Saturday 18.12.2021 EVENT 716:00 - 18:30 Poetry Readings: Greek PoetsModerator: Maria Rosa Caracausi (Italy)Participants:George Veis / Γιώργος ΒέηςIossif Ventura / Ιωσήφ ΒεντούραςGeorge Georgoulas / Γιώργος ΓεωργούλαςThanos Gogos / Θάνος ΓώγοςKostas ...

Saturday 18.12.2021 EVENT 611:00 - 13:30 Poetry Readings: Greek PoetsModerator: Anna Afentoulidou / Άννα ΑφεντουλίδουParticipants:Anna Afentoulidou / Άννα ΑφεντουλίδουSpyros L. Vrettos / Σπύρος Λ. ΒρεττόςGiorgos Gotis / Γιώργος ΓώτηςLeonidas Kakarogl...

Friday 17.12.2021 EVENT 519:30 – 22:00 Poetry Readings: Greek PoetsModerator: Chloe Koutsoumpeli / Χλόη ΚουτσουμπέληParticipants:Chloe Koutsoumpeli / Χλόη ΚουτσουμπέληTriantafyllos H. Kotopoulos / Τριαντάφυλλος Η. ΚωτόπουλοςGeorge Blanas / Γιώργος Μπ...

Friday 17.12.2021 EVENT 416:00 – 18:30 Poetry Readings: Poets from AboardModerator: Konstantinos Bouras (Greece)Participants:Argentina Ana ArzoumanianBolivarian Ana María Oviedo PalomaresSpain Luis García MonteroSpain Andrés Sánchez RobaynaBulgaria R...

Friday 17.12.2021 EVENT 311:00 – 13:30 Poetry Readings: Poets from AboardModerator: Tzina Kalogirou (Greece)Participants:Malta Elizabeth GrechSpain Miguel VeyratItaly Aldo GerbinoJapan Mari KashiwagiKurdistan Hussein HabaschNorth Macedonia Vladimir M...

Wednesday 15.12.2021 EVENT 1 – opening16:00 – 18:30 Poetry Readings: Greek PoetsModerator : Nikos Fotopoulos Nίκος Φωτόπουλος (Greece)Participants:Nikos Fotopoulos / Nίκος ΦωτόπουλοςFani Athanasiadou / Φανή ΑθανασιάδουGeorgia Velivasaki / Γεωργία Βελ...

Wednesday 15.12.2021 EVENT 219:30 – 22:00 Poetry Readings: Poets from AboardModerator: Eleni Artemiou-Fotiadou (Cyprus)Participants:Argentina Leopoldo CastillaBolivia Paura Rodríguez LeytonColombia Henry Alexander GómezColombia Piedad BonnetCroatia A...

Wednesday 15.12.2021 EVENT 1 – opening16:00 – 18:30 Poetry Readings: Greek PoetsModerator : Nikos Fotopoulos Nίκος Φωτόπουλος (Greece)Participants:Nikos Fotopoulos / Nίκος ΦωτόπουλοςFani Athanasiadou / Φανή ΑθανασιάδουGeorgia Velivasaki / Γεωργία Βελ...

4TH Patras World Poetry Festival13-19/12/2021 on line www.culturebook.grΘέατρο Επίκεντρο+ – Αγορά Αργύρη "CONFINEMENT – FREEDOM - HUMAN REVOLUTIONS"ΕΓΚΛΕΙΣΜΟΣ – ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ – ΠΡΟΣΩΠΙΚΕΣ ΕΠΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΕΙΣ AGENDAΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑ15-18/12/2021 POETRY READINGS & RO...

Nama Abdelrazig K. Abdalla, LibyaThe PoemsThe Country's Womb A tear on the country's cheekIs not enoughFor it doesn't grow fear in a heartCured with saltAnd dried with tanoor's* heatLike soft bread.For it doesn't wipe a tattoo offThe forehead of...

Ahlam Bsharat, PalestineThe PoemsI Am Watermelon, I Am LambMy family used me to drink water,they thought I was a tin cup.This goes back to the day I cupped my palm in prayer,and to the times I'd fallen but didn't break.A deep gash in my left leg left...

Dimitris Kosmopoulos, GreeceThe PoemsFlight His favourite game was to cut out bird shapes from newspaper pages. Small ones and larger ones, some with open wings others ona branch.Later, he placed them in a white chest under the bed. At night,&nb...

Ana Maria Oviedo Palomares, Bolivarian Republic of VenezuelaThe PoemsTINDUF ROSESWe are the root that resistsbelow the sand,tangled in phosphate,impossible to tear from the ground, even if they take everything.We are keeping multiplying everywhereI s...

Nthabiseng JahRose Jafta, South AfricaThe PoemsIt's in our namesA child bearing gifts as I trot the earth To unknot life's mysteriesEvery branch in the family tree has a name.Ke theoha kgulong la Matselane le Mpho I am a native to Mother of Journeys ...

Aldo Gerbino, ItalyThe PoemsItineraries, 2The gene of death is dozing under these dunes of cerealsof awns, along itineraries of coleoptersthrough a sky almost without history.I can perceive this sorrow kneaded with tirednesswith aboulia fed by the fi...

Thomas Tsalapatis, GreeceThe PoemsPoachers  Lord lord how I want to write a little poem(Bon dieu de bon dieu que j'ai envie d'écrire un petit poème)Raymond Queneau It is oh so hardTo catch a poemJust common knowledgePoems preferto distance thems...

Barbara Pogačnik, SloveniaThe PoemsTO CATCH A TAIL Suddenly, I see a fish behind the wheelof a tram coming towards me. InstantlyI find myself in the driver's seatof my red and green tram. The rusty wheels gurgle brightly, as does the water under the ...

Antonis D. Skiathas, GreeceThe PoemsThe salpinxThere are,days with sobs like heaversin nocturnal patrols,there are,nights with brothers slaughteredin blasphemies of consciousness,there are lives with workers mailing birth painsand desires bulimic to ...

Ko Un, South KoreaThe PoemsThe WhisperRain falls.I sit at my desk.The desk quietly says:Once I was a flower, was a leaf, was a stalk.I was a long root beneath the groundthat stretched as far as yonder desert oasisA scrap of iron on the desk says:I wa...

Esta Razou, GreeceThe PoemsAround me the earth gives birth toperfumesInside me their juicesthe flavorslike a pirate treasure chestfar from prying eyes,hiddenAnd you?Which flavorempowers you and keeps you far from me?Which juices drip in the minddepth...