Mahmoud Darwish Poetry Day 2026: Lilou Vidal's Poetry Camp at Paint It Black, Turin

Fatti principali

• The Mahmoud Darwish Poetry Day took place on 26–27 September 2026 at Paint It Black in Turin.
• The project I Don’t Want This Poem to End ( ) was curated by Lilou Vidal and conceived as a 'poetry camp'.
• It was the Turin chapter of Poetry Day, launched in 2020 at the Centre Pompidou.
• The 2026 Stagione Mediterranea edition was dedicated to Mahmoud Darwish and organised with the Institut du Monde Arabe.
• Participants included Radio Alhara, Ghayath Almadhoun, Asmaa Azaizeh, Maria Luce Cacciaguerra, Jahan Khajavi, Jumana Manna, Reza Mirabi and Rosalind Nashashibi.
• A mail art project with Literal Madness involved Allison Grimaldi Donahue, Carla Harryman, Sahar Khraibani, Shiv Kotecha, Tiziana La Melia, Nadia Marcus, Lydia Ourahmane, sadé powell, Pamela Sneed and Jackie Wang, with about 80 sign-ups.
• Vidal chose Paint It Black for its hybrid format and connection to Margherita Rossi, whom she met during her earlier project Exercise of Poetic Communication dedicated to Ernesto de Sousa.
• Darwish was born in Al-Birwa in 1941 and died in Houston in 2008; his poem This Is My Language was cited regarding language preservation.