“Cultural venues really work when they are accessible to everyone. For this reason we decided to create a space dedicated to poetry inside our provincial library”.
These are the words of Nino Lombardi, president of the Province of Benevento, and Raffaele Del Vecchio, sole director of Sannio Europa, an in-house providing company of the Province of Benevento that manages and promotes the museum network in the Sannio capital, during the inauguration of the “Room for Poetry”, held in the afternoon at the provincial library of Benevento.
“The project – explained Nicola Sguera, curator of the initiative promoted by the Province – is ideally connected to an event in 2010, when a poetry festival was organized that brought great poets to the city ('Poetry in the form of a rose').
And, even before that, to the initiatives of 'La rosa necessari' in the Nineties. Having a 'public' space as a 'common' place is essential for poetry to be recited in public, even though it is an art that today has a very small audience.
Let's talk about poetry, so let's play (seriously) with words. The term 'Tópos' (place, site) in literature indicates a common place, a convention inherited from tradition. The room that will host the voices of poets, or will evoke their presence, recalls the one that Virginia Woolf claimed for women, marginal in history until then, as poetry is today”.
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