Student poets will read their work and show video poems at an international poetry festival as part of the Refugee Poetry Project.
The project is part of the International Refugee Poetry Network and allows creative writing students in Lincoln to work with young poets from refugee camps in Rwanda, providing support to local writing groups, running writing workshops and fundraising.
Students will recite some of the work created at the 2020 On the Wings of Technology International Poetry Festival, which will take place from the 27th – 29th of November in partnership with Goethe-Institut, Pro Helvetia and Literaturhaus Zurich. It will be streamed online through Zoom and five creative writing students will be appearing.
Daniele Pantano, Programme Leader for the MA Creative Writing and founder of the Refugee Poetry Project, said: “The Refugee Poetry Project at the University of Lincoln, which is part of the International Refugee Poetry Network, allows our Creative Writing students to collaborate with young poets from refugee camps in Rwanda not only on exciting writing projects, but on important and necessary initiatives that will create opportunities for refugee poets to share their stories with an international audience and provide platforms for change.”
The Refugee Poetry Network’s projects have been supported by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and Justice Arts and Migration Network among others.
To find out more about the project please visit: https://www.refugeepoetry.org/
To find out more about the festival please visit: https://www.refugeepoetry.org/2020poetryfestival