News | PIN To Mark 2-Year Anniversary With Special Poetry Reading Sessions
In recognition of the role of poetry as
an effective tool of liberation of societies, the Poets In Nigeria (PIN)
organisation has planned to celebrate its two years of existence alongside
Nigeria’s Independence anniversary in October 2017 with Special Poetry Reading
Sessions across the country.
The President of Poets In Nigeria (PIN), Mr. Eriata Oribhabor observed that Literary creativity is a potent tool for the realization of both individual and collective freedom. Adding that poetry has always been used as fierce tool in the fight for human rights, dignity and freedom which PIN intends to project all through the month of October.
Mr. Eriata Oribhabor, PIN President. |
While declaring October 2017 as a month of Freedom and
Creativity, PIN says special poetry reading sessions would hold throughout
October in Abakaliki , Akwanga, Badagry, Calabar, and Gombe.
Other locations of the special poetry readings are Enugu, Epe,
Kano, Makurdi, Obalende, Ojo, Port-Harcourt, University of Ibadan and Yaba,
Lagos.
PIN’s two-year anniversary coincides with the
anniversary of Nigeria’s independence and Organizers have
noted that in acknowledgement of the importance of Nigeria’s Independence
anniversary, PIN would hold special poetry readings in to celebrate the power
of poetry in creating “socio-cultural consciousness, upholding human rights and
freedom”.
Available information from the PIN website shows that
200 top entrants of both 2016 and 2017 editions of the Nigerian Students’
Poetry Prize (NSPP) would also be celebrated during the event, and this will serve
as a makeup for exceptional entrants who were not able to attend the previous awards
ceremony in University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus where Certificates were awarded.
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