Dear Raffaella and dear Sergio, I would like you to convey to whoever cares for poetry and, be it an individual or an organization, can help in any way the realization of your projects, my desire to see your work in your community and beyond continue and prosper. Year after year I noticed, with joy, that you two represent what is best for culture: freedom of decision, passion for poetry and the arts, and a profound sense that the world has, in order to remain civilized, keep alive its writers and artists by providing them an audience or publication of their works. You do imaginative projects, independent of the snobishness that caracterizes usually the multiple festivals we know.
You work hard because you believe in the human spirit, you invite always poets and writers of great value and you take personal pleasure in reaching out to those who have not only great talent but who are also great humanists. It is for me one of the joys in my life to have met you and to have sometimes join you in your activities. So I am gratefully yours
Etel Adnan, poet, writer, painter



















































































































