Manifest

The Poetic Flood

For a world without borders or barbarism

The insatiable, devastating desire of those running the world is all around us. The ravenous economy, seething with hatred, wars, and massacres, that leaves people starving, that fuels violent divisions between us, that throws migrants on the streets, while rich countries confine them to camps at their borders.

More and more people are building walls, and here’s what they need to know:
 

Yes! The world is for everyone, or no one at all.

Borders are scars on the earth, and poets today—of all languages and from all latitudes—provide another face and voice of humanity, to stand up against modern-day barbarism.

Yes! Today, the flood is rising. 

It’s the avid poets, artists, and those who believe in sharing this creativity with everyone.

It’s the fever of words and images that will break down the walls that separate us.

It’s a poem’s inner clarity that can overcome pride.

It’s the colors and sounds of our community, against the smog of division.

Yes! A real poetic flood.

We’ll create art using every medium against the visible and invisible walls of "globalization".

 We’re part of this incoming movement, welcoming the impoverished and initiating a flow of nomadic thought across cultures and civilizations.

We’ll experiment full-heartedly and in collective solidarity, through our actions, interventions and performances; a "poetic flood" in a world without borders or barbarism.

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