World Poetry Day
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World Poetry Day is on March 21, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999. The purpose of the day is to promote the reading, writing, publishing and teaching of poetry throughout the world and, as the UNESCO session declaring the day says, to "give fresh recognition and impetus to national, regional and international poetry movements."
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- National Poetry Month, held in April in the United States and Canada
- International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, also on March 21st
