In more than 30 countries of the world people will be able to pay for their coffee or tea with a verse. In Slovenia 49 coffee shops will join the campaign the purpose of which is to inspire people's creativity.
In this year's missive Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, said that poetry contributes to the expansion of our common humanity, helping to increase its strength, solidarity and self-awareness, and helps to promote linguistic diversity and freedom of expression. In the age of automation and the immediacy of modern life, poetry also opens a space for the freedom and adventure inherent in human dignity.
Bokova also wrote that each culture has its poetic art that it uses to transmit knowledge, socio-cultural values and collective memory, which strengthen mutual respect, social cohesion and the search for peace
A poetry evening and a poetic marathon
Among the events marking the World Poetry Day poetry reading will be organized at Pritličje, Mestni trg square 2, at which more than 50 poets of all generations will be reading their poems, including Boris A. Novak, Feri Lainšček and Andrej Rozman - Roza, while an all-night reading, i.e. a poetry reading marathon will take place at Menza pri koritu.