World Poetry Day2020: Chiedozie – Today I Had Sweet For Breakfast
By Guardian Exclusive
21 March 2020 |
10:44 am
Poetry reaffirms our common humanity by revealing to us that individuals everywhere in the world share the same feelings and questions. Today is World Poetry Day, it is a day to honour poets, revive oral traditions of poetry recitals, a day to promote reading and writing of poetry, a day to celebrate one of the most treasured forms of linguistic expression and identity.
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