Venezuela Poetry Festival will bring together 35 international poets

The sector vice president of Communication, Culture and Tourism of Venezuela, Freddy Ñáñez, announced this Wednesday that the next 16th World Poetry Festival, based in that South American country, will bring together 35 poets from some 30 nations.

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During a press conference offered by members of the Organizing Committee of the event, the deputy president indicated that the Simón Bolívar Theater in Caracas (capital) will be the main venue for the activities, which will take place from October 13 to 20.

In this sense, he indicated that the purpose of the meeting is for the participants to intervene with their prose, call for creation and establish links through the word between the different cultures that will be present.

Ñáñez evoked the poetic sensibility of the Liberator Simón Bolívar, when he wrote the poem Mi Delirio sobre El Chimborazo on October 13, 1822, in a context of struggle for the independence of the continent.

“It seems unthinkable that the Liberator on the road, on the march to the liberation of a continent, could have had time to express one of the prose poems with romantic overtones that has ever been written, which was also an epic and aesthetic testament that marked the spirituality of our liberating company”, he emphasized.

For his part, the Minister of People’s Power for Culture, Ernesto Villegas, reported that the Festival will be extended to the entire country, and highlighted the role that animators and collaborators of the Cultural Mission will play in bringing poetry to public spaces.

“We go to all corners of the country with the verses, with the international guests, with the national poets and with the men and women who, without calling themselves poets, are amateurs, lovers of poetry,” assured the head of the Culture portfolio.

The president of the Casas de las Letras Andrés Bello, William Osuna, recalled that the initiative was created 16 years ago by Commander Hugo Chávez Frías and has become a tradition of cultural policy in Venezuela.

Osuna announced that this edition will be dedicated to the national poet Ana María Oviedo, a native of the state of Trujillo, who extols Venezuelan poetry to “a maximum degree” to dialogue with any Hispanic or world poetry.

Likewise, it was announced that among the collateral activities there will be an anti-imperialist tribune with more than 140 cultural activists including poetry readings, musical concerts, as well as conferences, book presentations and talks in tribute to the bicentennial of the Bolivarian poem Mi delirio sobre el Chimborazo.