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Happy New Year Update!

Ariadne’s Notes:

I want to thank all the World Poetry Participants , publishers, the World Poetry Canada International closed groups Peaceathon, World Poetry Youth Team and, media partners in print and digital poetry association partners and film partners. In 2017, the film partners reached numbered 7 and we are grateful for their wonderful films and the opportunity to promote them. We hope to expand into other media as well.

The World Poetry Café radio show has been on the air continually since 1991 and the current team will be adding a couple of guest hosts in January and February. We just received a certificate from the station which I hope to post.

The show how has now reached 101 countries and the book launches have also been very popular with a wait list for a variety of guests from LA and New York , USA, as well as the world.

The World Poetry Peace Celebration still has poems to be read on the show and certificates to be sent out. 700 peace poems were received and are being read on the show with more coming in.

I want to thank all of your who have sent messages, phoned and contacted me in appreciation of what World Poetry has done for them, opened the doors for contacts and positive exposure and in bringing the poets, musicians, artists, writers together worldwide as a family in support of respect, love and peace. As one media person put it! “They love your positive and respectful show!’’

A big thank you to are directors and advisors!

This is a volunteer position for me and I hope to do the best job possible promoting all of you.

In the new year, we hope to expand with a FB Media Page, podcasts and World Poetry Media reporters searching out and reporting on positive news with the goals of respect, unity, love and peace.

In peace, respect and love,

Ariadne

A Special Message From Director Alaha Ahrar!

A special message for 2018 from humanitarian advocate and creator of peace Alaha Ahrar!

LISTEN TO THE RADIO SHOW TO HEAR THIS MESSAGE!

The Desire for a Fair and Just World

I want a world that is fair and just to all.
I want a world where everyone tries to be kind and understanding.
I want a world, where, instead of planting the seeds of hatred, everyone plants seeds of love.
I want a world where people, instead of competing and ruining each other, try to appreciate and help one other.
I want a world where everyone knows that they cannot be someone else. They can mimic everything, they can have other person’s style and go to school to get the same education, but they can never have another person’s personality, mind and talent.
I want a world where everyone appreciates who they are, how they look, and where everyone accepts that our diversities and differences add to the beauty of our surroundings and our world.
I want a world where everyone realizes that we are all needy. We all need the help and support of each other. A cardiologist needs the work of a mechanic when he needs someone to fix his car, a mechanic needs the work of baker, a baker needs the work of a shopkeeper, a shopkeeper needs a banker, a banker needs the people to make bank accounts. Even the kings and presidents need nations to lead.
Finally, if there is no needless person in the entire world, then why be arrogant!
I want a world where no one discriminates against any human being based on color, race, religion, ethnicity, language or disabilities.

Alaha Ahrar (C) All rights reserved.

12/10/2017

Human Rights Activist ,Community Development Advocate-FACETS, Board of Directors

Afghan Women’s Writing Project

Director of Media and Publication Afghan-American Women’s Association (A-AWA)

The Director of International World Poetry, Youth Team Canada

World Poetry Celebrates Rebecca Papucaru From Quebec!

Ariadne’s Notes: A wonderful interview with the talented Rebecca Papucaru on October 12th at 1:35 PM, PST on the World Poetry Café, CFRO, 100.5 FM . Featuring her new book, The Panic Room, by Nightwood Editions (Harbour Publishing, with thanks to Nathaniel Moore, publicist for his good work. She paints pictures with words and gives each reader something to relate to.

LISTEN TO THE SHOW HERE!

Rebecca Papucaru Author of the new book, the Panic Room, Harbour Publishing. She is preoccupied with the complexities of identity and selfhood, memory, embodiment, loss, and family, Rebecca Papucaru carefully examines details that make up one’s lived experience.

“Lobster Dinner” describes a happy childhood memory of eating an entire lobster with an admiring father as her audience. “Take It or Leave It” is the casual and quotidian, yet heartbreaking, failure of a daughter and her mother to find an emotional connection during an art gallery outing. “Your Women Are Beautiful” betrays the dreamy excitement of travelling in an unfamiliar place, juxtaposed with the blunt reality of arriving home again.

The Panic Room is about the giants that loom over us, too. A second-generation Eastern European Jewish immigrant, Papucaru attempts to grapple with connecting with her family’s past as well as the distinct feeling of being disconnected. In “On Watching an Eastern Bloc Comedy” she writes, “I’m one generation apart from all this, / and ashamed. Of my father, before his / refrigerator, mourning age spots on lettuce.”

Papucaru offers unabashed honesty: the sort of reflections you’d only tell your dearest friend.

Rebecca Papucaru’s work has appeared in journals such as The Antigonish Review, PRISM international, The Malahat Review, The Dalhousie Review and Event. She has been anthologized in I Found it at the Movies: An Anthology of Film Poems (Guernica Editions, 2014) and Best Canadian Poetry in English (2010). She lives in Sherbrooke, QC.

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