Moonstone Presents:

  • World Poetry Day Virtual Event

    Spring 2026 Anthologies Extended- Submit Now World Poetry Day  World Poetry Day is celebrated on March 21st, and was declared by UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) in 1999, ”with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard”. Its purpose is […]

  • National Haiku Poetry Day – Virtual Event

    National Haiku Poetry Day  National Haiku Day, an initiative of the Haiku Foundation, celebrates the art form every April 17th. A haiku is an ancient form of Japanese poetry that consists of three lines with the sentence structure ”five-seven-five”- although this is contested for being a western way of teaching the haiku. Japanese haikus also […]