Genny Lim at Other Words 2008

Genny Lim is a native of San Francisco, a poet, playwright, performer, educator, and lifelong activist. Her live poetry and music collaborations have brought her international recognition in Venezuela and Bosnia-Hercegovina and her play Paper Angels was produced in the U.S. as well as Canada and China. She is the author of two books of [...]

Michel Abdollahi and Sulaiman Masomi will represent Germany at the Festival

Michel Abdollahi, born in Teheran in 1981, has been living in Hamburg, Germany, for more than 20 years. He studied law, then entered the slam poetry scene in Hamburg where he has been active as an award winning poet and as a political voice fighting aggression in public schools and [...]

Ingvild Burkey will attend Other Words in October

Ingvild Burkey was born in Oslo in 1967, of a Norwegian mother and an American father. She holds a degree in political science from Yale University and has worked as a human rights monitor in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1997-2000) and many African countries, including Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Rwanda and Tanzania.
 In the 1990s, she [...]

Jean-Michel Espitallier confirmed to attend ‘08 Festival

French Poet Jean-Michel Espitallier has confirmed his attendance to the International Poetry Festival.

Incomparable poet Jean-Michel Espitallier (born 1957) plays on various instruments and works along constantly renewed modes of action to keep on playing with the bizarre of language, and test its limits.

Co-founder of the journal Java, coordinator of the issue about « New [...]

Fabiano Alborghetti will represent Switzerland and Italy at 2008 Festival

Fabiano Alborghetti was born in Milan (Italy) in 1970 and lives in Lugano (Switzerland). He has worked as a photographer and as a playwright. His work is included in several poetry anthologies, and he collaborates closely with magazines as well as with various publishing houses as consultant editor.
Fabiano Alborghetti has published Verso Buda (LietoColle [...]

Swedish-Chinese Poet Li Li will attend Other Words 2008

Born in 1961, in Shanghai, China, Li Li now lives in Sweden. He studied Swedish at Beijing University, and moved to Sweden in 1988, where he studied Swedish literature at the Stockholm University. He debuted with Sight in water (1989), written in Swedish, and was rewarded with the literature prize De nio.
 
Li Li [...]

Other Words Festival announced

The 6th Other Words poetry festival will take place October 10-12, 2008 in San Francisco and will draw poets from the U.S. and from European countries (Germany, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Ireland, France…) to a variety of local venues, co-sponsored by the San Francisco offices of several international consulates and cultural institutes along with local literary [...]