Poets from around the world will assemble in Dhaka on Friday evening and start their 'peace procession' towards Cox's Bazar the next day to protest communal frenzy and violence across the globe with the 'beauty of poetry'.
The four-day event organised by a Bangladesh-based global poetry forum, Kabitabangla, will feature lectures, poetry recital and oath-taking before ending at pre-dominantly Buddhist village Ramu, which was recently ravaged by religious zealots.
At least 40 poets from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Ecuador, Mexico, and the USA will join nearly 150 Bangladeshi poets in the annual gathering styled 'Darianagar Poetryfair 2012'.
People in Cox's Bazar call the largest sandy sea beach as 'Daria', on the bank of which the city, Nagar, was built.
The event scheduled to kick off with a press conference on Friday followed by a series of lectures on the recent trends of world poetry on the premises of bdnews24.com, the co-sponsor of the poetry fair, along with ADN Telecom and Monsoon Letters.
The peace march towards Cox's Bazar will start on Saturday after paying tributes to language martyrs by placing wreaths at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka and laying floral wreaths at the graveyard of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.
"On way to Cox's Bazar, we will stop at those places where communal harmony was recently destroyed," said poet Mohammad Nurul Huda, Chairman of Kabitabangla.
"We will pray for peace and prosperity through our recitals," he told bdnews24.com on the eve of the only global event of its kind in Bangladesh, which was first organised in 2010.
He said the gatherings would send across the messages of 'poetry for human beauty and poetry for peace.'
"Poets cannot engage themselves in conflicts ... we can pray for peace. We will fight violence with the beauty of poetry," Huda said.
"Poets create beauty and speak of human kind. Their (poets) religion is the religion of humanity."
He said this year's declaration at the end of the event would be dedicated to the ravaged Ramu Buddist community.
"We will read out our Ramu declaration in front of the charred temples," he said.
The Kabitabangla started its journey in Bangladesh in 2000. Since then, they sit and discuss poetry every alternate Saturday, said the Chairman.
The four-day event organised by a Bangladesh-based global poetry forum, Kabitabangla, will feature lectures, poetry recital and oath-taking before ending at pre-dominantly Buddhist village Ramu, which was recently ravaged by religious zealots.
At least 40 poets from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Ecuador, Mexico, and the USA will join nearly 150 Bangladeshi poets in the annual gathering styled 'Darianagar Poetryfair 2012'.
People in Cox's Bazar call the largest sandy sea beach as 'Daria', on the bank of which the city, Nagar, was built.
The event scheduled to kick off with a press conference on Friday followed by a series of lectures on the recent trends of world poetry on the premises of bdnews24.com, the co-sponsor of the poetry fair, along with ADN Telecom and Monsoon Letters.
The peace march towards Cox's Bazar will start on Saturday after paying tributes to language martyrs by placing wreaths at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka and laying floral wreaths at the graveyard of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.
"On way to Cox's Bazar, we will stop at those places where communal harmony was recently destroyed," said poet Mohammad Nurul Huda, Chairman of Kabitabangla.
"We will pray for peace and prosperity through our recitals," he told bdnews24.com on the eve of the only global event of its kind in Bangladesh, which was first organised in 2010.
He said the gatherings would send across the messages of 'poetry for human beauty and poetry for peace.'
"Poets cannot engage themselves in conflicts ... we can pray for peace. We will fight violence with the beauty of poetry," Huda said.
"Poets create beauty and speak of human kind. Their (poets) religion is the religion of humanity."
He said this year's declaration at the end of the event would be dedicated to the ravaged Ramu Buddist community.
"We will read out our Ramu declaration in front of the charred temples," he said.
The Kabitabangla started its journey in Bangladesh in 2000. Since then, they sit and discuss poetry every alternate Saturday, said the Chairman.
Source: bdnews24
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