Poetry Festival of Medellín starting today

The 23rd International Poetry Festival of Medellín starts today.

The Festival will be held from 6 to 13 July 2013 in Medellín, Columbia. It aims to help transform places of fratricidal violence into spaces for coexistence and the celebration of life.

Its slogan for this year is “For 1000 years of peace in Colombia” and it is developed in support of the peace talks in Havana.