• World Poetry Day is celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999,...
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    National Poetry Day is a British campaign to promote poetry, including public performances. Annually, on the first Thursday of October, events, readings...
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    may see errors in display. Manipuri poetry day (Meitei: Manipuri Sheirenggi Numit), also known as Meitei Poetry Day, is an annual literary event organised...
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    Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings...
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  • Day 21 March - World Poetry Day International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination International Day of Nowruz 22 March - World Water Day...
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    National Poetry Slam (NPS), the individual World Poetry Slam (iWPS), and the Women of the World Poetry Slam (WoWPS). The last National Poetry Slam took...
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  • taught poetry at Oxford, where he was Professor of Poetry from 1951 to 1956. During 1962–1963, he was the Norton Professor at Harvard University. Day-Lewis...
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  • World Poetry Slam (WoWPS) (since 2021 known as Womxn of the World Poetry Slam) is an annual international poetry competition and festival. The poetry...
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  • observance) World Poetry Day (International observance) World Puppetry Day (International observance) Youth Day (Tunisia) March 22 Emancipation Day (Puerto...
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  • 21 to be World Poetry Day. The purpose of the day is to promote the reading, writing, publishing and teaching of poetry throughout the world and, as the...
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  • Poetry Evenings World Poetry Day — UNESCO official portal Celebration of World Poetry Day — UNESCO official portal Struga Poetry Evenings Festival — UNESCO...
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    War poetry is poetry on the topic of war. While the term is applied especially to works of the First World War, the term can be applied to poetry about...
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    Simon Armitage (category Oxford Professors of Poetry)
    locomotive Flying Scotsman, which entered service on 24 February 1923. On World Poetry Day, 21 March 2023, he released his "Plum Tree Among the Skyscrapers",...
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    29 October 2020. Brara, Noor (21 March 2018). "9 Poets to Know for World Poetry Day". Vogue. Condé Nast. Retrieved 29 October 2020. Ravindranathan, Shreeja...
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  • Power Distribution, an electricity distributor in the UK World Poetry Day World Prematurity Day .wpd, a file name extension for WordPerfect word processing...
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    A Burns supper is a celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), the author of many Scots poems. The suppers...
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    known to have had any romantic connotations until Chaucer's poetry about "Valentine's Day" in the 14th century, some seven hundred years after celebration...
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    Retrieved 30 March 2023. "World Day of the Olive Tree". International Olive Council. Retrieved 30 March 2023. "World Futures Day". UNESCO. Retrieved 30 March...
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    newspapers of the Gulf region and across the Arab world. King Abdulaziz Medal, 2019 UNESCO World Poetry Day, 2019 Personality of the Year, Kuwait, 2023 All...
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  • British poetry is the field of British literature encompassing poetry from anywhere in the British world (whether of the British Isles, the British Empire...
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    An Apology for Poetry (or The Defence of Poesy) is a work of literary criticism by Elizabethan poet Philip Sidney. It was written in approximately 1580...
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    Poetry as an oral art form likely predates written text. The earliest poetry is believed to have been recited or sung, employed as a way of remembering...
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    World Humanist Day is a Humanist holiday celebrated annually around the world on the June solstice, which usually falls on June 21. According to Humanists...
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    in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in...
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  • in his essay Poetry and Sincerity that "Modernity has been going on for a long time. Not within living memory has there ever been a day when young writers...
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    Poetry of the modern-day region called Afghanistan has ancient roots, which is mostly written in Dari and Pashto. Afghan poetry relates to the culture...
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    the World's Languages in Danger The Linguists (documentary film) Indigenous language Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights World Poetry Day "What...
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    Retrieved 28 January 2018. "Sir Daniel Day-Lewis is to be the new Honorary President of the Poetry Archive". The Poetry Archive. Retrieved 21 October 2015...
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  • Segal Al Rikabi (category Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers)
    (20 March 2019). Baghdad city of Literature-UNESCO — World Poetry Day — A Celebration of Women Poetry. Baghdad City of Literature. Event occurs at 156s....
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    Mormon poetry (or Latter Day Saint poetry) is poetry written by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) about spiritual...
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