Literary Conference at the United Nations
Hello Everyone: 18 editors and coordinators from
around the world will be meeting in New York City at
the United Nations during the last week in March 2001
as part of the Dialogue Among Civilizations Through
Poetry program. The objective and list of editors is
stated below. The conference is being organized and
lead by David H. Lynn (Editor of the 'Kenyon Review),
John Kinsella (Editor of Salt, Stand and International
Editor at the Kenyon Review), Tatjana Daan and
Arnoloda Jagersma (Poetry International Foundation,
Rotterdam) and Ram Devineni (publisher of Rattapallax
Press). A full schedule will be posted on our website
soon-- http://www.dialoguepoetry.org
Cheers,
Ram Devineni
Program Coordinator
Objective: To investigate ways how to stimulate
dialogue among cultures through poetry using new
technologies and international resources. The central
focus is the development of an internet portal for
poetry through Poetry International and an
organizational structure to facilitate interaction and
events programming.
Participants:
(1) Ricardo Ibarlucia (Diario de poesia, Argentina)
(2) Al Creighton (University of Guyana)
(3) Mohammed Bennis (House of poetry Casablanca,
Morocco)
(4) Iztok Osojnik (Slovenian Writers Association,
International Poetry festival Vilenica, Slovenia)
(5) Charles H. Rowell (Callaloo, USA)
(6) Therese Eiben (Poets & Writers Magazine, USA)
(7) William Wadsworth (Academy of American Poets, USA)
(8) Guy Shahar (Cortland Review, USA)
(9) Herbert Leibowitz (Parnassus, USA)
(10) Peggy Randall (CLMP, USA)
(11) Greg Gatenby (Harbour Front Series, Toronto,
Canada)
(12) Rebecca Wolf (Fence, USA)
(13) Jenine Gordon Bockman (Literal Latte, USA)
(14) John Kinsella (Stand, Salt and Kenyon Review,
UK/Australia)
(15) David H. Lynn (Kenyon Review, USA)
(16) Arnolda Jagersma (Poetry International
Foundation, The Netherlands)
(17) Tatjana Daan (Poetry International Foundation,
The Netherlands)
(18) Ram Devineni (Rattapallax, USA)
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