The Oslo International Poetry Festival (OIPF) was held on June 14 to 16th, 1985 and also August 14 to 20th, 1986.
Participants were, among many other:
Octavio Paz Sonia Sanchez James Baldwin Andreij Voznesinsky Gherasim Luca R. D. Laing Roger Greenwald Jan Verner-Carlsson Protima Bedi Gherasim Luca Rolf Jacobsen Horst Baumann Piet Hein Albert Nordengen Åse Kleveland Karin Krogh Noel Cobb Lawrence Ferlinghetti William Irwin Thompson Karl Pribram Wayne Garcia Joolz Randall Meyers Hazel Henderson Patricia Leventon Arne Næss Francis Huxley Robert Anton Wilson Adele Getty, Ntozake Shange Ustad Nazim Ali Khan Sirje Kaerma A.T.H. Ljungberg Tomas Tranströmer Göran Tunström Bodil Lindfors Jarkko Laine Ellen Einan Warren R. Carlstrom Arne Nordheim Rói Patursson Anthony Barnett Robert Haraldsen The Fugs Erik Bye Russell Hoban Walter Ahart Mathew Collins Frode Alnæs
The Norwegian author Axel Jensen was chairman of OIPF in 1985 and in 1986. In the committees were also:
Olav Angell Lasse Tømte Halfdan W. Freihow Thomas Bay Robert Haraldsen Jan Christian Mollestad Cecilie Sverre Kjell Finstad Kristin Hansen Randi Mikkelsen Tone Hovland Sven Bjørk Pelle Gustavsen Erik Varjord Ellen Lange Pratibha Jensen Bjørn Stendahl Wayne Garcia Khalid Thathad Marte Askeland Geir Giske Trygve Åslund Tom Knutzen Ikhlaque Chan, Klaus Fjellberg.
Robert Anton Wilson dedicates his book "Wilhelm Reich in Hell","...to all political prisoners, wherever they may be."' and writes: "I recently had the honor of writing the statement of principles that concluded the 1986 International Poetry Festival in Oslo, Norway, which was signed by all the participating artists and scientists. That statement is printed below, to transmit again a signal of solidarity with all victims of tyranny:
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