World Poetry Day was proposed to Intl PEN by PEN Turkey Centre and - TopicsExpress



          

World Poetry Day was proposed to Intl PEN by PEN Turkey Centre and seconded by Melbourne PEN Centre, thanks to Judith Rodriguez. It was presented by Tarik Günersel at the 1997 Intl Congress in Edinburgh, accepted and then proposed to UNESCO, which also accepted it and placed it in the UNESCO calendar. It is in harmony with the spirit of PEN Intl that this day is celebrated in at least two languages -against ethnic chauvinism. World Poetry Day activities of PEN Turkey has always been multilingual.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:30:50 +0000

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