Ποιειν Και Πραττειν - create and do

The World Poetry Movement was founded in the context of the World Gathering of Directors from 37 International Poetry Festivals, held in Medellin, Colombia, between July 8th, 2011.

There they discussed the connection between poetry and peace, the reconstruction of the human spirit, the reconciliation and recovery of nature, the unity and cultural diversity of peoples, material poverty and poetic justice, and possible actions to take in favor of the globalization of poetry.

A month later, the World Poetry Movement has been joined by 85 international poetry festivals and 450 poets from 95 countries from all continents.

One of the goals is to include most of the strongest international poetry festivals, poets, schools of poetry and printed and virtual publications, to increase our mutual cooperation and thus energize the individual and collective voice of poetry in our time.

Peter Rorvik (South Africa), Bas Kwakman (Netherlands), Jack Hirschman (USA), Rati Saxena (India), Amir Or (Israel), Alex Pausides (Cuba), Iryna Vikyrchak (Ukraine), Fernando Rendón (Colombia)

WORLD POETRY MOVEMENT

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We invite all WPM participants to get involved actively with the organizing taks, inviting more poets, festivals and poetic organizations to join WPM, to be prepared for the poetry readings of february 29th and march 21st throughout the world and to develop personal and collective projects for the poetry to influence devisively in contemporary society. We are waiting for your messages on: worldpoetrymovement@gmail.com

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