TEHRAN – The mausoleum of Hafez in Shiraz will be hosting the opening ceremony of the 6th edition of the International Revolution Poets Festival, which begins on December 27, 2016.

“25 prominent Iranian poets in addition to poets from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Kuwait, Azerbaijan and Pakistan are expected to attend the poetry night on the first day,” secretary of the festival Morteza Amiri-Esfandaqeh said in a press conference held at Tehran’s Art Bureau on Saturday.

“Shah Cheragh religious site in Shiraz will also be hosting a ceremony, in which the book ‘Silence, Full of Commotion’ compiled by Musa Bidaj and Faezeh Jamali will be introduced,” he said, adding that the book contains the latest poetry by the Arab poets on Islamic Awakening.

“In addition, three eminent poets Seyyed Mahmud Sajjadi, Qader Tahmasebi and the late Nasrollah Mardani will be honored during the two-day festival,” he remarked.

“In the early decades of the Islamic Revolution, the revolutionary poetry mostly focused on Islamic Awakening, while in later years, the situation in the Middle East made the poetry focus on more specific issues such as justice and humanity,” he explained.

About 900 works by 200 participants have been submitted to the secretariat, out of which 30 will find ways to the final stage of the competition, he concluded.

Mohammad-Ali Bahmani, Mohammad-Kazem Kazemi, Ali-Mohammad Moaddab, Mostafa Alipur, and Mohammadreza Abdolmalekian are among the jury members of different sections of Nimai, traditional and research. 

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