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The Literature and Art Association of the Central Highland Province of Dak Lak in coordination with the Provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism held a ceremony on February 15 (the 15th day of the first lunar month) to mark the 20th Vietnam Poetry Day. |
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With the theme “Hay song va hy vong” (Let’s Live and Hope), the annual event has been resumed after two years of suspension due to the COVID-19 epidemic. The poets’ works featured topics about country, life, love and Spring. During the event, the Provincial Literature and Art Association also organised a display of hundreds of paintings and pictures by artists and painters in the province and hundreds of books of all kinds, in order to serve the need to enjoy culture and art as well as encourage and improve the reading culture for people in the province. A similar event was also held in northern province of Thai Binh on February 15 to celebrate the 20th Vietnam Poetry Day. Since its debut on Nguyen Tieu (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 Vietnam Writers’ Association, the Poetry Day has been organised in many provinces and cities to honour poetry, which has been an integral part of Vietnamese culture for thousands of years. Source: Nhan Dan Online |
