Allied festivals
A
Al-Marbid Poetry Festival in Basra
Iraq
Founded at 2004
Annikki Poetry Festival
Finland
Jyrki Ihalainen, poet and director: [email protected]
Annual biennial of poets in Moscow
Russia
Founded in 2001
Annual Drushkininkai Poetic Fall Festival in Lithuania
Lituania. Founded in 1990
Email: [email protected]
Kornelijus Plateles, poet an representative
Annual Valley International Poetry Festival & “Poetry Pachanga IV”
United States
Fouded at 2007 and 2008
Founder: Daniel García Ordaz
Email: [email protected]
Apple & Snakes | Hit the Ode
England
Bohdan Piasecki [email protected]
Argonauti nel Golfo degli Dei and Altramarea Poetry Festival
Italy
Angelo Tonelli, poet an director of poetry festivals: [email protected]
Ars Poetica International Poetry Festival
Slovakia
Founded in 2003. Director: Martin Solotruk: [email protected]
Australian Poetry Festival at Sydney
Australia
Founded at 1999
Founder: Brook Emery
Email: [email protected]
B
Barcelonapoesía
Spain
Founded in 1984
Biennale internationale des poètes en Val-de-Marne
Francis Combes, Director
Biennale de Poésie en Rhônes-Alpes
France
Founded in 1988
Dimitri Porcu, coordinator.
Email : [email protected]
Biennale Internationale de Poésie de Dakar
Sénégal
Founded in 1998
Director : Amadou Lamine Sall
Bilbao Poesía
Spain
Brutal International Poetry Festival
Croatia
Silvestar Vrljić, poet and representative: [email protected]
C
Calabash International Literary Festival
Jamaica
Kwame Dawes, poet and representant
Carrboro International Poetry Festival
United States
Founded at 2005
Cosmopoética
Spain
Founded in 2004.
Curtea de Arges Poetry Nights
Rumania
Founded in 1997
Director: Carolina Ilica
D
Descentralización Poética, Encuentro Itinerante de Poesía de Chile
Chile
Oscar Saavedra poet and director, Marcela Saldaño, René Silva, Eduardo Leyton, Juan José Podesta, Alejandra Contreras, Cristian Saldivia, Poli Roa
[email protected]
Delhi International Literary Festival and Aark Arts
India
Sudeep Sen, poet and director: [email protected]
Delhi Literary Festival
India
Ashok Vajpeyi
[email protected]
DLR Poetry Now International Poetry Festival
Ireland, Dublin
Dún Laoghaire, Ireland. Founded at 2009
Dnevi poezije in vina -Festival Days of Poetry and Wine
Founded in 1996
Slovenia
Jelka Ciglenečki, poet and director: [email protected]
Dubai International Poetry Festival
Founded at 2009
Jamal Khalfan bin Huwaireb
E
Ehalakasa Spoken Word Poetry Festival
Ghana
Yebor Kojo Yebor, poet and director: [email protected]
Encuentro de Poesía Caracol
México, Tijuanaco
Yohanna Jaramillo: [email protected]
Encuentro Hispanoamericano de Poesía Independiente en la Ciudad de Mexico
Mexico
Iliana Godoy, poet and president, Grupo Cultural Floricanto A.C. [email protected]
Encuentro de Poetas del Mundo Latino de México
Founded in 1986
Encuentro Internacional de Poesía de la Universidad de Carabobo
Venezuela
Founded at 2002
Encuentro Internacional de Literatura 3 Orillas
Spain
Samir Delgado, poet and coordinator: [email protected]
Encuentro Internacional de Poesía Occidente
Costa Rica
Guillermo Naranjo, director: [email protected]
Encuentro Internacional de Poesía de Zamora Cultura, Arte y tradición, A.C. de Zamora
Mexico
Roberto Reséndiz Carmona, poet and director: [email protected]
Encuentro Internacional de Poetas El Turno del Ofendido
El Salvador
Founded at 2004
Director: Otoniel Guevara
David Juárez Quintanilla
Encuentro Internacional de Poetas ChilePoesía
Chile
Founded at 2001
Director: José María Memet
Encuentro Iberoamericano de Poesía Carlos Pellicer
Mexico, Tabasco.
