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Article: Poetry by the meter
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PEGGY CIDOR
Jerusalem Post
07-10-2009
Headline: Poetry by the meter
Byline: PEGGY CIDOR
Edition; In Jerusalem
Section: Arts
Page: 23
Friday, July 10, 2009 -- Jerusalem it seems is the perfect place to create new traditions or renew ancient ones. One new trend is the Square Meter poetry festival, organized by Dr. Gilad Meiri and his partners at A Place for Poetry at the Lev Ha'ir community center last weekend.
Meiri, Shay Dotan, Dorit Waissman, Lior Sternberg and Ariel Zinder, members of the Ktovet poetry group succeeded where so many others have given up, creating and maintaining a small but high-quality poetry festival.
During the three days of the festival, well-known Israeli poets shared ...