The Struggle of the World Poetry Movement

The Nuclear Explosion opens a bold poetic series that brings together selected voices from the three major poetry movements shaping the world today: the World Poetry Movement, the Beijing Postmodernism Poetry Movement, and the Great Poetry Movement. Conceived as a space of convergence rather than confrontation, this series presents poetry as a dynamic force capable of capturing the shocks, hopes, and transformations of contemporary humanity. By placing these movements side by side, the publication affirms that despite differences in language, aesthetics, and cultural roots, world poetry shares a common urgency: to respond to the moral, existential, and imaginative challenges of our time through the power of the word. Prepare for THE SILK ROAD TODAY BY CAO SHUI

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The Struggle of the World Poetry Movement：

Realizing the Dream of a New Humanity

Through the Planetary Poetic Revolution

By Fernando Rendón

The World Poetry Movement was founded in July 2011 in Medellín, on the initiative of the Medellín International Poetry Festival, with the participation of 37 directors of international poetry festivals. Its immediate goal was to unite the world’s poets to fight together for global causes, to interchange experiences and coordinate poetry events and projects around the world.

Prominent poets and festival directors such as Bas Kwakman, Peter Rorvik, Jack Hirschman, Rati Saxena, and Alex Pausides, among others, participated in its constitution. A Coordinating Committee was immediately formed, which has been meeting regularly since then to plan and develop its strategy of unity for poetic and spiritual resistance in a world experiencing an unprecedented global confrontation.

In 2023, following American poet Jack Hirschman, Fernando Rendon was re-elected as the General Coordinator. The current continental coordinators consist of 24 poets, including the Asian coordinators: Indian poet Rati Saxena, Chinese poet Jidi Majia, Nepalese poet Keshab Sigdel, Russian poet Vadim Terekhin, Chinese poet Cao Shui, Palestinian poet Abdulla Issa, Bangladeshi poet Aminur Rahman, and Palestinian poet Hanan Awwad. African coordinators: Algerian poet Achour Fenni, South African poet Zolani Mkiva, Egyptian poet Ashraf Aboul Yazid, Lesotho poet Siphiwe Nzima, Moroccan poet Khalid Raissouni. European coordinators: Spanish poet Maria Angeles Perez Lopez, Belgian poet Sylvie Marie, Portuguese poet Isilda Nunes, Türkiye poet Fadil Oktay, Greek poet Christos Koukis. American coordinators: Venezuelan poet Freddy Nanez, Cuban poet Alex Pausides, Chilean poet Oscar Saavedra Villarroel, Venezuelan poet Ana Maria Oviedo, and Chilean poet Maribel Mora Curriao. Oceania Coordinator: New Zealand poet Christine Peiying Chen.

For 14 years, WPM has developed 24 global poetic actions, the latest of which were for Gaza and Palestine, and others for world peace, solidarity with indigenous peoples and migrants, support for the anti-colonial struggle of African peoples, the environment, and for a world without walls. One of our main lines of work is taking shape in the creation of Movement poetry schools, which are currently operating in Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia, Chile, China, India, Bangladesh, and Honduras, and are spreading to new countries. The Movement currently has national coordinators in 125 countries. In 2023, the first Congress of our Movement was held in Medellín and Caracas, where a first Strategic Plan for the period 2023-2028 was debated and approved.

In a world plagued by constant wars, threatened by nuclear catastrophe, with peoples ravaged by hunger and a planet suffering from increasing deforestation and pollution, undergoing a process that generates unbearable temperatures in various geographical areas, the shared thinking and unified work of a progressively larger group of poets from around the world symbolizes the dream of a new humanity through a planetary poetic revolution, the legitimate aspiration of peoples for a human spring, through wise dialogue and generous and fair negotiations that lead to the establishment of a peaceful, harmonious, collectivist, and deeply equitable world, which promotes the extinction of wars and weapons of mass destruction and addresses the restoration of the earth and the reconstitution of the human spirit. 

This is the essence of our struggle and the vital motivation behind our call to work together for a secure future for the planet and for humanity.