Founded at 2006
Encuentro Latinoamericano de Poesía en Veracruz
Mexico
Sergio Villasana Delfín, Presidente
F
Fajr International Poetry Festival
Iran
Founded at 2007
Festival Acadien de Poésie,
Canada
Founded in 1997
[email protected]
Festival Atlántico de Poesía
Spain, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Juan Francisco González-Díaz, poet and president: [email protected]
Festival de Perfopoesía
Spain
Funded at 2008
Coordinador: poet Antonio García Villarán
Facebook: Perfopoesia
Festival Poesía en el Laurel
Spain, Granada
Pedro Enríquez, poet and director: [email protected]
Festival de la Parole Poétique, Sémaphore
France
Founded at 2006
President: Corinne Moign
Email: [email protected]
Festival de la poésie de Montréal (FPM)
Canada
Face: festivaldelapoesiedemontreal
Twitter: festpoesiemtl
Festival de Nueva Poesía Poetas en Nueva York
United States
Karla Coreas, poet and coordinator [email protected]
Festival de Poesía a Cielo Abierto
Chile, Valparaíso
Oscar Petrel, poet and general coordinator, Andrés Urzúa de la Sottta, poet: [email protected]
Festival de Poesia de la Mediterrània
Spain
Face: @festivalPOESIAmediterrania
Twitter: PoesiaMed
Festival de Poesía de Lima
Peru
John Martinez, poet an director
Festival de Poesía en el Centro
Argentina, Buenos-Aires
Founded at 2009
Email: [email protected]
Festival de Poesía en la Escuela
Argentina
Alejandra Correa, Marisa Negri, poets and directors
Festival de Poesía en la Montaña
Dominican Republic
Tati Hernández, poet and director: [email protected]
Faceboo: festivalpoeticodelamontana/
Festival de Poesía Latinoamericana en Viena
Austria
Founded at 2001
Director: Enrique Moya
Festival de Poesía Que no Callen los Poetas
México
Eduardo González, poeta y director [email protected]
Festival de poésie de Namur
Belgium
Founded at 2004
Maison de la Poésie de Namur
Email: [email protected]
Festival Días de Poesía
Bolivia
Daniel Calderón, Samantha Bryce, poets and directors [email protected]
Festival Franco-Anglais de Poésie et de la Revue «La Traductière»
Paris
Founded in 1976
Jacques Rancourt, poet and director
Festival Internacional de Escritores Carruaje de Pájaros
Mexico, Chiapas
Fernando Trejo, poet and director, Balam Rodrigo Pérez Hernández, literary coordinator , [email protected]; [email protected]
Festival Internacional de la Poesía de Colima
Mexico
Founded in 2007
Festival Internacional de Poesía Ars Amandi de Panamá
Panama
Founded in 2010
Director: Consuelo Tomás
Festival Internacional de Poesía de Bogotá
Colombia
Founded in 1992
Director: Rafael Del Castillo [email protected]
Festival Internacional de Poesía de Buenos Aires
Argentina
Foundead in 2005
Coordinator: Graciela Aráoz
Email: [email protected]
Festival Internacional de Poesía de Cali
Colombia
Organized by Red de Bibliotecas Públicas de Cali
Email: [email protected]
Festival Internacional de Poesía de Cartagena
Colombia
Fundado en 1996
Director: Martín Salas Ávila
Email: [email protected]
Festival Internacional de Poesía de Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Fundado en 2002
Director: Norberto Salinas
Email: [email protected]
Festival Internacional de Poesía de Granada
España
Founded in 2004
Contacto: Fernando Valverde
Email: [email protected]
Festival Internacional de Poesía de Lima
Peru
Renato Sandoval, poet and director
Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín
Colombia
Founded in 1991.
Organized by Corporación de Arte y Poesía Prometeo
Director: Fernando Rendón
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Festival Internacional de Poesía de La Habana
Cuba
Founded in 1996
Alex Pausides, general coordinator
Email: [email protected]
Festival Internacional de Poesía del Caribe PoeMaRío
Colombia
Founded in 2007
Responsables: Aníbal Tobón Bermúdez. Miguel Iriarte.
Email: [email protected]
Festival Internacional de Poesía de Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Founded at 2009, by Vicente Rodríguez Nietzsche.
Directora: Vilma Reyes.
