Vietnam Poetry Day 2017 marked in many localities
Hanoi (VNA) – 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.
In HCM City, on
February 11 night, the day was marked with many exciting activities like a playground
for young poets, reading poems, drawing portraits of poets.
The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho also held a poetry night at the Binh Thuy
communal house in celebration of the Vietnam Poetry Day.
Themed “Homeland
and Spring”, the event brought together nearly 70 poets, poet readers, and
artists.
The Can Tho
Nguyen Tieu poetry night also saw the first-ever space for child poets, helping
young poets to exchange ideas with veteran ones.
The same day, the
central province of Phu Yen also organised a poetry festival which attracted
380 poems from 184 poets in and outside the locality.-VNA