Kritya International Poetry Festival Concludes in India

Poets from around the world attended including: Mahnaz Badihian (American-Iranian), Massimo Sannelli (Italy), Mani Rao (Hong Kong, China), Lana Derkac (Croatia), Patrick Cotter (Ireland), Gerry Murphy (Ireland), Tae Ho Han (Korea), Roberto Piperno (Italy), and Peter Waugh (Austria).
The Kritya International Poetry Festival concluded in India on July 23, 2007.

[ClickPress, Thu Jul 26 2007] The festival started with the traditional lighting of the lamp by KL Bhatia, governor of Kerala. Helping him were Rati Saxena, director of Kritya. The festival was held at the Vylopilli Bhavan Center in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

Poets from around the world attended including: Mahnaz Badihian (American-Iranian), Massimo Sannelli (Italy), Mani Rao (Hong Kong, China), Lana Derkac (Croatia), Patrick Cotter (Ireland), Gerry Murphy (Ireland), Tae Ho Han (Korea), Roberto Piperno (Italy), and Peter Waugh (Austria).

Indian poets who were present included: ONV Kurup, K. Satchidanandan, Vinaya Chandran, Deshmangalam Ramkrishnan, and John P Matthew.

There was a wide variety of poetry presented from Peter Waugh’s sound poetry to Argus Speer’s wallpaper poetry. Young Shireen Badihian sang a beautiful ballad in French and Indian Dalit poet Loknath Yashwant presented poetry of the downtrodden in India.