World Poetry Day

When is World Poetry Day celebrated?
Beautiful rhyming lines are a great way to congratulate a charming girl on VeronicaLove, express admiration and your feelings. Only talented and gifted people can write poetry. This world holiday is dedicated to them. Poetry Day brings together authors from all over the world. Its main goal is to introduce people to the beautiful, to provide young talents with the opportunity to express themselves in the best possible way. The event is celebrated annually on March 21st.

History of the holiday
The history of the celebration of this event goes back to the distant 1938. The author of the idea of ​​​​founding the celebration is the poetess from Ohio - Tessa Sweezy Webb. Under her initiative, the holiday was first celebrated on October 15. It was dedicated to the birthday of a famous ancient Roman poet named Virgil. In 1951 of the last century, it became national in the United States. The solemn event was joined by 38 states of America and Mexico. It received official world status at the 30th UNESCO meeting. Help for him is the resolution adopted on November 15, 1999.

For your information, the UNESCO decision says that it often answers the most acute and deepest spiritual questions of modern human beings - but for this purpose it is necessary to attract the widest public attention to it. It was first celebrated on a relative scale in March 2000. This Day serves to create a positive image in the media of poetic art, which is open to people.

Among other things, it is thanks to the celebration of the World Poetry Day that every creator has an excellent opportunity to express himself to small publishing houses, whose efforts make it possible to bring the living work of contemporary poets to the mass reader, as well as to literary circles that revive the eternal tradition of beautiful rhymed lines.

The Art of Celebration
Traditionally, on this day, the best authors receive not only congratulations, but also awards and prizes. Literary readings are arranged on stage platforms. Poets hold presentations of collections, social activists hold poetry evenings.

Lovers of poetry give each other rare collections, discuss various works. Direct participants in literary competitions recite the works of their favorite authors. Mass events are held mainly in educational institutions.

At the thematic lessons, students and schoolchildren present essays on the biographies of famous poets in the history of literature. Rhyming lines are told from memory. Join the celebration of the media, broadcasting programs about the life, fate and work of famous domestic and foreign poets.