At its 30th session held in Paris in October-November 1999, UNESCO designated March 21 as "World Poetry Day". All countries have been invited to join in the worldwide celebrations on that date. Accordingly, the Center for Turkish Literature at Bilkent University will cooperate with the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO to celebrate the inaugural "World Poetry Day" in Ankara.
The Center for Turkish Literature is organizing multi-lingual readings of poetry from a variety of continents. Poems in English, French, German, Persian, Arabic, Irish, Norwegian, Japanese, and other languages, in addition to Turkish, will be read.
The event will take place at FEASS, C Block Auditorium, at 8 p.m. For further information, contact
E. Funda Nesliošlu at ext. 2317 or e-mail temerkez@bilkent.edu.tr.
