International poets – from Argentina, Cuba, Italy and Colombia – along with local ones, recited on Wednesday at the Museum of Colonial Art in Mérida as part of the regional programming of the 18th World Poetry Festival.

Until next Saturday, meetings, discussions and readings will be held in that entity, within the framework of the meeting sponsored by the national government.

Karelyn Buenaño, poet and facilitator of the Juan Calzadilla National Poetry School in Mérida, expressed that it has been a beautiful experience to guide high school students with free workshops and stable groups, in order to develop the poetic creation reflected in the festival.

In Nueva Esparta this Thursday there will be a conversation in tribute to the poet Leonardo Ruiz at the Simón Bolívar theater in Juan Griego, starting at 10 am. In that entity, the festival closes tomorrow with two conversations that will take place at the House of Cultural Diversity of La Asunción. One regarding the surrealist poetry of José Lira Sosa, by the storyteller Pedro Salinas, starting at 10 am, and the second starting at 3 pm with Eva Cristina Franco, who presents her book Muses de Margarita.