OTHER WORDS 4th San Francisco International Poetry Festival will draw poets from ten different nations to a
variety of local venues from October 13-16, co-sponsored by the San Francisco offices of several international
consulates and cultural institutes, along with local literary arts organizations.

Taking place for the fourth time in six years, the OTHER WORDS San Francisco International Poetry Festival
will this year bring together fifteen poets & performing artists from a diversity of ten nations: Belgium, Finland,
France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Iraq, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.S.A. The poets will read their own poetry
in its original language (as is the practice at international poetry festivals worldwide), with English-language
translations, the work of acclaimed translators, read by the poet or translator. Newly appointed California
State Poet Laureate Al Young will be on hand to greet the visiting poets and read from his own poetry.
ANIMA MUNDI Dance Company presents choreography by Kathryn Roszak: “Enter Their Dreaming; Windows
into the Worlds of Emily Dickinson and Rainer Maria Rilke,” including poetry and letters of Emily Dickinson
and Rilke.