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World Poetry Day

Date: March 21, 2027

Time zone: Europe/Vilnius

Organizer: UNESCO

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21 March is World Poetry Day, celebrated by UNESCO to promote poetry as a form of cultural and linguistic expression. Established in 1999, the day recognises poets, supports linguistic diversity, encourages the preservation of oral traditions and promotes the reading, writing and teaching of poetry.

For VolyaLive, World Poetry Day is an opportunity to explore the lives and works of poets whose voices crossed borders and generations. Lithuanian poet and translator Juozas Kėkštas represents this cultural exchange through his poetry and translations of Polish, Spanish and Italian literature into Lithuanian.

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