Festival Poetry Calabar 2019

This is another time of the year we have all being anticipating.💃💃 Festival Poetry Calabar is here again.😍 Do you understand what it means to have a festival just for poetry? A place where everyone is free to speak and alllow their voices to be heard? Those itchy thoughts scribbled in papers and pasted on walls of the media platform? We want to hear all of it.. You just have to show up😊

This year's theme is tagged "Poets in the Digital Age: Bytes and Heights" 
Poetry have lived on hearts and papers for so long. As a result of technology and innovation, the creation of social media was birthed. Now poetry has new homes on the digital space. The space were we can all learn from each other and concur to our experiences and thoughts. 
 "Nigerian Digital Poetry is a Literary art form erected on the superstructure of traditional oral poetry and appropriate indigenous aesthetics in symbiotic relationship with the global in the synergized digital platforms" - Peter Onyekachi Onuoha.

So let's come together to learn, have fun and make memories with poetry in the Digital Age.
The countdown has started!!
29 DAYS LEFT🤯 
~18th and 19th December, 2019
James Ene Henshaw Foundation, beside Transcorp Hotel, Highway, Calabar.
~20th December, 2019
Transcorp Hotel, Highway, Calabar.

You've got to register to be there.
Just register @ www.festivalpoetry.com
See you there😊