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March 21: World Poetry Day Celebrations 2019 Theme, Details, Aim, Significance
March 21: World Poetry Day Celebrations 2019 Theme, Details, Aim, Significance
World Poetry Day is celebrated every year on 21st March around the world to celebrate and promote the reading, writing, publishing, and teaching of poetry. It is also the occasion to honor poets, revive oral traditions of poetry recitals etc.
World Poetry Day was first introduced by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on 21st March during its 30th General Conference in Paris in 1999.
World Poetry Day was adopted with an aim to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for nearly extinct languages to be heard.
The UNESCO also aims to give novelty recognition and encouragement to national, regional and international poetry movements across the world on World Poetry Day.
On World Poetry Day, people in large numbers are believed to join the initiative on 21st March on several platforms such as social media, organizing poetry events on local-regional, national & international level etc.
