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 *