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{{Short description|Indian potery festival}}
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* Gopichand Paruchuri
* Nagasuseela Panchumarthi
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|country = India
|location = [[Guntur, Andhra Pradesh]]
|venue = [[Jagarlamudi Kuppuswamy Chowdary College]]
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The '''Guntur International Poetry Festival''' ([[Telugu language|Telugu]]: గుంటూరు అంతర్జాతీయ కవితోత్సవం), also known as '''GIPF''', is a [[literary festival]] which takes place annually in the Indian city [[Guntur, Andhra Pradesh]]. Gopichand Paruchuri and Nagasuseela Panchumarthi are the founders and organisers of the festival.<ref>{{cite web|author=The Hans India |url=https://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Hans/2015-01-28/On-a-mission-to-promote-English-in-the-city/128170 |title=On a mission to promote English in the city |publisher=Thehansindia.com |date=2015-01-28 |accessdate=2021-11-05}}</ref>

==History==

[[File:12th Guntur International Poetry Festival (GIPF).jpg|thumb|left|12th Guntur International Poetry Festival (GIPF)]]
GIPF is an annual non-profit, zero registration fee, invitation only poetry recitation event conducted to encourage budding and enthusiastic poets from India and abroad since 2008 by Poets and Lecturers Gopichand Paruchuri & Nagasuseela Panchumarthi.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gipf.club/organizers|title = Guntur International Poetry Festival | Organizers}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Guntur to host national poetry fete |agency=The Hindu |publisher=N. Ravi |date=19 June 2008}}</ref> Invitation to recite poem in the event is inaugurated every year according to the programme calendar released around the month of March. After scrutiny of the entries by the panel, shortlisted poets are invited for the Festival to present the poems to the fest audience. GIPF usually falls on (or) around the International Day of Peace i.e. on 21 September, as themes of poems are predominantly in the backdrop of Peace, Human Values & Non-Violence.<ref>{{cite web|title=Guntur hosts 9th International Poetry Festival|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/andhra-pradesh/2016/sep/22/guntur-hosts-9th-international-poetry-festival-1522232.html|access-date=2021-07-10|website=The New Indian Express|date=22 September 2016 }}</ref> Poets recite poems which were selected by the jury in the day session which would later be published in Fest Anthology. Later in the evening Poets recite poems in their Vernacular Languages under the candle lit lights as a mark of solidarity to the victims of Violence in all forms. Last Poetry Festival was held on September 20 and 21, 2019<ref>{{cite web|title=12th GIPF - 2019 - YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB6nt4euC7vZTV2EW8kspp3doPS7aLLJl|access-date=2021-07-11|website=www.youtube.com}}</ref> attended by poets from the United Kingdom, Poland, India, Maldives, the United States, Philippines and Bhutan.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gipf.club/fest-in-news|title = Fest in News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=2019-09-20|title=అద్భుతం.. ఆంగ్ల కవిత్వం|url=https://www.sakshi.com/news/andhra-pradesh/guntur-international-poetry-festival-celebrations-jkc-collage-1225896|access-date=2021-07-10|website=Sakshi|language=te}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Guntur District, 21-09-2019 : readwhere|url=https://epaper.sakshi.com/m5/2336825/Guntur-District/21-09-2019#sample/10/1|access-date=2021-07-10|website=epaper.sakshi.com}}</ref>
[[File:Felicitating Renata Cygan.jpg|thumb|Felicitating poet Renata Cygan]]

[[File:Agnieszka Jarzębowska and Alicja Maria Kuberska presenting poems at 12th GIPF.jpg|thumb|Poets Agnieszka Jarzębowska and Alicja Maria Kuberska]]

[[File:Poets Signing a Peace cloth at 12th GIPF.jpg|thumb|Poets Signing a Peace cloth at 12th GIPF]]

[[File:Lamp Lighting ceremony at Guntur International Poetry Festival (GIPF).jpg|thumb|Lamp Lighting ceremony at Guntur International Poetry Festival (GIPF)]]

===Notable participants in 12th GIPF 2019===
The following notable poets and literary personalities participated in the 2019 Guntur International Poetry Festival.

* Renata Cygan
* Agnieszka Jarzębowska <ref>{{cite web|author=agronsh |url=https://atunispoetry.com/2021/01/03/agnieszka-jarzebowska-poland/ |title=Agnieszka Jarzębowska (Poland) | ATUNIS GALAXY POETRY |publisher=Atunispoetry.com |date=2021-01-03 |accessdate=2021-11-05}}</ref>
* Ryszard Grajek
* Anna Czachorowska
* Izabela Zubko
* Sagar Kataria
* Bozena Helena Mazur Nowak
* Dr. Lanka Siva Rama Prasad
* Alicja Kuberska
* Eden S. Trinidad
* [[K. V. Dominic]]
* Pramila Khadun
* Nehabhandarkar

==2020 edition of GIPF==

In 2020 Due to COVID situation 13th edition of GIPF <ref>{{cite web|title=13th GIPF - 2020 - YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB6nt4euC7vbYj0X2nWvEge93OofgnutM|access-date=2021-07-11|website=www.youtube.com}}</ref> was conducted virtually on 7–12 July 2020 in which more than 200 poets recited poems dedicated to COVID frontline workers and victims of COVID.<ref>{{cite web|date=2020-07-10|title=13th Guntur International Poetry Festival|url=https://myunshackledmind.com/2020/07/10/13th-guntur-international-poetry-festival/|access-date=2021-07-10|website=My Unshackled Mind|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Director of the Arabic Network in the Philippines Eden S. Trinidad 13th GIPF 2020 By: Eden Soriano Trinidad 13th Guntur International Poetry Festival Guntur College,Guntur Andra, Pradesh, India July 7 -14, 2020|url=https://www.arabicnetwork.net/2020/07/director-of-arabic-network-in.html|access-date=2021-07-10|language=ar}}</ref>

== See also ==
{{portal |Literature|India}}
* [[Literary festival]]
* [[List of literary festivals in India]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
*[http://gipf.club/ Official Website]

[[Category:Literary festivals in India]]
[[Category:Literary festivals in Asia]]

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Prabhash Sharma at 06:48, 3 August 2025