Cosmopoeticia Festival, Spain, Poetry workshop with the inmates in Cordoba Prison

(Google translation of the Spanish Text)

Reading Marcos Ana, William Ospina and Yuyutsu RD Sharma has put the finishing touch to the poetry workshop for the fourth consecutive year has been developed in the provincial prison in collaboration with CIC-Bata. Cosmopoética stresses that the recital, which was presented by the instructor of Poetry for Freedom, Alejandra Vanessa, "the excitement has maintained throughout its course but has been with the intervention of Marcos Ana when it has risen further."

Reading Marcos Ana, Colombian William Ospina and the Nepali Yuyutsu RD Sharma, has served to put an end to the poetry workshop for the fourth consecutive year, was held in the provincial prison Cosmopoética within the framework of a meeting who participated in the World Poetry in Cordoba with the collaboration of CIC-Bata.
In a statement, Cosmopoética stresses that the recital, which was presented by the instructor of Poetry for Freedom, Alejandra Vanessa, "the excitement has maintained throughout its course but has been with the intervention of Marcos Ana when it has risen more .
Ensure that the poet spent 23 years in prison for political reasons and was twice sentenced to death for it, and as he assured his audience "I feel a particular emotion to be among you."

She recognized that, despite the fact that in prison "lost youth and the first part of my life" and that this experience has been "simultaneously the hardest and the most I've lived" (...), "the prison was my university, I learned to be a man, and writing, not a privilege, but I owe everything. "
After his words, optimistic, despite everything, the poet wanted to give the audience some of the poems he wrote during his captivity. Biography, My heart is patio, tell me what a tree or Charter the world were heard before an excited audience.

Then came the turn of the Colombian William Ospina whose poetic production is closely linked to nature, as demonstrated by the love poems of the young eagles or Song of both worlds.
Yuyutsu RD Sharma was in charge of closing the recital, by the poets of the world, with a series of lines in which were very much the landscapes of his native Nepal, and completed with a reading in Nepali.

The fifteen students, eleven men and four women, which this year have attended the workshop also recited two poems to complete the act. His instructor, Vanessa Alejandra stressed that this cultural initiative, students not only learn literary techniques "but to express what they have inside.
In this fourth edition, whose production is covered in the plaquette Melody of 2010 inmates have participated poets Jesus Fernandez, Maria Gonzalez, and Ana Matilde Cabello Patricia Santaella who have come to the prison inmates to share their literary experience.

At the closing ceremony of Poetry for freedom have attended the Councillor for Education of the City of Cordoba, Elena Cortes, Equality, Marian Ruiz, President of CIC-Bata, Federico Romero, and the director of the Prison Cordoba, Ana Martín .