{"id":53119,"date":"2022-08-18T11:38:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T11:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=53119"},"modified":"2022-08-18T13:08:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:08:53","slug":"international-poetry-reading","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/international-poetry-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"International Poetry Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>International Poetry Reading<\/h2>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz\">In times of post-pandemic, war and a sense of natural apocalypse, it\u2019s still important to remember that we are human beings, persons, and that we share a common space and that creativity helps us cope with what we experience and what is going on around us. It\u2019s important that the ones who have a history have the right to remember it, for us who live in the presence to have the right to re-create our memories and other poetic materials the way we want and feel the need for; and to co-create it and to create our lives and identities according to our own sensibility, culture and language, and in relation to our surroundings, past or present.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz\">Autofiction is the thread that weaves together the six poets who participate in this poetry reading. What each of them knows and what each of them imagines are the colors that taint their different poetic fabrics and make them unique.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz\">Participating Poets:<br \/>\n<strong>Johan J\u00f6nson (Sweden)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Le\u00f3n Plascencia \u00d1ol (Mexico)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Heidi von Wright (Finland)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Haukur Ingvarsson (Iceland)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Roxana Cris\u00f3logo (Finland)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Mar\u00eda Ramos (Iceland)<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz\">Translators:<br \/>\n<strong>Halla Kjartansd\u00f3ttir<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Margr\u00e9t L\u00f3a J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>John Swedenmark<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Petronella Zetterlund<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz\">Presented by<br \/>\n<strong>Petronella Zetterlund and Margr\u00e9t L\u00f3a J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz\">Organizers:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/noxlit.com\/\">NOXLit<\/a><br \/>\nReykjav\u00edk UNESCO City of Literature<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petzetera.com\/\">Petzetera<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Poetry Reading In times of post-pandemic, war and a sense of natural apocalypse, it\u2019s still important to remember that we are human beings, persons, and that we share a common space and that creativity helps us cope with what we experience and what is going on around us. It\u2019s important that the ones who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":53114,"template":"","event-categories":[8],"class_list":["post-53119","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-categories-literature","no-banner-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/53119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=53119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}