation (2007); translated Zbigniew Herbert’s and Janusz Szuber’s poetry from Polish into Ukrainian; and edited an anthology of young Ukrainian poets from the 1990s.  Makhno’s work has been translated into over sixteen languages, and volumes of his selected poems were published in Poland, Romania, and the USA

Lvovsky publicó una colección de poesía, Ruido blanco (Beliy shum), en 1996, una colección de cuentos cortos, Una palabra sobre flores y perros (Slovo o tsvetakh i sobakakh), en 2003, una colección mixta de poesía, traducciones y prosa, Tres meses del año 2 (Tri mesyatsa vtorovo goda), en 2003, una colección de poesía, Poemas sobrela Madre Patria(Stikhi o Rodinye), en 2004, una colección de poesía, Camera Rostrum en 2008 y una novela, Mitad del cielo (Polovina neba) (en coautoría con Linor Goralik en 2004). También es autor de varias traducciones desde el Inglés, (Vytautas Pliura, Charles Bukowsky, Leonard Cohen, Diane Thiel y otros), algunas publicadas y otras no. Su obra de teatro Sixplays, escrita junto a Linor Goralik se representó en el “Theatre.doc” de Moscú.

Ha recibido numerosos honores literarios, incluyendo premios en el “Festival del verso libre” de Moscú (1993), en el concurso literario “Teneta” en Internet (1998, en tres nominaciones) y el premio a la “Mejor poesía nueva del año” en el Moskovskii Schyot del 2003. Fue dos veces finalista del premio Andrey Bely (2005 y 2009). Es director de programa del festival de poesía “SlovoNova” en Perm, Rusia, y representante del Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship Fund.

(Poeta, ensayista, traductor) nació en 1973 en Strumica, Macedonia, como descendiente de los refugiados de las guerras balcánicas del principio del siglo anterior. Su más reciente poemario, Piedra Trasladada (2007) ganó el premio de poesía europea “Hubert Burda”, y el más prestigioso premio macedonio de poesía “Los Hermanos Miladinovci”. Su poesía ha sido traducida a unos treintenos idiomas. Fue redactor de poesía de la revista de literatura y cultura “Esplendor” y es coordinador macedonio de la red internacional de poesía “Lyrikline”. Participó en muchos festivales internacionales de poesía y ganó varios premios y becas internacionales: “International Writing Program (IWP)” en la Universidad de Ayowa en EE.UU.; “Literarisches Tandem” en Berlín; la beca “Villa Waldberta” de Münich, Alemania.

Nacido en San Marco in Lamis (Foggia, 1940), es  hispanista, traductor y editor. Entre algunos de sus trabajos más recientes destacan: Antologia della poesia basca (Crocetti, Milán, 1994), tres volúmenes de Teatro spagnolo contemporáneo. El fuego y las brasas. Poesía italiana contemporánea. Los poetas vengan a los niños y Jardines secretos.. Como poeta ha publicado: Profanazioni. Le parole di sempre (Amadeus, Cittadella, 1994), Contra desilusiones y tormentas (Ediciones Fósforo, Ciudad de México, 2007), Il dono della notte (Passigli, Florencia, 2009, Premio Alessandro Ricci-Città di Garessio, Premio Città di Adelfia, Premio Metauro).  Dirige las colecciones I Quaderni di Abanico y Uni-versi y es editor de I Quaderni della Valle. Entre distinciones y premios recibidos están: el Premio de ensayo y traducción Annibal Caro y el Premio Proa a la trayectoria poética.  En 2003 el rey de España Juan Carlos I le otorgó la encomienda con placa de la orden civil de Alfonso X el Sabio.

