World Poetry Day

World Poetry Day

World Poetry Day is on March 21, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999. The purpose of the day is to promote the reading, writing, publishing and teaching of poetry throughout the world and, as the UNESCO session declaring the day says, to "give fresh recognition and impetus to national, regional and international poetry movements."

World Poetry Day has existed in some form since at least 1505,Fact|date=March 2008 according to the National Poetry Day Committee, which was based in Florida, USA, in the early 1990s. It was generally celebrated in October, sometimes on the 5th, but in the latter part of the 20th Century the world community celebrated it on October 15, the birthday of Virgil, the Roman epic poet and poet laureate under Augustus. The tradition still holds in many countries. Alternately, a different October or even November date is celebrated.

ee also

* National Poetry Month, held in April in the United States and Canada
* International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, also on March 21st

External links

* [http://www.unesco.org/poetry UNESCO World Poetry Directory]


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