language > SLIM ~ The Voice of Words: A Conversation with Claudio Pozzani

For the Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo (Week of Italian Language in the World), the Library of Congress, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Washington and the Italian Cultural Society, presents The Voice of Words, an engaging conversation and poetry performance with author Claudio Pozzani.

An internationally acclaimed poet, Pozzani is known for his enthralling poetic performances at literary festivals in Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and North America.

LOCATION
📍Thomas Jefferson Building
Hispanic Reading Room – (LJ-240)
10 1st Street SE, Washington, DC 20540

Poet and narrator, Claudio Pozzani was born in Genoa in 1961. His poems are translated and published in over ten countries and have appeared in important anthologies and magazines of contemporary international poetry. Pozzani founded and directed the Circolo dei Viaggiatori nel Tempo (CVT, the Circle of Time Travelers), which operates in the field of art and culture, favoring poetry, music and visual arts, and was the mind behind the conception and promotion of the International Poetry Festival of Genoa “Parole Spalancate” (Words wide open). Other events designed and organized by Claudio Pozzani are the Poétique semaine in Paris, BruggePoésie, the Helsinki Runo Festival, Musik & Poems Munchen in Germany and the Euro-Japanese Tokyo Poetry Festival in Japan.In 2001 he created the room of poetry located at Palazzo Ducale in Genoa. Among his works there are :  La marcia dell’ombra (The march of the shadow, CVTrecords, 2010), the essay L’orlo del fastidio – Appunti per una rivoluzione tascabile e infettiva (The hem of annoyance – Notes for a pocket and infectious revolution, Liberodiscrivere, 2017) and the anthology Spalancati spazi – Poesie 1995-2016 (Wide open spaces – Poems 1995-2016, Passigli, 2017).

The Week of the Italian Language in the World is an event that has been held since 2001 and that over time has become one of the most important initiatives dedicated to the celebration of the Italian language internationally. Since its establishment, the initiative has been awarded each year High Patronage by the Presidency of the Republic. Each Week is dedicated to a different theme, which serves as a common thread for a rich programme of conferences, exhibitions and meetings. The previous editions of the Week had focused on ties with creativity, in particular the cultural industries such as music (2015), design and fashion (2016) and film (2017). The 2018 edition explored the relationship between language and the web, in both its physical and digital sense. The 2019 edition, titled “L’Italiano sul palcoscenico” (Italian on the stage), involved around 900 events in more than 100 countries, dedicated to music, popular song, theatre, drama and melodrama.