world poetry
By worldpoetry on December 5, 2008 - 3:01pm
To you my dear friends,
Greetings!
I’ve just had a phone call from T.V. Korea, informing:
Our ‘Celebration Tagore’ (Nov. 24th) event will be aired three times.
The scheduled airing times are as follows:
Dec. 5th (Friday) - 1:30 ~ 2:00 PM -- Ch. 119
Dec. 7th (Sunday) – 10 ~ 10:30 AM -- Ch. 119
Dec. 8th (Monday) – 7:30 ~ 8:00 AM -- Ch. 8
I hope you will have time to watch it and enjoy the special event we all joined two weeks ago.
Thanks.
By worldpoetry on December 3, 2008 - 11:58pm
1st World Poetry Call for “The Many Faces of Love Poems”.
World Poetry would like submissions for our interactive display at the Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch for display February 20-27th on level three in the Literature Section.
We will be celebrating our 8th annual Gala at the Alma Van Dusen and Peter McKaye rooms at the Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia St, Vancouver BC on February 27th at 7 PM.
We will have World Poetry volunteers at the Create a Poem Table at the Vancouver Public Library throughout the week.
Please send a one page poem in English or one poem in English and another language.
Theme: The Many Faces of Love. There are many types of love that can be explored in this display.
Font: New Romans, size 12.
Please put your name, city, country plus © sign at the bottom.
Poets from around the world are welcome.
This is a one time copyright only.
Deadline: January 5th, 2009.
You will be notified if your poem is accepted. Selected poems will be read on the World Poetry Café Radio Show with your permission.
Please send your poems to: Ariadne Sawyer, World Poetry co-founder and co-host at: ariadnes@uniserve.com
By worldpoetry on December 2, 2008 - 5:55pm
World Poet Diego Bastianutti is asking for help!
His book has sold out at all the local stores in Vancouver and many people are trying to buy it.
They are phoning and e-mailing since his recent interview on North by Northwest on CBC Radio One.
He says: "Help! Anyone wishing to buy my book (Per un pugno di terra/For a Fistful of Soil) can contact me directly at my e-mail (diegob@shaw.ca), or by calling me at (604) 454-9911. The book
is $25.00 plus $3.00 mailing. Thank you."
By worldpoetry on November 23, 2008 - 12:54am
The World Poetry Life Celebration (Tagore Utsav) of the first Asian Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore!
Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia, Vancouver, BC
Alice MacKaye Room, (downstairs). November 24, at 7pm.
World Poetry Guest hosts : Ashok Bhargava and Bong Ja Ahn
Consul General of India : Mr. A. Das
Consul General of Republic of Korea : Mr. Tong-Mo Suh
Participants : Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea, Addena Sumter-Freitag, Bernice Lever, Shirley Sue –A- Qwan and Archana Harit, Diego Bastianutti and Anthony Dalton.
Korean Kayagum player : Grace Jong Eun Lee
Indian Musician : Kalpana Prasad
Indian Dancer : Koyali Burman
Korean Mask Dancers : Chang Hyun Han, Han Bin Im, Sung Rai Kim
Admission free.
Info: Ariadne Sawyer, 604-526-4729
Poster and program available.ariadnes@uniserve.com
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 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 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 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.
By worldpoetry on February 23, 2008 - 12:00pm
World Poetry Gala Program 2008.
Feb. 29 at the Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, BC 350 West Georgia St,Vancouver , BC.
Hostas, Ariadne Sawyer, MA and Alejandro Mujica-Olea (the Peoples Poet)
Admission free!
6:30Pm Doors open for displays and light refreshments. Background music Rene Hugo y Sus Amigos. 7:pm Program starts.
Greetings from the library.
Presentation of World Poetry City Poets and Library Award.
Greetings from the City of Vancouver, Councilwoman Elizabeth Ball.
Short Blessings: Godwin Barton, First Nations, Dr. Douglas Bacon, Rene Hugo Sanchez, Spanish and Quechwa.
Welcome by Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea.
Thanks to volunteers, World Poetry Committee and sponsors.
Shout to World Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Madge Kimball who passed on in 2008.
Welcome to the Lifetime achievement Award Winners by the winners of 2007, Victoria
Pascha and Jan Furst.
Presentation of the Lifetime Award to Bernice Lever.
Diego Bastianutti, poem and presentation of World Poetry Award.
Song by Jude Neal with guitar by Andrew Cameron.
Poems by Bernice Lever .
Welcome Music by Rene Hugo y Sus Amigos.
Intro by Ida Bhargava
Poem by Ahn Bong Ja
Presentation of World Poetry Lifetime Award for Ashok Bhargava
by Mrs. Sabrina Noorani from the Canadian Immigrant Magazine.
Poems by Ashok Bhargava.
