Palestine is the Name, of all the Peoples, of the Earth
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165 POETS FROM 105 COUNTRIES
Are WITH GAZA

170 poets from 110 nations across all continents will read their poems in solidarity with the people of Gaza on June 28 and 29, in a powerful and unprecedented event organized by the World Poetry Movement (WPM). Thirty-two poets from 24 African countries, 55 from 31 Asian nations, 38 from 26 American countries, 23 from 20 European nations, and four from three Oceanian territories will participate.
 
The WPM Global Gathering will feature Palestinian Minister of Culture Imad Hamdan and several Palestinian poets and will begin at 2:00 PM GMT on June 28. It will be broadcast on the World Poetry Movement’s (WPM) social media channels on Facebook (worldpoetrymovement2011) and YouTube (worldpoetrymovement5243).
 

ORDER OF PROGRAMMING

PALESTINE (5)

Imad Hamdan (Minister of Culture of Palestine)
Murad Sudani (President of the Palestinian Writers’ Union)
Abdullah Issa (WPM Coordinator in India Palestine)
Hanan Awwad (WPM Coordinator in Palestine)
Ashraf Fayad (Palestine)

AFRICA (32 – 24 countries)

Zolani Mkiva (WPM Coordinator in South Africa)
Siphiwe Nzima (WPM National Coordinator in Lesotho)
A-dZiko Simba (Zimbabwe)
Keamogetse Molapong (WMP Coordinator in Namibia)
Jean-Luc Raharimanana (WPM Coordinator in Madagascar)
Lolita Mongo (WPM Coordinator in Reunion Islands)
Conceiçao Lima (WPM Coordinator in Sao Tome and Principe)
Khal Torabully (WPM Coordinator in Mauritius)
João Fernando Andre (WPM Coordinator in Angola)
Saley Boubé (WPM Coordinator in Niger)
André Salifou (Niger)
Koumanthio Zeinab Diallo (WPM Coordinator in Guinea)
Joseph Alain Sissao (Burkina Fasso)
Patricia K-Marceau M’baia (Ivory Coast)
Paul Atangana (Cameroon)
Patron Henekou (WPM Coordinator in Togo)
Alemu Tebeje (Ethiopia)
Idris Amali (WPM Coordinator in Nigeria)
Daniel Bitros (Nigeria)
(Kenya)
Sidi Ould Amjad (Mauritania)
Oumar Farouk Sessay (WPM Coordinator in Sierra Leone)
Ashraf Aboul-Yazid (WPM Coordinator in Egypt)
Deema Mahmoud (Egypt)
Radhouane Ajroudi (WPM Coordinator in Tunisia)
Faten Gemri (Tunisia)
Ahmed Zaabar (Tunisia)
Achour Fenni (WPM Coordinator in Algeria)
Farid Chettah (Algeria)
Mohammed Rahal (Algeria)
Tarek Eltaybeb (WPM Coordinator in Sudan)
Khalid Raissouni (WPM Coordinator in Morocco)
Mohammed Ajiji Mohammed (WPM Coordinator in Morocco)

ASIA (55 poets – 31 countries)

