History

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  3rd Meeting (7 - 10 May 1998)

After this, the Third International Meeting of Poets seemed inevitable, and the three-year cycle seemed only natural. The 1998 Meeting included something new: students of Graça Capinha's Poetry Workshop (Oficina de Poesia) of the University of Coimbra also read their own poems.

The "Encontros Internacionais de Poetas" have now acquired an international reputation as a unique event where poetic languages and traditions meet. Books, poems, performances, and all kinds of collaboration of different authors have grown out of our gatherings of poets. The third volume of our bilingual anthologies will be launched during the 2001 Meeting.

A lot has changed in Coimbra since the time when Al Berto was booed out of one of the town bars while reading his poems. Now there hardly goes a week without a public poetry reading happening somewhere in town. The expansion of an audience for poetry, together with the daily presence of poetry within the social as an alternative discourse, are yet another incentive to the continuation of the International Meetings of Poets.

  1st Meeting
  2nd Meeting
  4th Meeting
  5th Meeting

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