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Poet laureate programme
Description of the policy/measure
The poet laureate programme promotes poetry writing and facilitates greater awareness of poetry to a wider jamaican audience.
2005 Convention Monitoring Framework Goal(s)
Area(s) of Monitoring
Cultural Domain(s)
Transversal Priority(ies)
Results achieved
As a result of this measure the programme now facilitates the following: 1. school poetry reading tours. 2. annual poetry competition prizes. 3. 'all flowers are roses', which is a poetry writing and self defense series for girls. 4. world poetry day in jamaica is celebrated. 5. jamaican poetry index
Financial resources allocated to the policy
Funded from the annual budget of the nlj wiht a budget of us15,000.00