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Why a meeting on poetry? This question is answered by poets from the 6 Apulian provinces, in the seminar day organized by the Milella publishing house and the magazine "Crossroads," in collaboration with the Lecce Biblio-museum Pole...

An eclectic and ductile vine, an identity symbol of that tongue of land squeezed between the two seas, the Ionian and the Adriatic, that is Salento. It is Negroamaro, whose ancient origins are recounted in the book "Negroamaro...

For "Viva Calvino," the solo show dedicated by the OgniBene library to the Havana-born intellectual, this month's meeting is with "Marcovaldo," read by writer and cultural worker Osvaldo Piliego. Released in...

This is the poetic debut of Salento-born scenographer Paola Maritati, who publishes her first collection of verses 'Lingua Volgare' for Musicaos, Collana di Poesia. The reading and presentation by the author, who dialogues with...

Two books in one, a family novel and a reportage on the desiccation of olive trees in Salento caused by Xylella. 'Il fuoco invisibile. A human history of a natural disaster', just published by Rizzoli, is the latest literary effort by...

It is a bit like looking through a peephole at a personal black and white juncture, during which all certainties have been questioned. "Distanti", the photographic book by Andrea Gabellone, photoreporter of the UNHCR team and journalist from...

"The Tower of Pisa or apartment blocks in Hong Kong have the same purpose: they are the photographic set of that moment. Whether they are monuments, world heritage sites or degraded places, what emerges is a...

The OgniBene community library celebrates the year already renamed Calvinian, since Italo Calvino was born a century ago, precisely on Oct. 15, 1923. To mark the occasion, every last Friday of the month it hosts "Viva Calvino," a...

Second day dedicated to "making verses" in the spaces of the Bernardini Library on the occasion of the World Poetry Day established by Unesco. The "guest" of the evening is the "Supreme Poet" who, with the "Sounds of Verse" association, will...

Two days dedicated to "making verse". On the occasion of World Poetry Day established by Unesco, the Lecce Biblio-Museum Pole and the Bernardini Library Poetry Observatory are organising two days dedicated to the poetic word, this year intended as a tool...