The Poetas festival is a national and international meeting point for alternative works by artists of words. It allows many poets, publishers and cultural managers to gain deeper knowledge of new expressions.
The festival takes place every year in Madrid and a Latin American country. The guest country in 2016 is Puerto Rico.
One of the aims of the festival is to stress the internationalisation of the sector. The choice of guests, be they poets or publishers, is made by curators who enjoy prestige in their country of origin and have a long experience in the fields of cultural management or publishing.
Interaction between national and international guests is based chiefly on exporting Spanish poetry to other countries and their participation in foreign festivals, as well as on facilitating knowledge of authors to be subsequently translated and published.
AC/E is taking part in the festival through its visitors’ programme, by supporting the participation of publishers, critics and programmers of the leading poetic media and festivals: Timo Berger (German translator and programmer), Helen Johnson (Poetry & Words, Glastonbury), Valerio Sciatto (CRACK FUMETTI fanzine and self-publishing festival, Rome), Silvia Terrón (Spain Now! and ‘Alba Magazine’, Paris), Washington Cucurto (Eloisa Cartonera publishers) and Matvei Yankelevich (Ugly Duckling Press, United States), which marks an opportunity to internationalise Spain’s current poetry production.
The festival takes place every year in Madrid and a Latin American country. The guest country in 2016 is Puerto Rico.
One of the aims of the festival is to stress the internationalisation of the sector. The choice of guests, be they poets or publishers, is made by curators who enjoy prestige in their country of origin and have a long experience in the fields of cultural management or publishing.
Interaction between national and international guests is based chiefly on exporting Spanish poetry to other countries and their participation in foreign festivals, as well as on facilitating knowledge of authors to be subsequently translated and published.
AC/E is taking part in the festival through its visitors’ programme, by supporting the participation of publishers, critics and programmers of the leading poetic media and festivals: Timo Berger (German translator and programmer), Helen Johnson (Poetry & Words, Glastonbury), Valerio Sciatto (CRACK FUMETTI fanzine and self-publishing festival, Rome), Silvia Terrón (Spain Now! and ‘Alba Magazine’, Paris), Washington Cucurto (Eloisa Cartonera publishers) and Matvei Yankelevich (Ugly Duckling Press, United States), which marks an opportunity to internationalise Spain’s current poetry production.
