Title: World Poetry Day
Readers: Jasper Adams, Ron Bobb-Semple, Francis Q. Farrier, Stanley Greaves etc
Date: Sunday 21st March 2021
Time: 5.00 PM Guyana
Birthed a couple of decades ago by UNESCO, World Poetry Day aims to encourage oral traditions and to celebrate the creative spirit of the human mind. Our poets and readers enjoyed considerable freedom in their selections. Poems came from a cross-section of communities, spaces, voices. Some spanned the region (Saint Martin, Jamaica, Peru). Others are staples of our canon such as the late Ivan Forrester’s peerless A Voice from Cuffy’s Grave and John Agard’s Checking out me history. Half were penned by emerging or established Guyanese poets. Themes ranged from historical misdeeds to personal loss. Readers included Francis Quamina Farrier, Stanley Greaves and Lloyd Marshall.
Maya Angelou: Still I Rise (read by Olinda Cadogan)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/OSKS4NeUl4s
Grace Bhola: How Do I Love Thee? (composed and read by Grace Bhola)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ft7EHbMwnGI
Olinda Cadogan: Time (composed and read by Olinda Cadogan)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/HUD22Ng-KLY
Fred D’Aguiar: Letter from Mama Dot (read by Joan Seymour)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/hsGPXEX8cNo