Adonis (Syria)
Youseff Hatiti (Palestine)
Nahjwan Darwish (Palestine)
Ali Al Ameri (WPM Coordinator in Jordan)
Lorca Sbeity (WPM Coordinator in Lebanon)
Monzer Masri (WPM Coordinator in Syria)
Mohsen Rahjerdi (WPM Coordinator in Iran)
Abdul Hadi Abdul Sadoun (WPM Coordinator in Iraq)
Mukhtar Muharram (Yemen)
Fida Alhail Alshooqtairai (WPM Coordinator in Qatar)
Abdukakhor Kosim (WPM Coordinator in Tajikistan)
Altynai Temirova (WPM Coordinator in Kyrgyzstan)
Mehriddin Otegenov (Kazakhstan)
Ulugbek Yesdaulet (WPM Coordinator in Kazakhstan)
Erik Naryn (Kazakhstan)
Xosiyat Rustamova (WPM Coordinator in Uzbekistan)
Rati Saxena WPM Coordinator in India)
Resmah Ramesh (India)
Aparnaa Laxmi (India)
Shirani Rajapakse (WPM Coordinator in Sri Lanka)
Keshab Sigdel (WPM Coordinator in Nepal)
Han Lynn (Burma)
Chador Wagmo (Bhutan)
Aminur Rahman (WPM Coordinator in Bangladesh)
Imdad Akash (WPM Coordinator in Pakistan)
Sastri Bakry (WPM Coordinator in Indonesia)
Nuyang Jaimee (Indonesia)
Isbedy Stiawan ZS (Indonesia)
Anwar Putra Bayu (Indonesia)
Shivani Sivaguranathan (WPM Malaysia Coordinator)
Raja Ahmad Ahmad (Malaysia)
Shirani Rajapskse (Sri Lanka)
Shu Ran (Singapore）
Huu Viet (WPM Coordinator in Vietnam)
Nguyen Quang Thieu (President of the Vietnam Writers’ Association)
Võ Thi Nhu Mai (Vietnam)
Thongbay Phothisan’s (President of the Lao Writers’ Union)
Cao Shui (WPM Coordinator in the People’s Republic of China)
Fan Qun (People’s Republic of China)
Feng Feng (People’s Republic of China)
He Xiaolong (People’s Republic of China)
Li Mi (People’s Republic of China)
Mei Ye (People’s Republic of China)
Ouyang Min (People’s Republic of China)
Qiao Damo (People’s Republic of China)
Wang Tong (People’s Republic of China)
Xie Xiongying (People’s Republic of China)
Yang Ke (People’s Republic of China)
Zhao Kangli (People’s Republic of China)
Zhao Xiaoming (People’s Republic of China)
Yang Fangwn (China)
Xiao Yifan (China)
Zhang Jianjun (China)
Jua Chun (Japan)
Byeong-Cheol Kang (South Korea)
Ye Zi (Philippines)
Meng Ling (Thailand)

OCEANIA (4 poets – 3 countries)

Christine Chen (WPM Coordinator in New Zealand)
Denis Powrawa (WPM Coordinator in New Caledonia)
Laura Fu (Australia)
Shjing Liao (Australia)

EUROPE (23 poets – 20 countries)

Lies Gallez (Belgium)
Isilda Nunes (WPM Coordinator in Portugal)
María Ángeles Pérez Lopez (WPM Coordinator in Spain)
Claudio Pozzani (Italy)
Stefania di Leo (Italy)
Michel Cassir (France)
Peter Nyberg Mollung (Sweeden)
Lucilla Trapazzo (Switzerland)
Attila Balazs (WPM Coordinator in Slovenia)
Ivan Spanjić (Croatia)
Valora Ademi (Kosovo)
Ekaterina Grigorova (Bulgaria)
Christos Koukis (WPM Coordinator in Greece)
Vadim Terekhim (WPM Coordinator in Russia)
Geraldine MB Jones (WPM Wales Coordinator)
Christie Williamson (WPM Scotland Coordinator)
Bing Ling (England)
Jo Heyde (England)
Eldar Akhadov (Azerbaijan)
Fadil Oktay (WPM Coordinator in Turkey)
Can Yigit Tunçman (Turkey)
Neshe Yashin (National Coordinator of WPM in Cyprus)

AMERICA (38 poetas – 26 countries)

