Sichuan online reporter Xiao Shanshan text/photo
"Now, I'm going to be alone / Let the waves of the mountains fill me / My ankles / My ivory ankles are the roots of an old tree..." When the famous writer Alai's classic poem "Mountains, or Ode to Myself" reverberated over my hometown of Malcolm, in the name of Alai, with poetry as the meaning, poets from all over the country gathered here for a grand meeting of original poetry.
The scene of the award ceremony
On the afternoon of October 28th, as one of the important activities of malkang's 9th Jiarong Naozhuang Cultural Tourism Festival, the award ceremony of the highly anticipated 3rd Alai Poetry Festival Original Poetry Competition opened in Malkang, and the award-winning poets were rewarded one by one.
Love a city, write a poem, the award ceremony of the 3rd Alai Poetry Festival Original Poetry Competition kicked off with a film review of the previous awards ceremonies, and the guests were deeply moved by this hot land of poetry under the influence of immersive vision. "Meet Malcom", "Poetry Malcom", "Sing Tour Malcom", "Fall in Love with Malcom", "Bless Malcolm", a performance of sitcoms, tells the poetry of the city.
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At the award ceremony, Gong Xuemin, vice chairman of the Provincial Writers Association and editor-in-chief of the Star Poetry Journal, said in his speech that the holding of the Alai Poetry Festival is to inspire and absorb more poets and scholars to enter Sichuan, into Aba Prefecture, into Malkang, into the snowy plateau, and through the creation of literary works and cultural brands, more literary and artistic works with historical thickness and emotional temperature will be launched. "The entries of this Alai Poetry Festival have both the characteristics of the times and the characteristics of the region; It is both original and exquisite; It not only recounts the poetic elegance, but also embodies life, praises the new era, and publicizes the new era... It has a strong rendering power and interprets the beauty of classic poetry. Gong Xuemin commented.
According to reports, in April 2021, the third "Alai Poetry Festival" original poetry competition was officially launched, which lasted for two months, received a total of 908 poems, and finally selected 1 first prize, 3 second prizes, 5 third prizes, and 20 excellent awards.
Ah Lai with first prize winner Mei Yifan.
Shaanxi poet Mei Yifan (real name Xie Lirong) won the first prize for his poem "Malkang, Street Market in Heaven", "The Love of Aba" by two poets from Liaoning, Du Wei and Zhang Jun, and "In Malkang, Every Flower is a Sentence of Time" and Shaanxi poet Wan Shichang's poem "Malkang, Meet in a Bird Song", zhejiang poet Zhou Weiqiang, Anhui poet Yang Fei, Shandong poet Li Enwei, Sichuan poet Zhan Yijun and Jin Jianhua won the third prize. In addition, 20 poets from Sichuan, Guangdong, Shanxi, Zhejiang, Shanxi, Hunan and other poets won the Excellence Award.
The first prize winner Mei Yifan (real name Xie Lirong) was very excited, she said bluntly: "I am from Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, and I am very happy to learn that I have won the first prize. In the land of China and the holy land of Jiarong, in the form of poetry, I was sent to Malkang' side, to Teacher Alai's side, to the place where the dust settled. ”
Malcolm is a paradise for poetry creation, and in recent years, the city of Malcolm has created the Alai Poetry Festival after the famous writer Alai. Since its inception in 2019, the Alai Poetry Festival has gone through two sessions and has gradually become a major cultural event of great importance in the Chinese poetry scene.
Winner of the Excellence Award.
The famous writer Ah Lai personally came to the award ceremony, he confessed affectionately: "I have written nearly 30 books today, but the first book is a collection of poems, lyric poems, and its name is called Somo River, each of us has a hometown, the hometown is the most solid starting point for us to go to the world, because each of us will not stay in the hometown forever, but the hometown will always be the station and dock where we first set off, but no matter where we go in the world, any corner of the world. No matter how far away it is, but you will find that you and so many people in the world, they also come from their respective hometowns, each person carries a different temperament, education, different artistic talents, in fact, this is a secret of the world's cultural diversity, that is, we people have different regions, different nationalities, different cultures, different geographies, which has become the beauty of our literary expression world, expressing the world's rich and vast spiritual space, and imagining the world. So today the Alai Poetry Festival in my hometown with my name to name, has been the third session, this for me, with my name to name this poetry festival is a great honor for me, I think this naming, more important than all the literary awards I have won, that is, the hometown has not forgotten a wanderer who has gone away, of course, I am also very happy that my name in my hometown can be used repeatedly, a little bit of gold content, which is also an important reason why I often dare to return to my hometown, I wish my hometown is getting better and better, I wish the country more and more good, May the poetry festival become more and more influential!"