Email: [email protected]
Festival Internacional de Poesía de Rosario
Argentina
Founded at 1993
Curatorship: Tomás Boasso, Rocío Muñoz Vergara, Carolina Musa.
Email: festdepoesia.rosario@gmailcom
Festival Internacional de Poesía de San Cugat
Spain, Cataluña
Founded at 2001
Fundado por Alex Susanna en 1998.
Festival Internacional de Poesía de Santo Domingo
República Dominicana
Founded at 2008
President: José Mármol Email: [email protected]
Director Ejecutivo: Mateo Morrison Email: [email protected]
Festival Internacional de Poesía de Quetzaltenango
Guatemala
Director: Marvin García
Email: [email protected]
Festival Internacional de Poesía en Bolivia
Bolivia
Founded at 2010
Director: Benjamin Chávez
Email: [email protected]
Festival Internacional de Poesía Grito de Mujer y de Movimiento Mujeres Poetas Internacional –MPI-
Dominican Republic
Jael Uribe, poet and president,
Festival Internacional de Poesía Ileana Espinel Cedeño
Ecuador, Guayaquil
Augusto Rodríguez, director del Festival [email protected]
Festival Internacional de Poesía Luna de Locos
Colombia, Pereira
Founded at 2007
Director: Giovanni Gómez
Emails: [email protected] / [email protected]
Festival Internacional de Poesía Palabra en el Mundo
Founded in 2007
Contact: Gabriel Impaglione
Email: [email protected]
Contacto: Tito Alvarado Email: [email protected]
Facebook: festivalpalabraenelmundo/
Festival Internacional de Poesía Palabra en el mundo en Chiapas. Encuentro Internacional de Poetas e Investigadores
Mexico
Marisa Trejo Sirvent, Presidenta del Comité Organizador
Festival Internacional de Poesía Penonomé en Abril
Panama
Vasco Franco, poet and director
Festival Internacional de Videopoesia Videobardo
Argentina
Javier Robledo, director: [email protected]
Festival Internacional Poesía del Atlántico
Argentina
Carlos Enrique Cartolano, director
Festival International d’Art et de Poésie de Molsheim
France
Founded in 2000
Festival International de Poésie 3V
Cameroon
Founded in 2007 by Marcel Kemadjou Njanke
Festival International de Poésie de Casablanca
Morocco
Founded in 1998
Director: Mehdi Akhrif
Festival International de la Poésie, Trois-Rivières
Canada
Founded at 1985
Maryse Baribeau, director.
Email: [email protected]
Founder: Gaston Bellemare
Festival International de Poésie de Vitrolle
France
Founded at 2010
Festival Internazionale di Poesia di Genova
Italy
Founded at 1995
Claudio Pozzani, director. Email: [email protected]
Festival Itinérant de Poésie Internationale en Afrique (FIPIA)
Founded in 1997
Contact: Paul Dakeyo
Festival Lo Spirito dei Luoghi
Italy
Sergio Iagulli, Raffaella Marzano, poets y coordinators: [email protected]
Festival Mundial de Poesía de Venezuela
Venezuela
Founded at 2004
Festival Nacional al Sur está la Poesía
Cuba
Alejandro Aguilar Arteaga, poet and coordinator
Festival Northrop Frye
Canada, Moncton, Nouveau-Brunswick
Founded in 2000
Samuel Levlanc, director
Email: [email protected]
Festival Ottobre in Poesia
Italy, Sardegna
Leonardo Onida, poet and director: [email protected]
[email protected]
Festival Poesia Presente
Switzerland
Fabiano Alborguetti, artistic director
[email protected]
G
Gerard Manley Hopkins Society
Ireland, Newbridge
Founded at 1988
Email: [email protected]
Goolwa Poetry Festival
Australia, Goolwa
Founded at 2007
Director: Paul Kooperman
Goran’s Spring
International Poetry Festival in Goranovo -Goranovo Proljeće
Croacia
Founded in 1963
E-mail: [email protected]
Marko Pogacar, poet an representative
Gran Slam Barcelona | Poetry Slam Barcelona
Spain
Marta Torras
H
Hannover Poetry Slam | Weitersagen
Germany
Tobias Kunze
Horn of Africa International Poetry Festival
Zolani Mkiva
HOWL! Festival
United States
Bob Holman, poet and vicepresident:
[email protected]
I
Incontri Internazionali di Poesia di Sarajevo
Bosnia
Sergio Iagulli, Raffaella Marzano, poets and directors: [email protected]
International Festival of Poetry of Resistance -IFPOR-
Canada, Toronto
Founded at 2009
Contact: Carlos Angulo-Rivas
International Istanbul Poetry Festival
Turkey
Founded at 1991.
