April is National Poetry Month and April 22nd is Earth Day. To mark these occasions, on April 22, 2021, Saint Paul Almanac partnered with Next Chapter Booksellers and Emcee/Poet Sagirah Shahid to present our virtual Global Poetry Celebration.

The event included 24 readers who read poems in 21 languages: Albanian, Arabic, Bahasa Malaysia, Bangla, Chinese, Dakota, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese, Oromo, Punjabi, Sicilian, Sindhi, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Ukrainian, Urdu, and Yiddish. It was a spectacular evening!

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