Issue “206” for April of “Million’s Poet” magazine, published by the “Poetry Academy” of the Abu Dhabi Heritage Authority, celebrated the conclusion of the eleventh season of the “Million Poet” program, through a number of polls, dialogues, and news contained within the pages. the magazine.
The issue included the crowning of His Highness Sheikh Nahyan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation, the Saudi poet Mohammed Al Madawi Al Wadaei, with the poetry banner in the eleventh season of the “Million Poet” program, in addition to the victory of Mohammed Al Sahli from The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Bayraq, the poet of the million, for children.
Among the dialogues that filled the pages of the magazine, we find a dialogue with Muhammad Al-Madawi Al-Wadaei in which he discussed his poetic career from the beginning, until he was crowned with the title, and a dialogue with the fifth place winner, Salah bin Dahi Al-Harbi, who talked about the factors that contributed to refining his talent, until he reached the podium, The issue also included interviews with poets: Hudhayfah Al-Hathalin, Ahmed Khalifa Al-Busaidi, and Ibrahim Abu Fayed Al-Sawarka.
In the polls, we learn the opinion of the jury and the “Million Poet” Advisory Committee about the eleventh season, what distinguished it, and the level of poets participating in it. We also read a poll about how the poetry audience views the eleventh season, and its social and literary impact, and in a third poll we read Opinions of poets who previously appeared in “Poet of a Million” about the possibility of repeating the initiative and participating again in the program.
In the “Poet’s Library” section, we find an expanded presentation of the book “The Collection of Emirati Poets in Poet of a Million from Seasons One to Five,” issued by the Academy of Poetry, which documents the journey of Emirati poets in competing for the title of “Poet of a Million” in the first seasons of the program, and reflects Their distinguished poetic experiences.
In the articles of the issue book, Khaled Al-Waghlani gave a reading of the poem “My Trump Card” by Hassan Shihab Al-Din, and Nevin Aziz Tineh discussed “The symbolism of the bat among the Arabs from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries,” and Kholoud Bennaser’s article was about “Poorness in Pre-Islamic Arabic Poetry.” Abdullah Abu Bakr shed light on the poet Iyad Al-Hakami, and Turki Al-Muraikhi spoke about the experience of the poet Prince Badr bin Abdul Mohsen.
In the “Facebook” corner, in this issue we get to know the page of the poet Nour Al-Mousili, while the “Tawasul” section selected distinguished poetic verses from a number of poets.
The issue opened with a speech titled “A glowing conclusion befitting poetry,” which came as a summary of the excellence and success of the eleventh season of “Million Poet,” and highlighted Abu Dhabi’s efforts to pay attention to Nabati poetry and harness media platforms for it.