World Poetry Celebrates Alan Hill!

Ariadne’s Notes:

The World Peace Day has had so many entries far from 67 countries  with wonderful poets , musicians and artists, celebrating peace.

Also, in the show were two e-peace poems by : Peace Crusader: Bernice Lever who wrote: ” Here is a Peace Poem from my last book in SMALL ACTS called Peace Gardener  I will do what I can to distribute this poem, making copies for the places I will be at the Sept. 13, Canadian authors monthly meeting , eve. at Alliance for the Arts Bldg., on Howe St. and perhaps 1 or 2  other writer gatherings.

I will print some extra copies for Bowen Island Library, Bowen Is. Art Gallery, our local book store, etc.  Maybe drop one off at our City Hall, too! “

Cheonhak Kwon debuted in the literary journal Hyundae Munhak, and served as a member of Jindan Si, a poetry society in South Korea. She immigrated to Canada in 2008, and was awarded the Kyung Hee University Overseas Korean Literary Award in 2010 for the short story “Stuffed Cucumber Kimchi.” Her peace poem is :Everyone is a Prisoner: I am still in an apple seed.

Also included in the show was music from a CD celebrating the 50^th  anniversary of  Poet Carl Sandburg  with music and readers from the CD Honey and Salt  by  Mat Wilson from Braithwaite and Katz. Our great radio engineer Victor Schwartzman also played a poem  written by and read by Carl Sandburg.

The WP team: Ariadne Sawyer, host and producer. Victor Schwartzman  and special volunteer Sharon  Rowe.

LISTEN TO THE WORLD POETRY SHOW Here!

Alan Hill is the Poet Laureate of the City of New Westminster BC. He has been previously published in Canada, UK and the USA in over forty publications, including EVENT, Canadian Literature, CV2, SubTerrain, Poetry is Dead and the Cascadia Review. He is the author of two full length books of poetry, The Upstairs Country (2012) and The Broken Word (2013). He began writing in 2001 whilst spending two years living and working in Botswana.