World poetry day 2023

• "A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world never the same once a good poem added. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone’s knowledge of himself and the world around him." – Dylan Thomas. • "Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful, you find coexistence; it breaks walls down." – Mahmoud Darwish. • "I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet, and I will die like a poet." – Bob Dylan • "Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks." – Plutarch

World Poetry Day 2023 Theme, Quotes, Images, Activities, Assembly, Logo, Date: Held every year on 21 March, World Poetry Day celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity. Practiced throughout history – in every culture and on every continent – poetry speaks to our common humanity and our shared values, transforming the simplest of poems into a powerful catalyst for dialogue and peace. UNESCO first adopted 21 March as World Poetry Day during its 30th General Conference in Paris in 1999, with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard. World Poetry Day is the occasion to honour poets, revive oral traditions of poetry recitals, promote the reading, writing and teaching of poetry, foster the convergence between poetry and other arts such as theatre, dance, music and painting, and raise the visibility of poetry in the media. As poetry continues to bring people together across continents, World Poetry Day is a time to appreciate and support poets and poetry around the world. It is held on March 21 each year and is an initiative of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). What Do People Do? Many people around the world celebrate World Poetry Day on or around March 21 each year. Government agencies, educators, community groups and individuals get involved in promoting or participating in the day...

National Poetry Month Launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month is a special occasion that celebrates poets’ integral role in our culture and that poetry matters. Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world, with tens of millions of readers, students, K–12 teachers, librarians, booksellers, literary events curators, publishers, families, and—of course—poets, marking poetry’s important place in our lives. In April 2023, U.S. Poet Laureate Thanks in part to our • Stay tuned for next year's official • Learn how to • Learn how to • Our annual, • Find poetry readings and events on our • Encourage students in grades five through twelve to participate in the • • Follow the thousands of celebrations taking place on social media with the official hashtag #NationalPoetryMonth and follow the Academy of American Poets on Twitter and Instagram • Share a #PocketPoem on • • Add the official National Poetry Month logo to your events:

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Watch again: Writing and Performance Poetry - Live Lesson Catch up with this interactive lesson first broadcast to celebrate National Poetry Day in 2018. The programme is presented by BBC Radio 1's Katie Thistleton and features award-winning performance poet, author and National Poetry Day ambassador Joseph Coelho and a special guest appearance from poet and author Tony Walsh. Inside the Writer's Mind Created in partnership with First Story, these short films for secondary schools offer insights into the ideation and creative writing processes of contemporary writers working across a number of genres. From playwrights to poets via children's authors and graphic novelists, each short film follows a real writer's journey – from how they find their inspiration and work with a stimulus, to how they edit and perform a written piece.

Every year on March 21, Poetry is believed to have originated thousands of years ago and has been kept alive through oral and written forms. There are numerous poetic forms that exist in the world with different structures across cultures. What are some different kinds of poetry? Below are just some of the most common forms of poetry. • Haiku: a three-line poem with a syllable count of five, then seven, then five. • Limerick: a humorous five-line poem. • Sonnet: a 14-line poem usually written in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme. • Villanelle: a 19-line poem consisting of five three-lined stanzas and a final quatrain. • Free verse: poetry without a set structure or rhyme scheme. • Ghazal: an Arabic and Persian form of poetry with a specific rhyming pattern. • Prose poetry: poetry written in prose form rather than verse. • Ode: a poem that celebrates a person, place, thing or event. • Sestina: a 39-line poem with six stanzas of six lines each and a three-line concluding stanza. • Epic: a long narrative poem. (Al Jazeera) Can AI generate poetry? Poetry is often considered one of the most artistic forms of human expression. With recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, Al Jazeera put ChatGPT uses natural language processing (NLP), an AI technology that can perform various tasks such as answering questions, summarising text and even generating lines of code. In order to train ChatGPT, large amounts of text data from articles, blogs, websites and other ...

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This Tuesday is World Poetry Day, and we are taking note of this day on NPR. May sound like a cliche that you turn on the news and your public radio station is talking about poetry, but in this case, the cliche is absolutely true. LEILA FADEL, HOST: And today we own it. In 1971, the very first year of NPR's All Things Considered, the show featured an anti-war poem. It was by the French poet Jacques Prevert. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Be forewarned, you old guys. Be forewarned, you heads of families. INSKEEP: I consider myself warned. In more recent times, MORNING EDITION has featured other poets. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) FRANNY CHOI: The world keeps ending, and the world goes on. INSKEEP: Franny Choi wrote of surviving calamities, as did Saeed Jones. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) SAEED JONES: But for now, we are alive at the end of the world. FADEL: Poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht has been thinking of the power of poetry. JENNIFER MICHAEL HECHT: Sometimes when we go to a culture we don't understand and we see something that looks like poetry, we call it religion or spirituality. FADEL: Hecht wrote a book about poetry called "The Wonder Paradox." HECHT: I think of it as gifts from the subconscious. And in some ways, if you want your subconscious to speak to you, you have to give it words that the subconscious can understand. INSKEEP: Gifts from the subconscious - that sounds like poetry. So ...

Indian literature exists from ancient times and its epics have stood the test of time. The Characteristic attribute that sets indian literature apart from the rest is its poetic diversity. Indian writers have been writing in English since a long time, and they are recognized the world over for their poetic skills and talent. Here is a list of those writers whose legacy has inspired the modern Indian writers and influenced a large number of urbane Indians to take a serious look at Indian English poetry. We need to remember them on the World Poetry day which is today, 21 March 2023. Toru Dutt or Tarulatha Dutt was an Indian poet born in the Bengal province in 1856 and she was born to a literary lineage. Her poems show her gripping curiosity about the natural world, excellent narrative abilities, her mythological leanings, and the fundamental reflections about human relationships. She also proved her mettle as a translator which really required mastery of two languages in their depth. Her sixteen poems were published posthumously and they were an enlightening medley of translations and original poetry. A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (1876) and Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (1882, published posthumously) were two of her famous works that touched the soul of her readers. 2. Mirabai Meerabai was a highly respected saint who took an active part in Bhakti Movement in the sixteenth century. Her love for Lord Krishna was phenomenal and inspired her to write poems on him...