World Poetry Festival will kick off this Monday raising its voice for Palestine

Published at: 14/07/2025 10:23 AM

The nineteenth World Poetry Festival of Venezuela begins this Monday, July 14 and closes on the 20th of the same month in Caracas, to raise your voice, with verses and music that defend life and culture on the planet, under the motto “Place of Stay”, and to honor the poet and musician Belén Ojeda and the people of Palestine as a guest country.

The activities will begin this Monday, the 14th, at 10:00 a.m., at the Andrés Bello National House of Letters, with a recital by the young winners of the second Reynaldo Pérez Só National Poetry Contest, and the award ceremony of the same. It will also feature young poets Sebastián Mendoza, Yusdeibi Rodríguez, Angelis Granadillo, Nicole Rojas, Salvador Tiberi, Alana Guzmán.

At 6:00 p.m., in the José Félix Ribas room of the Teresa Carreño Theater (TTC), there will be an opening recital with the poets: Reshma Ramesh (India), Agustín Guambo (Ecuador), Yuri Patiño (Venezuela), Ashur Etwebi (Libya), Sokhna Benga (Senegal), Ernesto Román Orozco (Venezuela), Esmeralda Torres (Venezuela), Huu Viet (Vietnam), and Antonio Trujillo (Venezuela). Along with the presentation of the musicians Piako and Edgar Padrón.

For Tuesday 15 at 10:00 a.m., at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CELARG), there will be two activities: the recital entitled Poets of Our America, with the writers Heyk Pimenta (Brazil), Melissa Sauma (Bolivia), María Virginia Guevara (Venezuela), Agustín Guambo (Ecuador), Wingston González (Guatemala), Shirley Villalba (Paraguay), Memo Acuña (Costa Rica), and Coral Pérez (Cuba/Venezuela); and the presentation of the book “Minimal calligraphy” by Ojeda, published by Ediciones Acirema, moderated by the poet Leonardo Gustavo Ruíz.

At 6:00 p.m. on the same day, the Palestine Night activity will begin, in the José Félix Ribas room of the TTC, with the poets Nabiha Hamid, Ali Al Amerí, Mohammed Khdour, Najy Juma Najy, Nasser Attaallah, Ahlam Bashrat, Yousef Abdelaziz, Ghada Khalil, and Murad Sudani.

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