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 twelfth version of this meeting, which took place from the 2nd of September to the 6th of September:
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 02:
Meeting with Sarah Jackson (UK)
Conversation of the authors with Carlos Salgado (Colombia)
Meeting with William Ospina (Colombia)
Author’s conversation with Federico Díaz Granados (Colombia)
Meeting Manuel Orestes Nieto (Panama)
Author’s conversation with Álvaro Castillo (Colombia).
Meeting Hugo Mujica (Argentina)
Author’s conversation with Jorge Cadavid (Colombia).
Rita Dove Poetry Reading (United States)
Presentation by Nieves García Prados (Colombia).
Opening
Participants: Victor Alberto Gómez Cusnir (Principal of the Gimnasio Moderno) and Federico Díaz-Granados (Director of the International Literature Festival Las Lineas de su mano 12). – Tribute to Ana Blandiana (Romania). Words by Raquel Lanseros (Spain) and reading of poems by the authors. – Tribute to Piedad Bonnett (Colombia) Musical intervention by Victoria Sur.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 03:
Meeting with Patricia Cerda (Chile) and Marisa Martínez Pérsico (Argentina)
Conversation of the authors with Santiago Díaz Benavides (Colombia).
Meeting with Piedad Bonnet (Colombia).
Conversation between the author and Santiago Espinosa (Colombia).
Meeting with Pedro Larrea (Spain) and Axel Presas (Cuba).
Conversation of the authors with Giovanny Gómez (Colombia)
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 04:
Meeting with Rita Dove (United States)
Conversation of the author with María Gómez Lara (Colombia).
Meeting with Robert Pinsky (United States).
Author’s conversation with Giuseppe Caputo (Colombia)
Teachers School: Poetry in the Teaching of Spanish in the United States
Participants: Allen Josephs (United States, University of West Florida) and Anthony L. Geist (United States, University Of Washington).
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 05:
Roundtable: American Poetry Today:
Participants: Robert Pinsky (United States), Rita Dove (United States), Allen Josephs (United States) and Anthony L. Geist (United States). Moderated by: Federico Díaz- Granados (Colombia)
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 06:
Meeting with Hagar Peeters (Holland).
Author’s conversation with Paola Guevara (Colombia)
Meeting with Evelio Rosero (Colombia)
Author’s conversation with Pedro Caballero (Colombia)
Meeting with Ana Blandiana (Romania).
Conversation between the author and Juan Cárdenas (Colombia).
Meeting with Benjamín Prado, Loreto Sesma and Jesús García Sánchez (Spain)
Conversation of the authors with Federico Díaz Granados (Colombia)
Round table: 200 years of Walt Whitman (II)
Participants: Rita Dove (United States) and Robert Pinsky (United States)
Moderator: Santiago Espinosa.
