(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The 15th Night is the title of a book about the meeting of a number of Iranian poets with the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during Ramadan last year. The work gives readers a review of the leaders views on poetry and literature.The 15th Night has been published jointly by the Islamic Revolution Research Institute and the Office for Preservation and Publication of Ayatollah Khameneis Works, IBNA reported.Last year, in the evening before Ramadan 15th, a number of poets from around the country met with the leader in an intimate circle.In the meeting, some veteran and emerging poets recited their poetry pieces. Some of them were Yousofali Mir Shakak, Alireza Ghazveh, Dr Gholamali Hadad Adel, Mohammad Javad Mohabat, Amiri Esfandgheh, Mojgan Abaslou, Moshfegh Kashani, Ali Moalem, Saeid Biabanaki and Ali Ensani.The book contains the full text of all the poetry pieces recited during the session. Also the speeches the poets gave before their presentations including Alireza Ghazvehs, who served as the sessions host, make up another part of the books contents.Another portion of the book deals with the leaders statements about poetry and poets duties."I am evidently witnessing a massive growth in the revolution poetry," says the leader in a part of his speech in the ceremony, "today, poetry of the Islamic Revolution has honorably progressed in comparison to than ten years or 15 years earlier."The book concludes with a brief biography of the poets who had presentations at the ceremony.A part of the introduction the book reads as follows: "Ayatollah Khamenei, since the first year of his leadership, has spend the evening before Ramadan 15th with dedicated and committed Revolutionary poets. Since then, poets have rehearsed parts of their pieces in the meeting and the leader has briefly reminded them of some notes... ."... the pieces included in the present volume manifest the level of poetry in the present era. Moreover, they attribute to the poets ideological directions," reads another part of the books introduction.The volume is printed in 120 pages and is accompanied by the CD of the meeting./129
15 August 2011 - 19:30
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The 15th Night is the title of a book about the meeting of a number of Iranian poets with the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during Ramadan last year. The work gives readers a review of the leaders views on poetry and literature.
