I’ve just learned that March 21 was been declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) as World Poetry Day in 1999. The purpose of the day is to promote the reading, writing, publishing and teaching of poetry throughout the world and, as the UNESCO session declaring the day says, to "give fresh recognition and impetus to national, regional and international poetry movements."
So we have double reasons for celebrating Norooz ;-)This year, UNESCO will pay tribute to Chilean poet and Nobel Literature Prize winner, Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)//portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=19254&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
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by yolanda on Sat Mar 13, 2010 05:48 PM PSTThank you for your blog.....UNESCO celebrated 800th anniversary of Rumi's birth in 2007:
//portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=34694&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
UNESCO also funded the translation of Rumi's poems. Yeah!
//www.unesco.org/culture/lit/rep/index.php?lng=en_GB&work_titre=&work_type%5B%5D=0&work_auteur=rumi&work_langue%5B%5D=0&work_zone%5B%5D=0&trans_titre=&trans_langue%5B%5D=0&trans_traducteur=&trans_coordination=&trans_editeur=&trans_annee=&trans_annee_apres=&trans_annee_avant=&send=Search