Ariadne Sawyer
By worldpoetry on October 2, 2008 - 11:24pm
Featured radio show guest well known actor and producer Anthony Herrera of the Poetry Theatre Project to be interviewed!
On October 7, from 9:10-9:30 pm, PST, The World Poetry Café with your hosts Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea proudly present the well known actor and producer Anthony Herrera of the Poetry Theatre Project at www.poetrytheatre.org .
In a special an on air interview from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Anthony will be talking about his life and his one man show. He says: “Willie Nelson gave me the idea to put my one man show -- performing poetry -- on the web). The website gives poetry to everyone to inspire, to enjoy and to learn.” *
The statement on the website says:
“Our mission is to continue the oral tradition utilizing modern technology. Poetry Theatre presents actors performing their favorite poems, a glossary of terms and a biography of the poet. Its website gives poetry to everyone to inspire, to enjoy and to learn.”
If you want to listen to Anthony live on the internet, go to www.coopradio.org and follow the links to The World Poetry Café at 9:10 PST. Shows are also archived for three months.
By worldpoetry on September 15, 2008 - 10:40pm
Word on the Street. Date: September 28, Time: 1-2 pm World Poetry is featured once again. This is a great honour for us. Hosts: Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea Featured poets: Adeline da Poet, Lucia Gorea, Seann Traviller and Peter Lojewski. Place: The Poets Corner, VPL, Central Branch.
Come out and support our talented poets!
Info: Ariadne, 604-526-4729 or ariadnes@uniserve.com
By worldpoetry on September 7, 2008 - 11:17pm
World Poetry Fall News!
Lots of events happening…
1. Breaking News! World Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award Winners for 2009! We proudly present An Bong Ja and Diego Bastianutti. They received the most nominations. We want to congratulate them on being WP winners for 2009.
2. September 25th at 7:30 pm World Poetry New Westminster joins the Backroom Theatre Club and the Arts Council of New Westminster for a celebration of the UN Peace Day with a Performing Arts and Peace Project with poetry, readings, documentaries and one act plays at the Heritage Grill, 477 Columbia Street in New Westminster. A call for peace poems has been sent out and selected poems will be on display at the Backroom Theatre Club September 25-28 and then at the Arts Council Gallery September 29-October 28. Also selected poems may be read on the World Poetry Café Radio Show and possibly sent to the peace tower in Iceland.
Please send your peace poems to ariadnes@uniserve.com or info@hmuellerdesign.com
3. Back to work! The World Poetry Committee will be having their first meeting after a long summer, September 27 at 1:15 pm at the Alliance for the Arts. And Culture, Suite 100, 938 Howe Street. We are honoured to have Brain Campbell from the Seriously Free Speech Committee talking about his group. He is a friend of Janice Douglas and is also a former VPL Program director.
By worldpoetry on August 13, 2008 - 2:26pm
World Poetry Achievement Award winner Addena Sumter-Freitag and author of Stay Black and Die will lead 23 World Poets in a celebration of support for AfrikaDey, 3-4:30 pm, August 16-17th at the Serbian Cultural Centre, 7837 Canada Way, Burnaby. Free. Poets will be reading in support of AfrikaDey. A special children’s create a poem table will be there also. Those who write a poem can
also read it in front of an audience if they choose.
For more information: Ariadne Sawyer at 604-526-4729
By worldpoetry on July 4, 2008 - 9:44am
Subject: World Poetry Cafe Radio Show Presents Eliana Cuevas, Consul of Chile, Indran Amirthanayagam and an e-poem by Hadaa Sendoo, Mongolia July 8th at 9 pm PST on CFRO102.7 FM!
The World Poetry Café Radio Show airs every Tuesday at 9 pm PST, with your hosts Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea presents the Chilean Consul in Vancouver, Maria Eliana Cuevas, Indran Amirthanayagam, US consulate attaché in Vancouver to discuss the Intimate Evening with Renowned Chilean Poets and Authors on July 28 at the Vancouver Public Library. Poets to be presented in Spanish with an English Commentary are: Gabriella Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Vicente, Garcia-Huidobro Fernandez and Nicanor Parra. This discussion will include a brief history of the lives of the featured poets.
