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Mayor participates in a steady course in the Plaza de Santa Catalina, Penalver Soren with texts and their favorite authors.

For fourteen hours, read excerpts from Homer, Virgil, Dante, Garcilaso, Fray Luis de León, San Juan de la Cruz and Charles Baudelaire.

The Mayor, Miguel Angel House, has celebrated this morning the World Poetry Day at the Museo Ramón Gaya, on the initiative of a reading activity continued in the Plaza de Santa Catalina.

For the premiere of this activity has picked the continued reading of poems and texts by Soren Peñalver and their favorite poets.

From 10 am to 12 pm, all who wish may contribute to this tribute to the poetry, participating in the reading of poems and fragments of texts on poetry.

Among the favorite writers Soren Peñalver and whose works are read today include Homer, Virgil, Dante, Garcilaso de la Vega, Fray Luis de León, San Juan de la Cruz, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Claudel, Konstantinos Cavafy, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Fernando Pessoa, Rabindranath Tagore, Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, Miguel Hernandez, Luis Cernuda ...

Unesco chose March 21 as World Poetry Day, to "encourage support for poets, back to the enchantment of orality and re-establish dialogue between poetry and other arts" as well as make "poetic art is not considered an art fallen into disuse, but a tool that enables society to regain and assert its identity."

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia