Nat’l poetry festival begins today
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Published: 03:08, 1 February 2018
Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Staff Correspondent: A two-day long national poetry festival titled ‘Kobita Utshob’ begins today (Thursday) on the Dhaka University campus.
Jatiyo Kobita Parishad is organizing the 32nd version of the annual festival dedicating to late poet Sajjad Kadir who breathed his last on April 6, 2017.
Poet Belal Choudhury will inaugurate the festival while poetry council president Muhammad Samad will preside over the inauguration ceremony of the festival.
A total of 17 poets from nine countries will attend the programme while 300 local poets will also participate in the event with their poems.
The festival has been organised each year since 1989.
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