Featured Poet Kagan Goh
Kagan Goh was born in Singapore in 1969. After years of traveling, he migrated to Canada in 1986 and now resides in Vancouver. He is an award winning documentary filmmaker, a spoken word poet, novelist, journalist and mental health activist. His work has been published in anthologies such as “Strike the Wok”: an Asian Canadian anthology of short fiction (TSAR Publications); “Henry Chow and Other Stories from the Asian Canadian Writer’s Workshop” (Tradewinds Books) and the Writer’s Studio 2010 emerge (Simon Fraser University). “Who Let In the Sky?” is his first book.” Listen to this talented writer and poet right now! Sign up for a podcast also.
Radio show hosts Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea dedicated the World Poetry Cafe radio show to our eldest poet, World Poetry Lifetime Achievment Award Winner Dr. Jan Furst who is in the hospital. He hopes to reach his 100th birthday. Our love and good thoughts go out to him from all our World Poetry Family.
Kagan Goh was our featured World Poetry Cafe guest. He shared a moving tribute to his father, using the short stories and poems in his new book“Who Let In the Sky?” Kagan has also completed a film called Stolen Memories which will be aired on TV soon. http://www.stolenmemoriesmovie.com/ for more infromation.
Kagan Goh
Oneal Walter’s Inspirational Poetry contest sent the second place winner John Alexander’s e-poem was also read.
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Welcome Kagan.
I put your film link on the blogroll.
The tribute to your father was very moving. He was a wonderful man and it was an honour to know him.
Hey Kagan, my wonderful friend with pen and film in hand!
So glad you were on the WP Radio Show recently! You know how much I love your poetry and I am inspired simply by you! I remember reading the first draft of your book of poems, thinking to myself, “Wow, I have a lot to learn from this man!”
That’s why I wrote the poem for you, “Rare Bird”. Actually, I titled it that because this is one of the last things I heard your dear father say of you. And your father was a rare man himself-I so miss his company.
Follow your creative path, and you will never go wrong!
Selene