In the afternoon of September 16th, the poetry exchange event of the “2025 International Youth Poetry Festival (China-Latin American Countries Special Session)”, sponsored by the China Writers Association and the Publicity Department of the CPC Shaanxi Provincial Committee, was held at Northwest University. Fourteen Latin American poets from countries including Chile, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, and Uruguay, 12 Chinese poets, as well as experts from inside and outside the university and literature enthusiasts, engaged in a poetic dialogue transcending languages and cultures at this 120-year-old institution of higher learning. With the theme of “Echoes of Civilizations”, this Youth Poetry Festival evoked echoes and resonances among different civilizations.
Representative Latin American poets, including Pablo Jofré, Victoria Ramírez Mansilla, Lauri García Dueñas, Roberto Javier Acuña, Adrián Mendieta Moctezuma, and Regina Ramos, gave recitations of their original poems titled “Self-Indulgence”, “The Pollen Theory”, “Pain”, “Noon”, “Refuge”, “Bread Crumbs”, and “Spider Web” respectively. Meanwhile, representative Chinese poets such as Wang Zigua, Wu Yue, Yin Dongzai, Zhou Wenting, Zhu Yu, and Zuo You recited their works entitled “Entering the Picture”, “Evening Note by the Lake”, “The World Admonished by Mother”, “Starting from the Tumbleweed”, “Beginning of Spring”, and “Listening to Sounds” in sequence.
The Q&A exchange session was hosted by Jing Qi, a teacher from the School of Journalism and Communication. Latin American poets Javier Bello, Nora Méndez, Carlos Ordóñez, Manuel Cuautle, Horacio Cavallo, along with Chinese poets Xu Xing, Yuan Shaoshan, and Zi Fei, shared their concepts and insights on poetry creation around themes like civilization inheritance and cultural mutual learning, and interacted with teachers and students present through Q&A.
During the impromptu poetry response session, Latin American poets Tamym Maulén, Jorge Galán, Manuel Becerra, and Chinese poets Xu Xiao, Zhang Huijun, Zou Shengnian, Huang Xuechan, and Li Yansong created and shared poems on the same theme of “Land” on the spot.
The “2025 International Youth Poetry Festival (China-Latin American Countries Special Session)” has been included in the action plan list of the Global Ministerial Conference on Dialogue of Civilizations.