The email section will include an E-poem by:
Hadaa Sendoo, a world-renowned poet in Mongolia. He is member of the Mongolian Writers Union and has won Prizes for the Best Poet, the Poet of Millennium, Creative Giant Award, and the Life Time Achievement Award for Global Peace through World Poetry. His poems have been translated into English, French, Spanish, Chinese, German, Greek, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Romanian, and Turkish. Now he teaches at National Mongolian University and Edits Poetry Almanac.
By worldpoetry on June 29, 2008 - 6:38pm
The World Poetry Café Radio Show proudly presents a special phone interview with Dr. Stephan Gill, July 1st on CFRO 102.7 FM from 9:10 pm to 9:40 pm PST.
with your hosts Ariadne Sawyer, MA and Alejandro Mujica-Olea.
For our radio listener’s world wide:
1. Go to www.coopradio.org and follow the links to the World Poetry Café, Tuesdays at (pm PST)
2. Three days after the interview the show can be accessed by going to archives. You can also listen to Starchoice Satellite 845
3. Many of our listeners from 19 countries around the world record the show live and listen to it afterward.
Featured Poet
Background information for featured guest:
Poet Laureate of Ansted University, Stephen Gill is an expressive voice of Canada, India and Pakistan. He believes strongly in a democratically elected world government and peace through peaceful means. Global peace and social concerns are the main areas of his interest.
By worldpoetry on June 2, 2008 - 11:30pm
World Poetry Reads at West End Car Less Festival June 15th!
2 pm, June 15th, The Spoken Word Tent at the corner of Denman and Barclay streets.
World Poetry hosts Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea (Spanish/English.
Bernice Lever,
Diego Bastianutti, Italian/English
Jacqueline Maire, French/English
Ibrahim Honjo Serbian.
Free event!
All are welcome!
Info 604-526-4729
By worldpoetry on April 11, 2008 - 12:01am
Many people from around the world collec World Poetry posters.
The biggest response for the last Neruda poster was 57 world wide.
The runner up was Gung Haggis Fat Choy World Poetry with 43.
If you want one or both new posters, please send an e-mail to ariadnes@uniserve.com
Thank you,
Ariadne
By worldpoetry on April 7, 2008 - 11:03pm
Da: Ariadne Sawyer [mailto:ariadnes@uniserve.com]
Inviato: lunedì 7 aprile 2008 6.01
A: ariadnes@uniserve.com
Oggetto: World Poet Diego Bastianutti to receive prestigious 2008 International Literary Prize May 25th in Trieste, Italy!
Priorità: Alta
World Poetry guest co-host and radio co-host Diego Bastianutti will receive the prestigious 2008 International Literary Prize May 25th in Trieste, Italy!
World Poet Diego Bastianutti just received a telegram from Italy, informing him that his book For a Fistful of Soil/ Per un pugno di terra (submitted without his immediate knowledge), has been selected by an international jury of writers as the winner of the 2008 International Literary Prize Umberto Saba, Trieste. There were other prizes awarded in separate sections for published "Novels" and for "Short Stories", and other sections for unpublished works of the same category.
Quite apart from the prize money itself, the Committee has offered to pay for his round-trip flight to Trieste, Italy, plus accommodations. The ceremony will take place on May 25.
He is clearly honoured by this prestigious international recognition, and wishes to share to share his joy with you all.
Diego will also be receiving the World Poetry Ambassador’s medallion for Italy.
By worldpoetry on March 28, 2008 - 7:36pm
World Poetry Her Story
We began The World Poetry Café Reading Series; nine years ago at Miles of Beans Coffee shop in Burnaby, BC.
People often ask me “You do all this work for World Poetry-For Free?” in a voice that implied perhaps I have lost my mind.
Recently I have looked for the answers to this question. The two answers that I come up with are justice and vision.
1) Before we began the series, Alejandro had tried to find a venue to read in Vancouver where he would be allowed to read in Spanish and English. Everywhere he went, he had the door closed. One group, who charged per poem to read, would not even allow him to pay double so that the poem could be in two languages. Some venue hosts were really rude to him. They told him to go home and learn English. It is very hard for a survivor of torture to learn English since he experienced the loud background music of America Rock n Roll while he was tortured in Chile.
