Poetry evening at Bina Cultural Salon

"Ghosn Program" hosted in its cultural salon, at the headquarters of the Nation Building Movement, the poet "Minyar Al-Issa" coming from the city of "Homs".​

The poet read poems from his colloquial poetry and from the free verse poetry in front of an audience that was able to listen to the whisper of the poetry, as its poet intended.

After the reading, the program director introduced the poet and the awards he received in the fields of short stories and poetry (the “Abdul Hameed Shoman International Poetry Award” for children’s poetry, the “Ronaq Al Maghrib” Award for short stories, and the “Homs Literature Award” for classical poetry), justifying the lack of introduction to the poet’s achievements before the reading, so as not to create a preconceived impression for the recipients of the beauty of what will be read to them. He noted that the poet is an engineer, preparing a master’s thesis, which means that his talent is authentic, because it came from a study that has nothing to do with poetry. Then the session was opened for general discussion, which was rich, as it re-answered the questions of art in a different way.

Some people thought that the poet excelled in colloquial poetry better than in free verse, especially since his recitation of the former was better, while others thought that recitation itself was an element foreign to poetry, as poetry is written to be read.

Some have pointed to the poet's "stardom" in the colloquial field, where famous names are rare, because the colloquial poem is a struggle for its distance from classical Arabic!! It is worth mentioning here that the director of the salon previously noted that a balance will be made today between the ability of classical Arabic and colloquial Arabic to carry the poetic achievement of at least one poet.

Some have drawn attention to the poet’s unique signature, at a time when some names dominate the sky of colloquial and free verse poems, which is considered an achievement for the poet.

Some have analyzed the features of the poems, pointing to their high dramatic charge, their ability to manipulate language, the high tone of metaphor, the presence of beautiful shifts, and their ability to amaze the listener with strong, unexpected closures, in addition to their images: the tangible, which sometimes expresses a high visual scene, which puts the listener in the heart of the image, and the mental at other times, which makes the listener’s imagination soar.

In some free verse poems, the poet was able to create an additional external rhythm by repeating some phrases or words, which is added to the internal rhythm of the poem, which elevates its music, so that all of this is a beautiful technique in writing the poem, but it is not at the expense of the drama of the poem, as it reached the point of personifying the Creator, to become a questioning and responsible party in some poems.

Then it was the poet’s turn to answer the listeners’ questions, so he clarified points related to poetry and the poetics of the poem, focusing on the issue of recitation in its relationship with the poem’s meter division, and with what the poem contains of narration, which does not facilitate that.