By worldpoetry on December 31, 2008 - 9:54am
World Poetry Cafe Radio Show at 9 pm on 102;7 fm or on the internet: www.coopradio.org
(World Poetry Cafe) proudly present the first poet of the New Year Kagan Goh!
Hosts Ariadne Sawyer and guest host World Poetry Lifetime Achievment Award Winner 2009,
Diego Bastianutti will welcome Kagan Goh.
Kagan Goh is an author who has been published in anthologies such as “Strike the Wok”, “The Return of the Downtown Eastside Poets” and “The Bulletin.” He is a well-established spoken word poet who has participated in poetry slams and numerous readings, open mikes and festivals. Kagan was chosen as one of the feature poets for CBC radio’s “Poetry Face Off”. Central themes running through his work are the damaging effects of the stigma of mental illness, and the exploration of mental illness as a spiritual emergence and vehicle for personal growth and spiritual transformation. Kagan's deeply personal poems and short stories illustrate his transformation from victim to survivor to activist.
Regular host and co-founder Alejandro Mujica-Olea will be reading in Brazil and traveling to Chile for six weeks. Our best wishes to him on his trip.
By worldpoetry on November 6, 2007 - 11:35am
World Poetry Reading Series Second Call!
World Poetry is requesting poems about the environment (The World Poetry Environmental Project) for display during
the celebration of our 7th Gala in February, 2008.
All selected poems will be on display for one month in the Literature section of the Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, 350 West Georgia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
News from the World Poetry Peace Project:
According to the Vancouver Public Library, 700 library patrons viewed The World Poetry Peace Project display in 2007.
*One hundred twenty five poems were written for display on the night of the Gala on February 23, 2007 by the public.
*Seventeen World Poetry poets and writers volunteered at the "Create a Poem" table next to the display Monday through Saturday during the month of February 2007.
World Poetry will have another interactive display for 2008 and include an environmental suggestion box and explore the possibility of an anthology.
Please note the following rules:
Theme: Environment. Bi-lingual poems are very welcome.
1) One poem only please. Note: If the poem is in two languages, one page per
language is permitted.
2) Size 12 -14 fonts.
3) Name, city and country with a copyright symbol at the bottom.
4) All poems are copyrighted to the writer and used for display purposes
By worldpoetry on October 30, 2007 - 3:25pm
World Poetry Lives!
Thanks to a CBC TV News feature with Bob Nixon, we were able to reach the amount of money we needed for our radio show, The World Poetry Café during the latest fall fundraiser.
A few minutes after the show was broadcast, I received a call from a donor in Victoria who kindly donated $200 to put us over our goal and keep us on the air!
We also want to thank poet Douglas Bacon, World Poetry Volunteer of the Year 2008 and Addena Sumter-Freitag for reading their poetry and expressing themselves with great soul on the subject of poetry.
We have to come up with $700 per year to keep The World Poetry Café on the air and during the two fundraisers that Co-op radio has per year, is the time to get memberships.
Coop Radio relies only upon the financial support of its members.
Thank you to CBC TV News and Gloria Macarenko for saying: “World Poetry Lives!”
