The many languages ​​of poetry

The appointment is for 14 and 15 June 2024 at the Roman Villa and Antiquarium in Desenzano del Garda, for the third edition of the "The many languages ​​of poetry" Festival. Many international guests, many surprises, much poetry. Within the Festival there will also be space for a "Poetic Stage", on Saturday morning 15 June, in Sirmione, at the Grotte di Catullo: the poets invited to the event will visit the archaeological area of ​​Sirmione and will hold, at 12.30, a poetic improvisation in the "Campo delle Noci". The program is very large: Francis Combes (France), Roberto Deidier (Italy), Tarek Eltayeb (Sudan/Austria), Sinan Gudžević (Serbia), Barbara Korun (Slovenia), Genny Lim (United States), Ada Salas (Spain). In videos they will be remembered: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Martin Matz, Jack Hirschman and Alfonso Gatto, Leonard Cohen, Mario Benedetti and Daniel Viglietti, Francisca Aguirre, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Smith. During the event, a memory of Domenico Carrara, a young poet who died prematurely (Atripalda 1987 – Val Camonica 2021). Poets and poets from the Balkans, North Africa, France, the Americas, Spain and the Near East will arrive in the wonderful scenery of Lake Garda and the Roman Villa of Desenzano, where history and myth intertwine in traces of a thousand-year-old culture and here they will read their verses in the original language. The intent, the profound meaning that underlies the entire project, is to contribute to building a culture of meeting, relationships, exchange and hospitality. Ensuring that diversity can be experienced as a lifeblood for discussion, which is the basis of the peace process and cooperation between peoples. The appointments will therefore be the meeting place between different people, but also between a real place and a utopia, so that poetry, like a magnificent rainy day, can contribute to reducing the distance between heaven and earth. But above all it is the journey of imagination and desire, the landing not as an end but as the beginning of a new journey, which modern sailors perhaps no longer make on the water, but in the ether, to continue to meet again.

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14 and 15 June 2024 at 9.00 pm Villa Romana in Desenzano del Garda International meetings: Francis Combes (France) Roberto Deidier (Italy) Tarek Eltayeb (Egypt-Sudan-Austria) Sinan Gudžević (Serbia) Barbara Korun (Slovenia) Genny Lim (United States) Ada Salas (Spain) 15 June 2024 at 12.30 Sirmione, at the Grotte di Catullo: poetic improvisation in the “Campo delle Noci”.

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