Director: Hüseyin Keskin
Email: [email protected]
International Literary Festival Romeo si Julieta la Mizil
Romania
Badicioiu Laurentiu, director: [email protected]
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International Poetry Festival Al-Mutanabbi
Iraq
Founded at 2001
Director: Ali Al-Shala
Emails: [email protected]
Facebook: InternationalesFestivalAlMutanabbi
International Poetry Festival Europa in Versi
Italy, Como
Laura Garavaglia, organizer: [email protected]
International Poetry Festival in Cagliari – Traghetti di Poesia–
Italy
International Poetry Festival of Bahamas
Bahamas
Obediah Michael Smith, poet and director [email protected]
International Poetry Festival of Mongolia
Mongolia
Biligsaikhan, director: [email protected]
International Poetry Festival Spring of Poetry
Lithuania, Vilnius
Lithuanian Writter´s Union
International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong
Founded at 2009
Director: Bei Dao
International Spoken Word Festival – Promoting Peace through Poetry
Kenya
Walter Keyombe, poet and president: [email protected]
J
Jauría de Palabras
Bolivia
Director: Valeria Sandi
Email: [email protected]
Jornada Cucalambeana
Cuba
Yanetsi Ramírez León, coordinator, International Relations
K
Kingdom of Eswatini International Poetry Festival
Zolani Mkiva
Kistrech Poetry Festival in Kenya
Kenya
Christopher Okemwa, poet and director:
[email protected]
Kritya International Poetry Festival
India
Founded at 2006
Director: Rati Saxena
Email: [email protected]
L
Ledbury Poetry Festival
England
Founded in 1996
Festival Manager: Phillippa Slinger
Email: [email protected]
Le Printemps des Poètes
France, Paris.
Founded in 1999
Les Rencontres Internationales de la Poésie de Marrakech
Morocco
Founded at 2006
Lewes Live Literature Festival
England
Mark Hewitt, writer and Artistic Director: [email protected]
Limerick Poetry Festival
Irleland
Founded at 1995
London Poetry Festival
England
Founded at 2005
Los Ángeles Poetry Festival
United States
Founded in 1989
M
Maggie Dan’s Samhain International Poetry Festival
Ireland, Gortahork
Founded at 2003
Maelström FiEstival
Belgium
Founded at 2007
Email: [email protected]
Co-direction artistique:
Nadejda Peretti
David Giannoni
Maraton de Poesía del Teatro de la Luna
United States, Washington
Rei Berroa: poeta y director; [email protected]
Marché de la Poèsie
France, Paris
Founded in 1983
Mardelfip -Festival Int de Poesía Mar del Plata-
Argentina
Gustavo Caso Rosendi, poet and coordinator
Mhelekazi International Poetry Festival
Zimbabwe
Zolani Mkiva
Myanmar Poetry Festival
Myanmar
Myint Aung, poet an director: [email protected]
N
NorskLitteraturfestival
Norway
Marit Borkenhagen, director
[email protected]
O
Oslo International Poetry Festival
Norway
Founded at 2007
P
Per la Terra e per l’Uomo Festival
Italy, Venice
Massimo Morasso, poet and director: [email protected]
Poefesta de l’Oliva
Spain
Directed by Àngels Gregori
Poesiefestival-berlin
Bermany
Director: Thomas Wolfhart
Email: [email protected]
Poètes en Fête
Tunisia
Moëz Majed, poet and founder: [email protected]
Poético Festival Poetas por km2 – Arrebato libros
Spain
Pepe Olona, poet and coordinator: [email protected]
Poetry Africa
Southafrica
Founded in 1997
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Poetry International
The Netherlands
Rotterdam
Founded 1969
Email: [email protected]/
Poetry on the Road
Germany
Directors: Regina Dyck (Hochschule Bremen) & Michael Augustin (Radio Bremen)
Contacts: [email protected]
[email protected]
Poetry Slam Madrid | Poetry Salm Madrid Internacional
Spain
Silvia Nieva
Portugal Slam
