(VOVworld) - Vietnam’s 15^th Poetry Day opened in Hanoi’s Temple of Literature on Saturday. Deputy Chief of the Party Commission for Communications and Education, Bui The Duc, beat the drum to launch the festival.

The annual event included various activities such as exchanges between poets, the “Way of poets” presenting works of popular poets, the “Vietnamese children’s poetry space”, poetry readings, recitations, and art performances. A member of the organizing board, poet Nguyen Viet Chien: “The 15^th Vietnam Poetry Day celebrates the 60^th anniversary of Vietnam Writers’ Association. We have examples of poems written by the anti-American war generation, by poets in the renewal time and latest poets. They share the voice of honoring poems and patriotism, as seen in topics about the East Sea, Truong Sa and border areas where our soldiers are defending the national sovereignty.”

The Poetry Day takes place in Ho Chi Minh City the same day with a dozen of poets clubs and camps open in the city. Poet Xuan Truong from the city’s Literature Club: “The event helps the public to think more about poems as part of national spring festivals. It’s time to slow down our life and better explore the art.”

Started on the 15^th day of the first lunar month in 2003, the Vietnam Poetry Day has become a biggest poetry festival in the country.