“Cuban poet Waldo Leyva, winner of the Casa de America Award, is the guest of honor of this meeting,” the organizing committee told Prensa Latina in a release.

The document adds that writers from Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Chile, Italy, Mexico, and Venezuela have been invited.

The sources informed that after being honored as a guest of honor this Wednesday, the Cuban bard will participate in a reading table with his colleagues Patricia Gutierrez, Marcelo Canavire, Paura Rodriguez, and Tania Ganitsky (Colombia).

As a closure of the 11th Poetry Meeting, which started on June 3, Leyva and the other foreign guests will offer a reading in Samaipata at the La Mexicana Cultural Center on June 8, in which residents in Santa Cruz and members of the Llamarada Verde and Trueque Poetico workshops will participate.

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