Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín, Colombia
From 19th to 27th July 2014, the XXIV edition of the International Festival of Poetry takes place in Medellin. This year the festival is dedicated to the celebration of life and of earth with the poets of the ancient aboriginal nations Innu, Nahuatl, Mazatec, Muscogee, Quechua, Mapuche, Yanacona, Wayuu, Kamsa Maya and Sam.
During the festival, the beneficiaries of the Gulliver Project present their poems written during the poetry workshops. These are children and adolescents of the peripheral areas of degraded and violent Medellin.