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The outcry sparked by the publication of a column in “Libération” refusing that the writer sponsor the 2024 edition sheds light on the functioning of the institution: brutal management of its director Sophie Nauleau, between oneself and “dusty” vision of the poetry.
Publication in Release of the forum contesting the choice of Sylvain Tesson to sponsor the 2024 edition of the Spring of Poets highlighted the event which takes place every year in March and offers the public readings and conferences around the literary genre. By pointing out the traveling writer’s connections with the far right, the text, signed by more than 2,000 actors from the world of culture, sparked a lively controversy, with ministerial reactions as a bonus, and an expected debate on freedom expression of artists.
However, it is not the controversial figure of Sylvain Tesson who has been shaking up the microcosm of poetry for years but more the role of the institution created in 1999, imagined by Jack Lang, and chaired by the writer Sophie Nauleau since 2018. “With this