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Genoa International Poetry Festival
Thu 05 Jun
|Metropolitan City of Genoa
The GENOA INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL “PAROLE SPALANCATE” (wide open words) is the largest and longest-running poetry event in Italy, with over 1,900 poets and artists having taken part in the 30 editions organised so far.
Time & Location
05 Jun 2025, 19:00 – 16 Jun 2025, 23:00
Metropolitan City of Genoa, Metropolitan City of Genoa, Italy
About the event
The GENOA INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL “PAROLE SPALANCATE” (wide open words) is the largest and longest-running poetry event in Italy, with over 1,900 poets and artists having taken part in the 30 editions organised so far.
The Festival has been created in 1995 by Italian poet and musician Claudio Pozzani 1995 who is still the director. It is organized by the cultural association Circolo dei Viaggiatori nel Tempo (CVT).
The Festival is organized by Circolo dei Viaggiatori nel Tempo and directed by the poet Claudio Pozzani since its creation.
It presents poetry in relation to other art forms (music, video and cinema, theater, visual and plastic arts, dance) and the new media.
The venues are beaches, historical buildings, clubs, bookstores, libraries, parks and, above all, Palazzo Ducale, the most important historical building of the city.