What happens in the head of a writer when creating a literary work? That is the question that was formulated by the School’s Cultural Agenda and that gave rise to the consolidation of one of the activities that brings together students from various institutions of the city around the books. It is the Lines of your Hand [Las Líneas de su Mano], a metaphorical way to get to know the ideas and experiences of the writers who annually are invited to the Gimnasio Moderno to face the most complicated Audience: their readers, the students.
This was the schedule for the eleventh version of this meeting, which took place from the 3rd of September to the 7th of September
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 03:
Meeting Marío Mendoza (Colombia)
Conference “The damned poets”.
Meeting Miguel Méndez Camacho (Colombia)
Author’s conversation with Ramón Cote Baraibar (Colombia)
Meeting Robert Hass (United States)
Author’s conversation with Giuseppe Caputo (Colombia).
Opening
Juan Sebastian Hoyos (Vice-rector of the Gimnasio Moderno) and Federico Díaz-Granados (Director of the International Literature Festival Las Lines de su mano 11) participate.
– Tribute to Miguel Méndez Camacho (Colombia). Words by Xavier Oquendo Troncoso (Ecuador) and reading by the author.
– Tribute to Charles Simic (United States) Words by Luis García Montero (Spain) and reading by the author.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 04:
Meeting with Abel Murcia (Spain)
Author’s conversation with Rubén Darío Flórez (Colombia).
Meeting with Carmen Boullosa (Mexico).
Conversation of the author with Pedro Caballero (Colombia).
Meeting with Almudena Grandes (Spain).
Conversation between the author and Árturo Castillo (Colombia).
Meeting with Rosa Alcalá (United States).
Author’s conversation with Andrea Salgado (Colombia)
Poetry reading: “Colombian Teachers”
Participants: Giovanni Quessep, Elkin Restrepo, Darío Jaramillo Agudelo and Piedad Bonnett.
Moderator: Catalina González Restrepo.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 05:
Meeting with Rolando Kattan (Honduras) and Francisco Larios (Nicaragua)
Conversation of the authors with Hellman Pardo (Colombia).
Meeting with Juan Esteban Constaín (Colombia).
Author’s conversation with Camilo Hoyos (Colombia)
Meeting with Jericho Brown (United States)
Author’s conversation with Andrea Cote (Colombia)
Meeting with Giovanni Quessep (Colombia) and Elkin Restrepo (Colombia).
Conversation of the authors with Jorge Cadavid (Colombia)
Teachers School: Poetry and the teaching of languages for citizens of the world.
Participants: Abel Murcia (Spain, Cervantes Institute of Moscow), Rosa Alcalá (United States, University of Texas at El Paso) and Fernando Operé (Spain, University of Virginia)
Moderated by: Santiago Espinosa (Colombia).
Reading poems:
Participants: Robert Hass (United States), Piedad Bonnett (Colombia) and Fernando Valverde (Spain)
Moderated by: Santiago Espinosa (Colombia).
Leandro Díaz, the poet of Vallenato:
Participants: Alonso Sánchez Baute (Colombia), Ivo Díaz (Colombia) and Ariel Castillo Mier (Colombia).
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 06:
Meeting with Fernando Operé (Spain).
Author’s conversation with Santiago Grijalva (Ecuador).
Meeting with Volha Hapeyeva (Belarus) and Krystyna Drąbrowska (Poland).
Conversation of the authors with María Paz Guerrero (Colombia).
Meeting with Charles Simic (United States).
Author’s conversation with Fernando Valverde (Spain) and Federico Díaz-Granados (Colombia).
Meeting with Madeleine Grive (Sweden)
Conversation with Giovanny Gómez (Colombia)
American poetry today
Participants: Charles Simic (United States), Robert Hass (United States), Carolyn Forché (United States) and Jericho Brown (United States).
Moderator: Federico Díaz-Granados (Colombia)
Tribute to the unnamed Generation in its 50 years and to María Mercedes Carranza in her 15-year absence
Participants: Giovanni Quessep, Miguel Méndez Camacho, Elkin Restrepo, Álvaro Miranda, José Luis Díaz-Granados, Augusto Pinilla, Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda and Luz Mary Giraldo. Presentation of “La generazione senza nome” from Colombian poetry ”translated by Antonio Nazzaro (Italy) and“ Poetas del 68: La Generación sin nombre ”(Cultural notebooks of the Externado University of Colombia). Screening of Documentary sin nombre (2018), direction and production: Laura María Romero and Carlos Palacio Páez. Moderator: Santiago Espinosa (Colombia)
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 07:
Meeting with Carlos Patiño Millán (Colombia) and Luis Fernando Afanador (Colombia).
Conversation of the authors with Álvaro Castillo Granada (Colombia).
Meeting with Jerónimo Pimentel (Peru), Jesús Montoya (Venezuela) and Xavier Oquendo Troncoso (Ecuador)
Conversation of the authors with Santiago Díaz Benavides (Colombia)
Meeting with Benjamin Prado (Spain) and Jesús García Sánchez (Spain).
Conversation of the authors with Camilo Hoyos (Colombia).
Meeting with Robert Hass (United States)
Author’s conversation with Andrea Cote (Colombia)
North American poets speak of their relationship with poetry written in Spanish:
Participants: Charles Simic (United States) and Robert Hass (United States).
Moderator: Santiago Espinosa (Colombia)
Tribute to Nadaísmo in its 60 years:
Participants: Jotamario Arbeláez (Colombia), Luz Mary Girado (Colombia), Rafael del Castillo (Colombia) and Tatiana Arango (Colombia).
Closure
Poetry reading: Charles Simic (United States), Benjamín Prado (Spain), Carolyn Forché (United States), Fernando Valverde (Spain), Piedad Bonnett (Colombia), Juan Felipe Robledo (Colombia), Dinu Flamand (Romania) and Krystyna Drąbrowska (Poland) and Ramón Cote Baraibar (Colombia).
Moderator: Federico Díaz-Granados (Colombia).
Musical intervention: Los Cancionautas Surmelódicos (Colombia)
