2010 World Poetry Day 2010: "The Words of Nature, the Nature of Words"

Poetry Reading by Irene Sheri

World Poetry Day is on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) 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. (from Wikipedia).

Doubling as International Year of Biodiversity and of the Rapprochement of Cultures, 2010 celebrates two essential facets of diversity: the heritage which is key to human life on Earth. From their distinctive perspectives, poetry and science embody humanity’s noblest quest: that which UNESCO’s Constitution identifies as "the unrestricted pursuit of truth". It is in this spirit that World Poetry Day (21 March) is observed at UNESCO through an afternoon devoted to the poetic vision of nature (Unesco).