• Everyday Of The Year Is World Poetry Day
Let me begin by thanking the Baoa International Poetry Forum for selecting me as co-winner of the 5th Baoa International Poetry Outstanding Achievement Award. From my own little corner of our world here in Nigeria, I send a resounding ‘Congratulation!’ to my fellow winner, Xu Jingya, whose poetry and other works I look forward to reading and sharing. In thus recognising us, the Baoa International Poetry Festival is not only honouring Poetry, Humanity’s most exalted literary genre; it is also for boosting its international outreach and capacity for building bridges and crossing boundaries.
For poetry is the soulmate of music, the sister of the song. It is Humanity’s long, immeasurable ballad with a stanza in every language. Its sounds may vary from language to language, but its sounding possesses the magic of memory that finds basic affinities in all tongues….
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