Celebrate World Poetry Day.
If this quarantine is serving something, it's for appreciate the little details , to value everything that we had forgotten in a drawer, to resume pending reading … To connect with our neighbors, with family and friends from the heart. And she knows a lot about that. poetry that stirs feelings and allows us to emerge from the paper or out loud.
Since 1998, Every March 21 we celebrate World Poetry Day . Surely this** March 21, 2020** will go down in history as the day that most verses were recited from home and, perhaps for the first time, from digital platforms. There is no reason not to celebrate it. You join?
These are some of the initiatives with which we woke up this Saturday.
It is a good time to recite.
WE CELEBRATE THE BÉCQUER YEAR FROM SEVILLE
This Saturday, in addition to World Poetry Day, we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the death of the writer Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and his brother, the painter Valerian Becquer , with a continuous virtual reading.
This initiative launched by the Seville City Council wants you to join reading your favorite Becquer verses from home. They will be in charge of sharing them on the networks.
How can you participate? Very simple, you just have to record a video reciting his poems and adding the hashtags #International poetry day and **#AtHomeWithBécquer **.
PERFOPOESIA, THE FESTIVAL TO RECITE POEMS AND SONGS
The Institute of Culture and Arts of Seville (ICAS) has created an initiative on social networks to celebrate this day, since due to the health crisis the event had to be cancelled. Perphopoetry , the International Poetry Festival, scheduled for March 17 and 22.
To participate you just have to upload a video reciting or singing song lyrics that inspire you with the hashtags #perfopoetry Y #WorldPoetryDay . Seville City Council will share the poems through its networks and will also create a summary video with the best of the day.
DAY OF CANARY ARTS WITH JOSEFINA DE LA TORRE
Josefina de la Torre Millares , born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, was a Spanish poet, novelist, opera singer and actress linked to the Generation of 27 . This year for the Canary Letters Day All her work is commemorated, so what better than reading one of her poems on World Poetry Day.
The Vice Ministry of Culture of the Government of the Canary Islands has organized an initiative for all those who want to participate. How? Choose one of Josefina de la Torre's verses here, record it and share it wherever you want (Instagram, Twitter or Facebook), as long as they are open networks with the hashtag #JosefinaFest.
#POETRYENTUSOFA
More than 30 artists from all disciplines join World Poetry Day with a ** poetry reading from home **. This festival will be held from today until tomorrow via Instagram . Poets such as Elvira Sastre, Andrea Valbuena and Fran Barreno by Colombia and Ecuador.
These will be some of the participants: Inma Cuesta, Andrés Suárez, Anna Castillo, Benjamín Prado, Irene Escolar, Ismael Serrano, Marwan and Samir, Miguel Poveda, Leticia Dolera, Nadia de Santiago or Nuria Gago, among others. **You can participate as a listener or share your favorite poems. **
**SEND YOUR POEM**
The Reus Reading Center (Tarragona) will also celebrate World Poetry Day virtually. This year the figure of the writer Josep Carner and his poem *** A l'hora foscant *** (At dusk) are commemorated.
Through the Instagram account of Catalan Letters they are compiling some of the poems that readers have been sending. You can also do the same: send the title and the author's name to [email protected].
EMERGENCY POETRY
In ** Emergency Poetry ** these days of confinement are not enough. Thousands of calls cry out for a few verses to calm the anxiety generated by uncertainty and being enclosed within four walls. For this reason, this March 21 could not be less. What can you do?
**They propose a challenge: **
1.Record yourself reciting a poem of less than a minute with your phone to your ear (as if you had received a call).
2.Use the hashtags #diadelapoesia #poesiademergencia
3.Tag them to share your video on our profiles: Instagram: @poesiademergencia Facebook: @poesiadeemerge1 Twitter: @poesiadeemerge1
**POETRY ON INSTAGRAM LIVE**
From the Aguilar publishing house they have launched the initiative Free Verses. The authors of Verso&I count on you with which they intend to bring poetry to all houses.
Until next April 5, every afternoon at 7:00 p.m., the authors of the collection Verse&Story of Aguilar They will bring poems, lyrics and songs to their followers through Instagram Live.