Poetry

Young environmentalists are holding a sit-in in an endeavor to protect sea daffodils in danger of extinction in the southern province of Mersin.

If you think everybody leaves their town during summer holidays, you are wrong. Me and many people like me enjoy the holiday tranquility of the city. Holidays are not only times to rest and relax but also to nurture and renew.  

If you care about your brain - I would recommend you do - as much as you care about your body, do make a culture program for yourself. 

?The Call to Poetry,? a critically acclaimed international literary event, will stage a dramatic one-night celebration of the world?s oldest love poem on June 3 at Ankara?s Ruhi Bey Rock Bar with poetry read in Turkish and English.

The Excelsior Theatre House of Bucharest is inviting Bucharesters, May 29 - August 30, to a summer holiday with it, a project that provides outdoor stage plays, dance and music shows as well as film screenings, the theatre reports in a press release.

Poets, musicians and representatives of some of Europe's most prestigious poetry houses will convene Wednesday through Sunday in Bucharest for the Bucharest International Poetry Fair, the National Trade Fair of Poetry Books and the Poetry and Jazz Marathon, organised by the National Museum of Romanian Literature.

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A man has been injured in Sofia after a part of a baseboard of an underpass fell over him.

The incident occurred around 11.20 am Wednesday close to the Embassy of the Republic of Romania, located on ''M. Eminescu'' Boulevard in Sofia.

Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer, who won the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature, has died at the age of 83, his publishing house Bonniers said on March 27.
      
Transtroemer, who suffered a stroke in 1990 which affected his ability to speak, wrote poems full of imagery that addressed nature, history and death.
      

The decision to proclaim March 21 as World Poetry Day was adopted by Unesco in 1999, in recognition of the unique ability of this art form to capture the creative spirit of the human mind.

Communicating the innermost values of diverse cultures, poetry proves that people everywhere in the world share the same feelings and thoughts.

BELGRADE - The Belgrade Irish Festival (BIF) under the slogan 'BEO-GRAD, ZELENI-GRAD' will be held at several locations in Belgrade from March 13 to 22.

The star of this year's festival, the third in a row, is Irish singer and composer Lisa Hannigan who will perform in the Belgrade Youth Centre on March 21.

Belgrade Irish Festival to be held March 13-22

BELGRADE -- The Belgrade Irish Festival (BIF) will be held at several locations from March 13 until March 22, the event's organizers have announced.

The event's slogan, "Beo-grad, Zeleni-grad" ("White-City, Green-City"), refers to the capital's name in Serbian (Beograd).