{"id":80026,"date":"2021-05-27T13:40:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T08:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/?p=80026"},"modified":"2021-05-27T13:25:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T07:55:55","slug":"e-kerala-literature-festival-2021-kicks-off-on-28th-may-with-an-international-poetry-festival-cultural-minister-of-kerala-saji-cheriyan-to-inaugurate-poets-from-israel-palestine-lakshadweep-to-par","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/e-kerala-literature-festival-2021-kicks-off-on-28th-may-with-an-international-poetry-festival-cultural-minister-of-kerala-saji-cheriyan-to-inaugurate-poets-from-israel-palestine-lakshadweep-to-par\/","title":{"rendered":"e-Kerala Literature Festival 2021 kicks off on 28th May with an International Poetry Festival. Cultural Minister of Kerala Saji Cheriyan to inaugurate. Poets from Israel, Palestine, Lakshadweep to partake"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_80029\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80029\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-80029 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-25-at-17.21.37-1.jpeg\" alt=\"eKLF\" width=\"1280\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-25-at-17.21.37-1.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-25-at-17.21.37-1-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-25-at-17.21.37-1-768x401.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-05-25-at-17.21.37-1-600x314.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">eKLF 2021 kicks off on May 28, 10am onwards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>DC Kizhakemuri Foundation in association with DC Books will host the Kerala Literature Festival (e-KLF 2021) on 28<sup>th<\/sup> May with an International Poetry Festival. This year, KLF\u2019s digital edition of International Poetry Festival coincides with the 75<sup>th<\/sup> birthday of the Festival Director, Prof. K. Satchidanandan.<\/p>\n<p>With over 50 poets from more than nine countries, the International Poetry Festival will be inaugurated at 10 AM by the Cultural Minister of Kerala, Shri Saji Cheriyan. \u00a0Inaugural ceremony will be presided over by the Festival Chairman, A Pradeep Kumar, Chief Facilitator Ravi Deecee, General Convener Abdul Hakeem. To celebrate the world renowned poet\u2019s 75<sup>th<\/sup> birthday, the Festival is set to kick off with poems by Asma Azaizeh from Palestine and Ismath Hussain from Lakshadweep. The Festival runs all through the day till 7:30 PM.<\/p>\n<p>With over 50 poets from more than 10 countries like Palestine, Israel, South Africa, Italy, United States of America, Ireland, to name a few, the roster boasts the presence of renowned \u00a0poets like Salma, \u00a0Chandrakanth Patil, Kutti Revathi, Nishi Chowla, Balachandran Chullikadu, K G \u00a0Shankarapilla, \u00a0Taslima Nasrin, P P Ramachandran, Rafeek Ahmed etc. The International Poetry Festival on May 28<sup>th<\/sup> is just the beginning of a series of programs that will continue to lead up to the eventual physical event at the beaches of Kozhikode in January 2022. For people who have not attended the Festival all these years, the digital face of KLF will make for an exciting opportunity to feel the essence and flavor of the biggest \u00a0bilingual literature festival in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>The Poetry Festival can be viewed from the DC Books\u2019 official Facebook and Youtube pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; DC Kizhakemuri Foundation in association with DC Books will host the Kerala Literature Festival (e-KLF 2021) on 28th May with an International Poetry Festival. This year, KLF\u2019s digital edition of International Poetry Festival coincides with the 75th birthday of the Festival Director, Prof. K. Satchidanandan. With over 50 poets from more than nine countries, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":80029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2171],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80033,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80026\/revisions\/80033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}