You are cordially invited to The Light Millennium Global – LMGlobal.Org’s Annual Meeting and 21st Anniversary Celebration dedicated to on:

GLOBAL PEACE & NAZIM HIKMET: ON LIVING, LOVE & NATURE | INVITATION

When: On FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 2022
Time: Meet & Greet (in person): 12:30–1:30 | Program (hybrid): 2:00–4:00 PM (EST)

Where: The Salvation Army International Social Justice Commission
Address: 221 E 52nd St, New York, NY 10022 (3^rd Avenue on 52^nd Street)

Please REGISTER for this in person event by June 16 (+hybrid):

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ON LIVING – III

This earth will grow cold,

a star among stars

               and one of the smallest,

a gilded mote on blue velvet—

  I mean this, our great earth.

This earth will grow cold one day,

not like a block of ice

or a dead cloud even 

but like an empty walnut it will roll along

  in pitch-black space . . . 

You must grieve for this right now

—you have to feel this sorrow now—

for the world must be loved this much

                     if you’re going to say “I lived”.

Nazım Hikmet – 1902-1963 
Translated by  Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk

Dear Friends,

Let’s get together to share our favorite poems on ‘LIVING’, LOVE AND NATURE by NAZIM HIKMET (15 January 1902 – 3 June 1963) to celebrate the Poet’s 120th Birth  Anniversary in NYC on FRIDAY, JUNE 17 at 2PM (EST).

Some of you may remember that we had celebrated the Poet’s 100th Birth Anniversary in NYC on
May 2, 2002 with the following titled public program: “To Many More Millennia Dear NAZIM…”

Now, merging the Poet’s 120th Birth Anniversary celebration with The Light Millennium, Charitable Global Human Advancement Organization’s (LMGlobal.Org) 21^st Anniversary (17 July 2001) and the Annual Meeting, which is dedicated to: GLOBAL PEACE

Please email theme related three short poems by the Poet to be presented during the program and/or questions (deadline extended) by June 14, 2022 to > EVENT(@)lightmillennium.org.

Please note:

1. Language: English and Turkish
(This program will be presented in three sections, and only poetry section will be bilingual.)
2. If the same titled poem is sent by others, accordingly, always the first sender will have the priority to present that particular poem.  
Thus, please email up to 3 titles as your 1st, 2nd and 3rd preferences.
3. Each presenter may have up to 3 min. presenting time.
4. MEET & GREET in person from 12:30 PM to 13:30 PM
5. PROGRAM (hybrid): 2:00 – 4:00PM

Invitation (pdf)

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About NAZIM HİKMET (1902–1963)

“Nazim Hikmet was born on January 15, 1902 in Salonika, Ottoman Empire (now Thessaloníki, Greece), where his father served in the Foreign Service. He was exposed to poetry at an early age through his artist mother and poet grandfather, and had his first poems published when he was seventeen.
Raised in Istanbul, Hikmet left Allied-occupied Turkey after the First World War and ended up in Moscow, where he attended the university and met writers and artists from all over the world. After the Turkish Independence in 1924 he returned to Turkey, but was soon arrested for working on a leftist magazine. He managed to escape to Russia, where he continued to write plays and poems.
In 1928 a general amnesty allowed Hikmet to return to Turkey, and during the next ten years he published nine books of poetry—five collections and four long poems—while working as a proofreader, journalist, scriptwriter, and translator. He left Turkey for the last time in 1951, after serving a lengthy jail sentence for his radical acts, and lived in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, where he continued to work for the ideals of world Communism.
After receiving early recognition for his patriotic poems in syllabic meter, he came under the influence of the Russian Futurists in Moscow, and abandoned traditional forms while attempting to “depoetize” poetry.
Many of his works have been translated into English, including Human Landscapes from My Country: An Epic Novel in Verse (2009), Things I Didn’t Know I Loved (1975), The Day Before Tomorrow (1972), The Moscow Symphony (1970), and Selected Poems (1967). In 1936 he published Seyh Bedreddin destani (“The Epic of Shaykh Bedreddin”) and Memleketimden insan manzaralari (“Portraits of People from My Land”).
Hikmet died of a heart attack in Moscow in 1963. The first modern Turkish poet, he is recognized around the world as one of the great international poets of the twentieth century.”
Source: https://poets.org/poet/nazim-hikmet

About The Light Millennium, Charitable Global Human Advancement Organization | LMGlobal.Org #LMGlobalOrg #lightmillennium

LMGlobal.Org has sustained a good standing as an associated NGO with the United Nations Department of Global Communications (formerly, UN-DPI since 2005). The LM publishes online issues, organizes public events, produces-and-presents television programs on the local channels (LMTV) and develops/presents various concepts in multi-platforms. It was introduced on the Web in 1999, and officially founded based in New York in 2001 by Bircan Ünver.

The LM mainly has been focused on public awareness via multimedia platforms, has encouraged active participations from the all walks of life and promotes the following matters within its capacity as a ‘rights based’ organization, based on its initial 2001 Certificate of Incorporation: Human Advancement, Democracy-Equality-Justice, Fostering World Peace, Freedom of Expression, Encouraging Intellectual Productivity, Girls-Women Rights, Cultural Diversity, Advancing Culture of Peace, and Global Connectivity…

The LM is a non-religious, non-political, not-for-profit (501-c-3), nongovernmental (NGO), and independent secular organization. The Organization received the “approval” of the “Amended–and–Broadened” Certificate of Incorporation, and gained a new capacity towards becoming a ‘service‘ and ‘rights‘ based organization, effective as of December 17, 2019. www.lmglobal.org , www.lightmillennium.org

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Please REGISTER for this in person event by June 16 (+hybrid):

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Invitation (pdf)

Reference: “To Many More Millennia Dear Nazım“, for the 100th Birth Anniversary of Nazım Hikmet, #UNESCO #NazımHikmet100, presented at Turkish House, NYC on May 2, 2002.
Summary of the Nazım Hikmet’s 100 Birth Anniversary event: https://www.lightmillennium.org/today/nh_mr_eng_on_may2_02.html

Video recording of the 2002 public event:
LMTV 2002: NAZIM HIKMET: TO MANY MORE MILLENNIA DEAR NAZIM – For His 100th Birth Anniversary
https://vimeo.com/37504828