Melissa Merlo (WPM Coordinator in Honduras)
William Alfaro (WPM Coordinator in El Salvador)
Rudy Alfonzo Gomez Rivas (WPM Coordinator in Guatemala)
Chary Gumeta (WPM Coordinator in Mexico)
Grissel Gómez Estrada (Mexico)
Matt Sedillo (WPM Coordinator in the United States)
Vanessa Torres (WPM Coordinator in the United States)
Hai Zhe (United States)
Binghuai (United States)
Michael Yang (Canadá)
Alex Pausides (WPM Coordinator in Cuba)
Karel Leyva Ferrer (WPM Coordinator in Cuba)
Yvonne Weekes (WPM Coordinator in Montserrat and the Caribbean)
Winston Farrell (WPM Coordinator in Barbados)
Debra Providence (San Vicente)
Nicole Cage Florentiny (WPM Coordinator in Martinique)
Michel Dasmar (Haiti)
George Goddard (Saint Lucia)
McDonald Dixon (Saint Lucia)
Quito Nicolaas (WPM Coordinator in Aruba)
Enrique Sánchez Hernani (WPM Coordinator in Peru)
Mónica Laneri (WPM Coordinator in Paraguay)
Valeria Sandi (WPM Coordinator in Bolivia)
Nicolás Antonioli (WPM Coordinator in Argentina)
Elizabeth Bergallo (Argentina)
Fernando Rendón (Colombia). President of WPM.
Gabriel Jaime Franco (Colombia)
Ronald Cano (WPM Coordinator in Colombia)
Eugenia Sánchez Nieto (Colombia)
Jorge Torres Medina (Colombia)
Thiago Ponce de Moraes (WPM Coordinator in Brazil)
Leonardo Ruiz (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela)
Almendra Tello (Ecuador)
Oscar Saavedra (WPM Coordinator in Chile)
Maribel Mora Curriao (WPM Coordinator in Chile)
Guillermo Acuña (WPM Coordinator in Costa Rica)
Moisés Pascual (WPM Coordinator in Panama)
Alexandra Crette (WPM Coordinator in Guyana)

OTHERS

Fragments of songs Chiwoniso Maraire (Zimbabwe)
Nikolai Orzak (Tuva)
Savina Yanatou (Greece)
indigenous huitotos (Amazonia)

Open Call

Palestine is the Name of all the Peoples of the Earth

Humanity is burning in the flames of war. In Gaza, the tender bodies of children are consumed daily by relentless Zionist bombardments. The mobilization of civil society and the hesitant declarations of politicians rejecting this brutal invasion are not enough to contain the catastrophe. We are all Palestinians today — the childhood of the world is being exterminated in a beautiful and beloved land. The roots that bind us to the earth are being severed.

We are poets, and our only instrument of defense for tortured life is language. We will use it fully, launching a vast poetic action across the world to denounce the machinery of annihilation deployed by the pale murderers. Life is sacred; no one has the right to extinguish it. Palestinian land is sacred; no occupying force has the right to seize it. The martyrs are sacred; their red blood spilled on green grass will nourish and raise the soul of the world.

The World Poetry Movement (WPM) calls upon all human beings of deep conscience and burning heart — poets, artists, and thinkers around the planet — to rise in solidarity. We urge demonstrations in every country, by every possible means, on May 15, 2025, marking the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, the day when 700,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes.

We also call for global actions on 28-29 June 2025, with massive poetry readings, performances, conferences, talks, concerts, and exhibitions — in public spaces and in private venues. We encourage workshops and discussions in schools and colleges, in cities and villages around the world, to share and spread Palestinian poetry of resistance.

We know that writing and reading poems alone will not be enough to end the war in Gaza or halt the extermination. Yet it will form part of a worldwide poetic revolution — one that can awaken the confused spirit of our species and return us to our deepest humanity, marching firmly toward the realization of true peace on earth, in profound unity, and the recovery of humanity’s forgotten greatest hopes.

WORLD POETRY MOVEMENT
Coordinating Committee
April 27, 2025

Generate Actions

The International Coordinating Committee of the World Poetry Movement (WPM) invites all poets and artists of the world to develop a large-scale mass action to draw the world’s attention to the continuing violations of human rights at Palestine. It is urgent to apply the necessary correctives and sanctions to Israel in defens of the right to life and the fundamental rights of the peoples of Palestine.
 
We call on poets and artists around the world to organise face-to-face and virtual events at May 15th, and June 28th-29th, to read poems of Palestinian poetas and own poems for Palestine.
 
Please confirm as soon as possible your active participation through the different social networks of the World Poetry Movement. Use these #s
 

#FreePalestine #WeAllArePalestinans #WPMForPalestine

Recording poems

Record poems with your mobile device or camera and share it on your social networks, tagging the page @worldpoetrymovement2011, and on our Facebook group.

Virtual recitals

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Donate Books

If you are an author or poet, donate and share a digital book or a selection of your poems on social networks.

Conversations

Prepare talks on topics relevant to poetry on different digital platforms.

Virtual workshops

Organise and gives virtual workshops on poetry, creativity, writing and reading comprehension.

Webinarios

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