INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL OF BIOBIO (London)

Organised by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)

Monday 9th – 6.00pm 

Welcoming remarks – Embassy of Chile
Opening talk: "Gabriela Mistral, precursora de la Educación Poética" (Gabriela Mistral, forerunner on Poetic Education), by Agustín Benelli, poet, teacher and founder of the International Poetry Festival of Biobío. With a Homage to Prof. Marie-Lise Gazarian-Gautier (1933 – 2023).
Dr. Marie-Lise Gazarian was a highly accomplished academic and literary figure, and a renowned scholar on Gabriela Mistral. She is a graduate of Columbia University and was a Professor of Spanish and the Director of the Graduate Program in Spanish at St. John's University since 2008. 

Poetry Reading by guest poets: Reading of the Manifesto of the new poet 

Isabel del Río (Inglaterra-España)
Enrique Zattara (Argentina)
Juana M. Ramos (El Salvador)
Poetic Education in the UK, by guest academic from CLACS (TBC) (20- 25 minutes)
Poetry Reading by guest poets:
Rocío Uchofen (Perú)
Margarita Drago (Argentina)
Linda Morales Caballero (Perú)

Tuesday 10th – 6.00pm
Welcoming remarks by Agustín Benelli
Lecture: "El Nuevo poeta y la experiencia de la educaciónpoética en Chile" (The new poet and the experience of poetic education in Chile", by Agustín Benelli
Poetry Reading and discussion by guest poets of La Ninfa Eco Young Writers group
Readings by:
Xaviera Ringeling (Chile)
Jorge Chartier Navarrete (Chile)
América Merino (Chile)

Wednesday 11th – 6.00pm
Welcoming remarks by Agustín Benelli
Lecture: Why create a Movement around Poetic Education and the new poet (Maureen Altman)
Poetry Reading by guest poets:
Las Juanas Collective: Denise Vargas-Bolaños (Bolivia), Isabel Ros-López (Spain), Mabel Encinas-Sánchez (Mexico), Marijo Alba-Sánchez (Spain), María Eugenia Bravo-Calderara (Chile)
Tomás Modesto Galán (Dominican Republic)
Gaby Sambuccetti (Argentina) 

Panel discussion "Los poetas de la mesa Redonda". 

Moderated by Maureen Altman and Agustín Benelli
Juana M, Ramos (El Salvador)
Tomás Modesto Galán (Dominican Republic)
Enrique Zattara (Argentina)
Linda Morales Caballeros (Perú)
Xaviera Ringeling (Chile)
Gaby Sambuccetti (Argentina)

*The programme will be adapted so that it can be enjoyed by both Spanish and English speaking audiences. The lectures by Agustín Benelli will be in Spanish, with printed texts / projections of a translation, and the poetry reading will be bilingual.

Maureen H. Altman, associate director of Poetic Education for the World in New York

Maureen H. Altman, directora asociada de Poetic Education for the World en Nueva York