Escribe en inglés y castellano, últimamente prefiere el inglés. Ha publicado cuatro poemarios (Celebraciones, Ida y vuelta, Legado de sombras y Últimos ritos), además de poemas, ensayos y traducciones en periódicos y revistas de Venezuela, Colombia, India, Inglaterra, USA y en el internet. En años recientes ha traducido libros y selecciones de poetas venezolanos, en particular de Rafael Cadenas

“Nicaragua Septiembre1978”, y “Antes, Durante y Despues, Chile 5 de Octubre” sobre el plebiscito de 1988 en lo cual los Chilenos votaron en contra Pinochet.

Muchas de sus películas fueron premiadas en festivales de Paris,  Nyons, Figuiera Da Foz, San Francisco,  Mannheim y Leipzig.

Diamand estrenó en 1966 como poeta en la revista más prestigiosa de Holanda De Gids. Publicó dos antologías poéticas en holandés:

“Quien quiere meterse en la tina con Hitler” (van Gennep, 1986) y

“de, El Museo Central de los Sentimientos” (van Gennep, 1989); la antología

“36 Poemas” en ingles, traducido por Gabrielle Lin Friedman (Essential Arts, 2003); y una edición bilingüe bibliofilia de 5 poemas en holandés, traducido por Bert Janssens “Andermaal/Otra Vez” (The Little Archive Press, 1987); y

“Dante´s Invierno no es un brochure de vacaciones”, diez poemas en holandés , traducidos al Inglés por Roger Cliffe-Thompson (Essential Arts, 2007).

También publicó poemas en revistas literarias Holandesas  e Inglesas. Diamand  presentó su poesia en Holanda, Inglaterra e Italia.

He was born and raised in Patras, Greece. He studied Chemical Engineering at the City College and Columbia University in New York City and works in the field of environmental protection.He first appeared on the literary scene with the publication of his poetry in the magazine Parousiasi in Patras in 1967, and during the 1970s he was a regular contributor to the magazine Hydria. He has published the following collections of poetry: Polytropo [Polytrope] (Ostraka, Patras, 1979), Kipos me rizes sto fengari [Garden with Roots in the Moon] (Kastaniotis, Athens, 1996), To aftokinito tis agapis [The Auto-mobile of Love] (Kastaniotis, Athens, 2000), Makrinos peripatos stin Patra [A long walk in Patras] (Melani, Athens, 2007), and a translation of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s These Are My Rivers (Kastaniotis, Athens, 1995).

Christos Tsiamis’ poems, stories and translations have appeared regularly in such magazines as Lexi, (de)kata, Poiisi, and Poetix. English translations of his poetry have appeared in Mondo Greco (Boston), Circumference (New York), and The Dirty Goat (Texas). His work has been included in anthologies such as Elliniki Lyra [Greek Lyre], edited by Vassilis Vassilikos; and A Century of Greek Poetry, edited by Peter Bien, Peter  Constantine, Edmund Keeley and Karen Van Dyck.

He has translated into Greek the poetry of Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Robert Lowell, Louise Gluck, Rita Dove, Paul Muldoon, Octavio Paz and Nicanor Parra.

Actualmente es profesor de literatura en la universidad de Cardiff. Es autor de dos novelas y seis libros de poesía, más recientemente Sad Giraffe Café (2010). Es traductor y editor de The Pterodactyl’s Wing, antología de poesía contemporánea galesa.

Vive en París. Es pianista y acompaña a cantantes de ópera. Participa en recitales de poesía con música improvisada.

Sus Publicaciones: “lunáticos Boulevards” (publicado por Dark Forest,1998), ”El hombre en la bañera”, seguido de ”Las nubes del Tiempo Ordinario” (publicado por la Almendra, 2001), ”Latifa, la niña llorando las palabras ”(cuento musical, la música GagneuxR., editado por Durand, 2000),” y la punta de los ángeles?”(ediciones de la Almendra, 2005),” el cuchillo en el agarre”(ediciones Phi junio de 2007.Sus poemas aparecen en muchas revistas y antologías de poesía (Seghers, calendarios de la poesía francesa, antología el amor de la poesía , antología de poesía erótica, Gallimard, 2011, etc )

