World Poetry Day is celebrated annually on March 21 worldwide to honor poets and bring back the practice of poetry readings. The main aim of this international day is to encourage linguistic diversity through poetry and enhance the visibility of endangered languages across the world. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) founded World Poetry Day in the year 1999 in Paris to honor the sole capability of poetry to capture the creative spirit of the human beings mind.

Poetry is a creative form, which provides writers or poets with their deep feelings, hopes, and life experiences in the form of poems. It is one of the great tools that the poet may provide resistance to oppression and help as a mirror to society Poetry is also a type of artistic writing or literature, which tries to the reader’s imagination, feelings, and emotions through a variety of several poetic techniques.

 Earlier, writers also used poetry to condemn the policies of governments in the form of poems worldwide. The main purpose of this international day is to revive the art of poetry and writing poetry and to honor great poets across the world