Poesia 21

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Date: 21.05.2021

Poesia 21 is a new approach to how we listen and read poetry, poets’ voices in multiple languages will sound equal throughout the day.

Poets all over the world are feeling a lack of true communication when we can hear and be together with each other no matter our ability to physically travel. In Poesia 21 we can find a technical way to change it and experience poetry’s ability to bring people together and give them hope in tumultuous times. To celebrate World Poetry Day we will be streaming poetry readings from 8 different hubs all over the world.

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Organized by:

Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Balmont Foundation
Moscow Poetry Biennale
Poets´s Circle Grecia

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