Vietnam Poetry Day 2018 to feature various activities
The 16th Vietnam Poetry Day is scheduled to take place from February 27 to March 2 in Hanoi with a wide range of activities, said poet Huu Thinh, Chairman of the Vietnam Writers Association.
The 15th Vietnam Poetry Day at Van Mieu - Quoc Tu Giam (Photo VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The 16th VietnamPoetry Day is scheduled to take place from February 27 to March 2 in Hanoi witha wide range of activities, said poet Huu Thinh, Chairman of the VietnamWriters Association.
Themed “Literature accompanying the nation”, theevent will begin with a workshop featuring Vietnam’s current poetic issues onFebruary 27, followed by another seminar on fiction reform on February 28 inresponse to the novel contest in 2017-2020 launched by the association.
Poetry contests and art performances will takeplace on March 1 at Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam (Temple of Literature).
The 16th Vietnam Poetry Day will officially kickoff on March 2, the 15th day of the first lunar month, at Van Mieu – Quoc TuGiam.
This year’s event will welcome four members fromJapan’s poets association to exchange with Vietnamese poetry lovers.
Additionally, a special space will be designedfor children.
Poet Huu Thinh said the organising board has selected‘sail’ as a symbol of this year’s event.
A photo exhibition onVietnamese writers who participated in the General Offensive and Uprising inthe Spring of 1968 will be held on the margin of the event.
Such activities are important steps to turn theVietnam Poetry Day into the Vietnam Literature Day, Thinh added.
Since its debut on NguyenTieu (the 15th day of the first lunar month) in 2003, the Vietnam Poetry Day,the biggest poetry festival in the country, has become a national tradition,taking place in the spring of each year.
Starting out as an initiative of the VietnamWriters' Association, the Poetry Day has been organised in many provinces andcities to honour poetry, which has been an integral part of Vietnamese culturefor thousands of years.-VNA
The annual Vietnamese Poetry Day will be organised as a festival with myriad activities, said Huu Thinh, President of the Vietnam Writers’ Association, on February 19.
The Vietnam Poetry Day 2017, the 15th edition, will be held in Hanoi on February 11 or the 15th day of the first lunar month of the New Year (Nguyen Tieu festival), with a special space designed for children’s poet clubs.
Vietnam Poetry Day, the 15th of its kind, opened at the Temple of Literature in Hanoi on February 11 (the 15th day of the first Lunar month), providing a platform for poets to meet poem lovers.
Dozens of young poets will present their works at universities and colleges around HCM City on the night of February 11 as part of the opening ceremony for Vietnam Poetry Day held on the 15th day of the first lunar month.
Many localities nationwide have held a wide range of activities in response to the 15th Vietnam Poetry Day 2017, which opened at the Temple of Literature in Hanoi on February 11 or the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
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The 15th Vietnam Poetry Day at Van Mieu - Quoc Tu Giam (Photo VNA) 
