Are You Celebrating the World Poetry Day (March, 21) ?
World Poetry Day on Monday will be marked with a tribute to Greece’s Nobel Literature Prize laureate Odysseas Elytis (1979), as 2011 has been declared ‘Elytis Year’ by Greece’s culture and tourism ministry.
March 21 was declared as World Poetry Day by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999 for the purpose of promoting the reading, writing, publishing and teaching of poetry throughout the world, and to,
give fresh recognition and impetus to national, regional and international poetry movements.
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about 1 year ago
I didn’t celebrate it, but I write poetry. So I celebrate it at least once a week ;-)
Whether my poems are any good, I don’t know. I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder, even with poetry.
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