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World Poetry Cafe Radio Show Proudly Presents MELANIE FAITH, Jan. 13th!

By worldpoetry on January 11, 2009 - 1:40am

Host Ariadne Sawyer and Diego Bastianutti welcome a phone in guest from the United States on Jan. 13. The show starts at 9 pm PST.
Featured poet:
MELANIE FAITH is an author and educator who holds an MFA in Creative Writing
from Queens University of Charlotte, NC (2007). Her current poetry chapbook,
Bright Burning Fuse, was a finalist in the 2008 Keyhole Magazine Chapbook
contest and was published by Etched Press (www.etchedpress.com ) in Dec.
2008. She has been a small-town newspaper journalist, an ESL classroom
teacher for international students, and (currently) a literature and writing
tutor at a private high school in rural Pennsylvania. In addition to writing
two novels seeking representation, her articles about creative writing
appeared in RWR (Dec. '08) and will be published in The Writer (Nov. '09).
Her poems and landscape and architectural photography recently appeared or
will appear in MO: Writings From The River (Montana State University, Spring
'09 issue), The Broken Plate (Ball State University, April '09 issue), Shape
of a Box (Dec. '08, www.youtube.com/shapeofabox), The Binnacle (University
of Maine), Mademoiselle's Fingertips, Emprise Review and The Iguana Review.
She welcomes literary messages or chapbook orders at writer@pa.net.
Listen on line:Go to www.coopradio.org and follow the links to the World Poetry Cafe or listen

The World Cafe Presents and evening of Chilean authors and an e-poem by Hadaa Sendoo, Mongolia

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.