The Massachusetts Poetry Festival 2017

In October, the World Poetry Movement sponsored readings around the globe to draw attention to the recent increasingly dangerous escalation of nuclear weapons and the need for increased recognition and support for efforts toward peace, particularly among the world's communities of poets. This reading will feature poets who recently read in Cambridge in this cause. Our readers are activists, publishers, editors, and translators who will read from poems that directly address these issues. The World Poetry Movement has its roots in Medellin and the World Poetry Festival which for over twenty-five years, in the midst and against the violence of an on-going war has brought poets from around the world each year to read and conduct workshops in schools, colleges, barrios, banana plantations, plazas, throughout the countryside and the cities of Bogota and Medellin.