Spoken Word in Havana / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

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The Writing Workshop of the International Poetry Festival in Havana along with Roads of Words (a group dedicated to the promotion of spoken word poetry in Cuba), invite you to a conference:

Spoken Word: A New Wave of Contemporary Poetry

(featuring the poet and cultural promotor: Elier A. Alvarez Arcia, “the wizard”).

Next Saturday, November 12th at 10:30am in the conference room “Ruben Martinez Villena” of the Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC).

The conference will discuss the new development of the Spoken Word movement in the United States and how it arrived to our country, what has been done in the subject of poetry-performance in our capital, and it will explain the how this form of poetry is promoted in Cuba

P.S. BY OLPL:

WILL OMNI ZONA FRANCA SPEAK///???!!!

(Will the comrades of the Kultureseguritat attend…?)

Translated by: Meg Anderson

November 8 2011