World Poetry Day

World Poetry Day is celebrated on 21 March. It was declared by UNESCO in 1999 “with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard”.

For more information about this celebration:

https://www.un.org/en/observances/world-poetry-day 

Resource. Reading and writing poetry: the recommendations of noted poets from many lands on the teaching of poetry in secondary schools 

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000139551 (Also available in Spanish and French)