As I found out a couple of days ago, March 21, 2014 was World Poetry Day. I learned about this from a Julius Meinl commercial on the Yahoo signup page. There was a map of Bucharest with pins indicating locations of Julius Meinl cafés in Bucharest, and the message that on World Poetry Day, Julius Meinl offers people a cup of coffee in exchange for a poem. I quickly identified a café I could easily get to, and before I headed out the door to meet a friend for an exhibition of Romanian comic strips I quickly pulled an Emily Dickinson poem off the Internet.
My friend wrote her own poem, a poem for kids based on a story she’s working on. We were provided with napkins for the purpose. And yes, the coffee was delicious, as one would expect from Julius Meinl. The café was also very pleasant: airy and with understated character – well, except one window that had been hit by a flying stone.
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Coffee may even hurry the muse :) Thank you for stopping by, Shraddha!
I can see the obvious - the relationship of coffee and the poetry. I like them both, there is nothing better than reading poetry with a cup of hot coffee on a cold winter evening.
Yes, you have a point there. Next time I'll try to be even more in the moment and think of a cappuccino- and friendship-inspired poem. Or something :-)
Oh, I do like the way the coffee shop celebrated World Poetry Day! I would have been like your friend and would have written my own poem for my cappuccino.
:-) Apparently the Julius Meinl Poetry Day covered 150 locations across the country. Quite exciting! But no one wrote about the outcome of this initiative. They did publicize it, though, and said they aimed at 15,000 poems. I suspect that was a total figure for several countries. I do wonder how many people thought of coffee and poetry in Romania on March 21 :). Apparently the slogan was "Poetry Can Make the World a Better Place." Indeed :)
That's good to hear (that you're working on republishing it, or at least plan to do it in the near future). Nope, my poems aren't available either, at least not the recent ones which I'm happy with these days. I'm submitting them here and there though, and am still hoping that one day soon . . . :)
I do love poetry, but missed the day. I'll hold my own belated Poetry Day instead!
Mira, My poetry is currently unavailable. Republishing is on my huge to-do list.
Is your poetry available?
:) Thank you, Violette, for stopping by!
I didn't know about world poetry day, glad you had a great time :)