100 poets from around the world protest against the killing of poets, mothers and children in war

100 freedom-loving poets from around the world protested against the killing of 3 poets in Israel’s attacks on Iran and Gaza, as well as against the killing of mothers and children anywhere in the world.

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سه‌شنبه - ۱۵ تير ۲۰۲۶ / 2026 15 April

These 100 poets from different countries and continents signed a protest statement that was written at the initiative of Iranian poet Alireza Bahrami, editor-in-chief of Asre Rowshan magazine.

(Poets who want their names to be included as signatories of this statement can leave Their name and the name of their country at the bottom of this text, in the comments.

The new list of signatories of the statement will be updated and announced in several times.)

Statement and list of signatory poets and names of countries:

The monster of war is destructive. It is the enemy of people's lives and all human values that have been tried to be discovered for centuries.

The monster of war is against all creation and is the beginning of destruction. It kills children and women. The demon of war also kills poets; the heirs of water, wisdom and light.

Parnia Abbasi, an Iranian poet, was killed in her bed, at home, by one of the Israeli attacks on Tehran. She was 24 years old and did not have the opportunity to see the publication of her first book of poetry.

Heba Abu Nada was another poet who was killed a few months ago in the bombings of Gaza by the army of the occupying army of Israel. She was 32 years old and published several books of poetry. Rifaat al-Arir was also a 44-year-old poet and university lecturer who was killed in the same way.

Poets are narrators of the beauties of the world and life who reveal the ugly face of war.

We, the freedom-loving poets of the world, with respect for the difference in human beliefs, condemn the murder of children, mothers and poets everywhere in the world.

We hope that politicians will reach a point of transformation that they will read a book of poetry and then think a little.

Signatories:

Ahmed Mossad Ahmed – Egypt

Ali Al-Shalah – Iraq

Alireza Bahrami – Iran

Alex Pausides – Cuba

Al-Hassan Al-Kameh – Morocco

Amer Al-Tayeb - Iraq

Ana María Oviedo Palomares – Venezuela

Angela Kosta – Albania

Anne Waldman – USA

Annie John – India

Antonio Trujillo – Venezuela

Armine Vaghramyan Pahlavuni – Armenia

Ashraf Aboul-Yazid (Ashraf Dali) – Egypt

Augustin Guambo – Ecuador

Avaz Qurbanlı - Azerbaijan

Belen Ojeda – Venezuela

Benjamin Martinez Hernandez – Venezuela

Bhawani Shankar Nial – India

Bhoj Kumar Dhamala – Nepal

Cao Shui - China

Carlos Aldazabel – Argentina

Chari Gumeta - Mexico

Deena Elsheikh – Canada

Edgar Mendez – Venezuela

Elisa Mascia - Italy

Eralieva Umutkan Polotovna – Kyrgyzstan

Ertekin -Turkey

EVA Petropoulou Lianou – Greece

Eyup Yelgen - Turkey

Fatima mahdi sahmarani – Lebanon

Feira Lisboa – Venezuela

Felipe Garcia Quentero – Colombia

Franca Colozzo – Italy

Francesco Favetta - Italy

Francis Kurkiev - Eastern Europe

Freddy Nunez – Venezuela

Ferhat Yaşar - Turkey

Fernando Rendon – Colombia

Georg Onsy – Egypt

Giselle Lucia Navarro – Cuba

Hamid Nazarkhah Alisaraei – Iran

Hassan Najmi – Morocco

Heyk Piment - Brazil

Ilaria Giovinazzo – Italy

Javier Cevalloos Perugachia - Ecuador

Joussette Rivodo – Venezuela

Kari Krenn- Argentina

Kristina Anastasia Veras Brzin- Slovenia

Leonardo G. Ruiz – Venezuela

Leonardo Gustavo Ruiz – Venezuela

Linda Kamel – Algeri

Luica Estrada – Colombia

Manik chakrabarty – Bangladesh

Marcia Batista Ramos - Brazil

Marco Antonio Rodríguez Sequeiros – Bolivia

Maria Kolovou Roumelioti – Greece

Marlene Ayala - Argentina

Maria Laura Blanco - Uruguay

Melin Nova - India

Melissa Sauma Vaca - Bolivia

Melita Mely Ratković – Serbia

Memo Acuna - Costa Rica

Moamen Samir - Egypt

Monica Neri – Romania

Mohsen Karimi Rahjerdi – Iran

Muhammad Amir Hossain - Bangladesh

Muhammad Shamsul Huq Babu – Bangladesh

Muhammad Shanazar – Pakistan

Najat Abdulla – Iraq

Narek Manveli Paponzh Arakelyan - Armenia

Nazlı Şehzade – Turkey

Nia Amira Osman – Indonesia

Niloy Rafiq - Bangladesh

Nurcan Ateş – Turky

Nursel Ertekin -Turkey

Nusseiba AttaAllah – Algeria

Penélope Claret Toro León – Venezuela

Perwaiz Shaharyar – India

Reem Gomri – Tunisia

Rodolfo Ramirez Soto – Colombia

Saber Sadipoor – Iran

Sadik Beşirli – Iraq (Turkmen)

Sadikur Rahman Rumen – Bangladesh

Samar Najia – USA

Sanjukta Dasgupta – India

Sepideh Jodeyri – Iran - USA

Shirley Villalba – Paraguay

Subhrasankar – India

Sudipto Chatterjee – India

Sumana Naznin – Bangladesh

Sylvie Marie – Belgium

Tumpa Pal – India

Turkia Loucif - Algeria

Vahid Talat - Iran

Virginia Fernandez Collado – Spain

Wali Mahmud - Bangladesh

Wingston Gonzales – Guatemala

Yudum Mingan – Turkey

Zahra Khorshidi – UAE

Zeinab Akil - Lebanon

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