XI Poetry Festival in Nicaragua will bring together 115 poets from 57 countries

To the festival, which will take place from February 15^th through 21^st, 2015 in the colonial city of Granada, will attend the American poet Claudia Emerson, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2006, as the President of the event, Francis Fernandez said in a press conference .

The Peruvian poet Eduardo Chirinos House prize of America Spain, the Mexicans Oscar Oliva, National Poetry Prize of Mexico and Marco Antonio Campos, Nezahualcoyotl Award will also attend.

Likewise, the Guatemalan Enrique Noriega, National Literature Prize Miguel Angel Asturias; Croatian Jagic Dorta, Grand Prize for Poetry in the Balkans; Chinese Jidi Majita, Sholokhov Commemorative Medal and the Philippine artist Luis Eduardo Aute, among others.

The event will also be a ceremony in memory of the poet Eunice Odio from Costa Rica and "a call to Central American integration," according to organizers.

Born in Costa Rica in 1922, Odio toured Central America before settling in Guatemala, where she acquired Guatemalan nationality in 1948, then settled in Mexico, where she was naturalized Mexican and lived until her death in 1974.

"We feel that our festival is for all Central American countries and all Central American poets must feel as theirs the International Poetry Festival of Granada," said Fernandez.

The idea of the festival coincides with the message of European poets who have attended these events in the past ten years, he said, meanwhile, the head of the delegation of the European Union in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, and to the Central American Integration System (SICA), the Spanish Francisco Javier Sandomingo.

"About 150 poets from 28 countries that now make up the European Union have brought the message to another region that regional integration is also important," said the diplomat.

Meanwhile, the board of the Festival announced its new honorary president is the head of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (COSEP) of Nicaragua, Jose Adan Aguerri, who emphasized that the fact of reaching more than 130 countries on five continents, the Festival of Poetry of Granada is "one of the most widely known products of Nicaragua".

During the festival a book fair will be held, poems by authors from Central America will be read, there will be a ceremony in honor of the Nicaraguan poet Salomón de la Selva and artist Gloria Bacon will dance poems by Fernandez Morales and Odio.

Likewise, attendees poets will bury "time violence and mistreatment of women" in symbolic funeral.

Over 1,600 poets from 130 countries have attended poetry festivals of Granada in its ten editions.

The festival is held in Granada, located on the Pacific coast, 45 kilometers southeast of Managua and founded in 1524, one of the main tourist destinations in Nicaragua and more historical and cultural wealth.