San Francisco International Poetry Festival

Courtesy French Culture  Thu, 08/21/2008 - 18:16

The Other Words International Poetry Festival began in San Francisco in Fall 1999, organized by the consulates and cultural institutes of several European countries operating in San Francisco, working together with two or three locally-based literary and arts institutions.

This year's Festival will once again gather poets from different countries and origins:

Michel Abdollahi , born in Teheran in 1981, has been living in Hamburg, Germany, for more than 20 years.

He studied law, then entered the slam...


 

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