World Poetry Day today

March 21 is observed as World Poetry Day, each year. The date was settled upon in 1999, by UNESCO, at the 30th General Conference in Paris, where the need to support poetic expression across languages, particularly those that are endangered, was stressed upon.

To this day, March 21 is celebrated as World Poetry Day to honour the poets. If we want to celebrate World Poetry Day, all of us should read poems of well-known poets.

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.

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.