Portugal, Portogallo
Raquel Lima
[email protected]
Prague International Poetry Festival – praguemicrofestival
Czech Republic
Facebook: praguemicrofestival
Q
Qinghai Lake International Poetry Festival
China
Founded at 2007
Director: Jidi Majia
Queensland Poetry Festival
Australia, Brisbane
Founded in 1997
Email: [email protected]
R
Ratkovic Poetry Evenings
Montenegro
Pavle Goranović, poet and representative: [email protected]
Recital Internacional de Poesía desde el Sur
Colombia
Founded at 2005
Director: Zabier Hernández
Email: [email protected]
Reims Slam d’Europe |Slam Tribu Reims
France
Sébastien Gavignet: [email protected]
Rencontre Internationale de Poésie au Maroc
Morocco
Lucile Bernard, poet and director: [email protected]
Rencontres Poétiques Internationales de Bretagne
France, St-Malo
Romapoesia Fest
Italy
Founded in 1997
by Luigi Cinque
Ronda Leiria Poetry Festival
Portugal
Founded at 2017
[email protected]
S
San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival
United States
Kevin Patrick Sullivan, coordinator
Sarajevo Days of Poetry
Bosnia
Hadžem Hajdarević, poet and representative
Schamrock-Festival of Women Poets
Germany
Augusta Laar, founder and director
[email protected]
Semana de las Letras, Rosario
Argentina
Héctor Berenguer, poet and director: [email protected]
Serile de literatura ale revistei Antares
Romania, Braila-Galati
Corneliu Antoniu, poet an director: [email protected]
Shoko International Spoken Word & Hip Hop Festival
Zimbabwe
Samm Farai Monro, poet and director
Slam Oslo
Norway
Taro Vestal
Smyrna Poetry Festival
Turkey
Ataol Behramoglu, poet, organizer and counselor: [email protected]
SlaMons | Slamons & friends
Belgium
François Veermersch
Södermalms Poesifestival
Sweden
Boel Schenlaer, poet and director: [email protected]
Spit Fire Poetry Fest
United States
Ewuare X. Osayande, poet and director: [email protected]
Split This Rock Poetry Festival
United States, Washington
Sarah Browning, poet and director [email protected]
Spoke’N’Word Festival
Poland
Wojciech Cichon
Stanza Poetry Festival
Scotland
Founded in 1998
Director: Eleanor Livingstone
Email: [email protected]
Strokestown International Poetry Festival
Ireland
[email protected]
Struga Poetry Evenings
Macedonia
Founded in 1962
Email : [email protected]
Mite Stefoska, Director
Sunday Poetry
Canada, Toronto
María Elena Mesa, poet and director [email protected]; [email protected]
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Tasmania Poetry Festival
Tasmania
Founded in 1985 by Tim Thorne
Teknospoieis Festival
Brazil
Humberto Mello, poet and codirector
The Edmonton Poetry Festival
Canada
Founded at 2006
The International Maastricht Poetry Nights
The Netherlands
Founded in 1996
Director: Hans van de Waarsenburg
The International Poetry Festival “Ditët E Naimit”
Macedonia
Founded in 1996
Director: Shaip Emërllahu
The Yellow Mountain Poetry Festival
China
Founded at 2006
Tinos International Literary Festival and Poets Circle
Greece
Dino Siotis, poet and director: [email protected]
Tokyo Poetry Festival
Japan
Founded at 2008
Director: Ban’ya Natsuishi
Email: [email protected]
20tal nternational Poetry Festival of Stockhölm
Sweden
Founded at 2011
V
Voix de la Méditerranée de Lodève
France
Founded in 1998
Voix Vives Mediterranee
France
Founded at 2010
W
West Australia Spring Poetry Festival
Australia
Founded at 2005
Secretary: Gary DePiazzi: [email protected]
Word Feast Singapur
Singapur
Funded at 2004
World Festival of Poetry
Mexico
Yuri Zambrano: poet and coordinator: [email protected]
Writers Unlimited,
The Netherlands, The Hague
[email protected]
