Some 130 poets from 58 countries will be at the VI International Poetry Festival of Nicaragua

Sunday, 7 February, 01:58 PM Managua, 7 feb (EFE) .- At least 130 poets from 58 countries will participate in the Sixth International Poetry Festival to be held from 14 to 21 February in the Nicaraguan colonial city of Granada, organizers confirmed today. The festival will be dedicated this edition to the late Nicaraguan poet Azariah H. Pallais (1884-1954), said chairman of the event, the Bard Francis Fernandez, in a statement. The theme of this sixth edition, which aims to disseminate the quality of the poetry of Nicaragua, will be "Poetry is the angel of the imagination, "said De Asis Fernandez. The source stressed that participate in this festival, among others, the Trappist Nicaraguan poet and priest Ernesto Cardenal, proposed by the General Society of Authors and Publishers (SGAE) for the Nobel Prize for Literature 2010. Other poets are invited Raúl Zurita (Chile), Jotamario Arbelaez (Colombia), Carlos Lopez (Peru), Amiri Baraka (USA), José Emilio Pacheco (Mexico), Nancy Morejon (Cuba), Rosa Maria Chavez (Guatemala), Roxana Méndez (El Salvador), Antonio Gamoneda Benjamin Prado (Spain). Djurdjevich addition Milos (Croatia), Ersi Sotiropoulos (Greece), Bassry Aicha (Morocco), Gahassan Zaqtan (Palestine), Chen Li (Taiwan), Marjorie Evasco ( Philippines), Lasse Soderberg (Sweden), and Ganston Saint-Fleur, a survivor of the earthquake in Haiti. During the festival, the Nicaraguan poet and writer Gioconda Belli, author of Infinity in the palm of your hand, "Laureate Seix Barral Biblioteca Breve 2008, will present his new book "Scandal of honey." The Spanish poet Daniel Rodríguez Moya, meanwhile, the anthology show "100 years of Nicaraguan poetry" whose idea was born from the publisher viewer, one of the most important Spanish and Hispanic area in the publication of poetry, said the source. As part of this event will be a carnival parade with all the manifestations of Nicaraguan folklore, known as "poetic carnival, which is a festive event, in which he is a poet who is moving up a bard different in each corner and recite his poetry, he said. also developed a book fair and a craft, and a musical concert with local artists, he added. The first festival, in 2005, was dedicated to the bard Nicaraguan Joaquin Pasos (1914-1947) and the work of Trappist priest and poet Ernesto Cardenal Martinez. The 2006 edition was in honor of the poet José Coronel Urtecho (1906-1994), the 2007 Paul Antonio Cuadra (1912-2002), the 2008 Salomon de la Selva (1893-1959), and last year Alfonso Cortes (1893-1969), all Nicaraguans. Another objective of the festival, organizers say, is insist on declaring Grenada Cultural and Ecological Heritage of Humanity by the Organization of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco), and promote a positive image of Nicaragua in the world. Granada, located in the Pacific , 45 miles southeast of Managua, is one of the main tourist destinations in Nicaragua and more historical and cultural wealth of this country. Among its natural resources has the Great Lake of Nicaragua with several islets, towering the paradise islands of Ometepe and Zapatera, with its volcanoes Concepcion and Maderas. Average (Not Rated)