Finlandia(1977) is a young and gifted Finland-Swedish poet, whose works are now published in Finnish for the first time. The first part of her selection of poems, Sinä siellä kaukana näytät tutulta (You out there, you look familiar) contains ten poems from her first collection of poetry, På diabilden är huvudet proppfullt av lycka (In the slide the head overflows with joy), while the second part consists of her acclaimed collection, Ödemjuka belles lettres från en till en (Softly destined belles lettres from one to another). The poems have been translated by the praised young poet, Kristiina Lähde. Gripenberg won the Arvid Mörne poetry prize in 1998 and the Stig Carlsson prize in Sweden in 2003

A pesar de que su obra ya había conquistando un amplio espacio de difusión en su propia lengua, es ahora cuando ha comenzado a ser reconocida como una de las voces más originales en el panorama poético español. La publicación en edición bilingüe (gallego-castellano) de su último poemario, Libro de la egoísta (Visor, 2006), le ha permitido conectar con un mayor número de lectores y situarse como un referente de modernidad y renovación en un contexto en que la tendencia mayoritaria del verso en castellano está todavía circunscrita a los registros de la poesía de la experiencia y a aquellas tradiciones que enlazan con la obra de Luis Cernuda y la generación del 50.

Has won three Scottish Arts Council Book Awards for his

poetry and one for his children’s writing. He has also written a travel

book and written radio dramas. From 2001 to 2003 he was the first

writer in residence at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and in

2005 was Poet in Residence as StAnza, St Andrews Poetry Festival.

He has taught in Edinburgh, London, Madrid and Dumfries. Currently,

he is Senior Lecturer at Glasgow University, Crichton Campus, where

he teaches courses in creative writing and storytelling.

Ha publicado cuentos, reportajes, ensayos y ocho poemarios.
Tradujo unos treinta libros de poesía internacional.
Fue organizador el festival internacional de poesía “La Costa Poética” y secretario general del “Congreso Mundial de Literatura”.
Es también asesor del Festival Internacional de Poesía de Granada/Nicaragua, colaborador especial del Festival Internacional de Poesía de Rosario/Argentina y Secretario General del Congreso Mundial de Poetas y de la Academia Mundial de la Poesía del Arte.

Born in Iowa in 1982, Ann Cotten moved to Vienna with her parents at the age of five. She received a degree in German Studies from the University of Vienna in 2006 for work on the ‘Lists of Concrete Poetry’. In the same year she moved to Berlin, where she still lives.

Desde el año 2000 sus textos y dibujos han sido publicados en antologías y revistas como Die Rampe, Kolik, Zwischen den Zeilen y Schreibheft. Su primer libro de poemas salió en 2007.  Esta colección hizo que los críticos la nombraran como la niña prodigio de la poesía alemana de la época. Su segundo libro, Florida-Raume, se publicó en 2010. En ese año Cotten también colaboró con el artista visual Kerstin Cmelka en un libro llamado Yo, Coleoptile que consiste en poesía en inglés y tomas fijas de films.

Since 2000 her texts and drawings have been published in anthologies and magazines such as Die Rampe, Kolik, Zwischen den Zeilen andSchreibheft. Her first volume of poetry, Fremdwörterbuchsonette, came out in 2007. The collection impressed critics that she was dubbed the Wunderkind of the German poetry scene. Her second volume of poetry, Florida-Räume, was published in 2010. In 2010, Cotten also collaborated with visual artist Kerstin Cmelka on a book called I, Coleoptile, which consists of original English poetry and film stills.

La poesía de Ann Cotten parece desarrollarse como un fácil juego, sin embargo ha un poder omnipresente en sus textos. A veces hermética, pero siempre ligera y sin manerismos, sus textos reflejan una inmediatez que se expresa en un discurso poético muy natural.
Ann Cotten’s poetry appears to evolve out of a playful effortlessness, yet there is an exceptional and omnipresent power in her texts. Sometimes hermetic, but always light and unmannered, her texts convey an immediacy that appears like natural poetic speech.