Every year, the University and National Library of the University of Debrecen (DEENK) joins the Post a Poem movement on 11 April, i.e. the Day of Hungarian Poetry. For the eleventh time in a row, DEENK has drawn attention to the importance of poems, literature, poetry, and their significance across time and borders. This year, the essence of the collaboration was, as always, to encourage the reading of older or contemporary poems by involving the international student community of the University of Debrecen.
Foreign and Hungarian students wrote excerpts from their favourite poems on the glass walls, in two locations simultaneously for the first time in the history of the flashmob, namely in the Life and Natural Sciences Library and in the recently opened and considerably modernized Böszörményi Street Campus Library, which were perfectly suited to literary thoughts.
The students were invited to share their favourite quotes in Hungarian or English, and the foreign students were allowed to use their own mother languages. Not everyone wrote excerpts from poems on the glass walls, many shared simple and yet thought-provoking quotes and wisdom with passersby. The quotes included lines from Sándor Petőfi and János Arany, among others, and even a lyric excerpt from 30Y frontman Zoltán Beck.
In connection with the event, a special poetry workshop was held in the DEENK community space, A Sziget (The Island), where the attendees were introduced to the basics, rules and art of writing poetry. The workshop was held by poet Marcell Hocza-Szabó, a student at the Doctoral School of Literary and Cultural Studies of the University of Debrecen.
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