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World Poetry Celebrates Dee Hobsbawn-Smith!

Ariadne’s Notes: On April 20, 2017, 1PM on CFRO, 100.5 FM, the World Poetry Café welcomed the multitalented and powerful poetess, Dee Hobsbawn-Smith, retired chief and sustainable food advocate. Her words of advise and wisdom about food, cooking and poetry were absolutely empowering to all the listeners. She will be on tour in the coming months, including in B.C. For a list of her tour dates: www.deehobsbawnsmith.com

Thanks to the World Poetry café Team of Ariadne Sawyer, producer and host, Anita Aguirre Nieveras , super engineer, Victor Schwartzman special volunteer Sharon Rowe and volunteer Willow the dog. Music by Anthony Prosk (Gulf Island Suite) and Don Amero (CD, Refined)

A must hear show for the planet : CLICK HERE!

Photo by Shelley Banks.

dee hobsbawn-smith’s poetry, essays, fiction and journalism has appeared in newspapers, websites, magazines, anthologies and literary journals in Canada, the USA and Scotland, including Grain, Gastronomica: The Journal of Culture and Food, The Malahat Reiview, Prairie Fire, The Antigonish Review, Vallum, CV2, Freefall and others. In 2015-16, she served as the Saskatoon Public Library’s 35^th Writer in Residence. A retired chef and ex-restaurateur, she lives west of Saskatoon and earned her MFA in Writing at the University of Saskatchewan. She has published seven books. Foodshed: An Edible Albert Alphabet (Touchwood, 2012) won three international awards for its unflinching examination of the politics and challenges of small-scale sustainable food production. Her first collection of poetry, Wildness Rushing In (Hagios, 2014) was a finalist for Book of the Year and Best Poetry Collection at the Saskatchewan Book Awards. It was followed by her first short fiction collection, What Can’t Be Undone (Thistledown, 2015.) At present, she is working on her debut novel, an essay collection, and new poetry. Most recently, she has contributed to the SK poetry anthology, Line Dance (Burton Books, 2016), edited by Gerald Hill, and was part of a contingent of Canadian poets who read at The Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. www.deehobsbawnsmith.com

Red cedar

thirty years of your brother’s life

hanging in a cedar-lined closet under the back stairs.

~ Judith Krause, “A History of Shirts” from Mongrel Love

The cedar chest came from Lebanon, a gift.

In one corner, tiny clothes

I sewed for my sons.

Childhood never wears out.

It travels with me, that time. Before

I came to poetry, I lived it –

swung high swoops on redwood swings,

small sons on lap, leaped

like a leopard over fire hydrants at their urging.

In the chest, purple fleece vests outgrown

before the seams could strain or fade,

jesters’ hats, laid aside when they outgrew magic.

I wear their vests and hats now on my morning walks,

wrap myself in my sons’ childhood,

red cedar days that never wear out.

World Poetry Celebrates Alan Girling!

Ariadne’s Notes:

World Poetry Café Radio Show with hosts Ariadne Sawyer, Neall Ryon , super tech Victor Schwartzman and volunteer Sharon Rowe welcomed the poet, host and writer, Alan Girling on October 17^th on CFRO 100.5 FM with music and poetry.

Tribute music by Leonard Cohen
E-poem by Monsif Beroual.

TO HEAR THE SHOW: CLICK HERE!

Painting by director Mirwais Jabaz.

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Alan Girling grew up in North Vancouver, lived in Japan for six years, and now lives in Richmond. He tends to write poetry, or occasionally, short fiction, non-fiction and drama. His work had been featured online, in journals and anthologies, on the radio, at local live readings, in shop windows and in one slim chapbook. Venues include Lichen Arts and Letters, Hobart, The MacGuffin, Smokelong Quarterly, Pagitica, FreeFall, Galleon, In My Bed, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Body Breakdowns, Blue Skies, Black Heart Magazine, Canadian Stories, CBC Radio, World Poetry, Poetic Justice and Surrey Muse. He was a finalist for the Larry Turner Award for Non-Fiction, had a play produced for Vancouver’s Walking Fish Festival and has received two first place prizes for poetry, one in the 2006 Vancouver Co-op Radio Community Dreams Contest and most recently in the 2015 Royal City Literary Arts Society Write On! Contest.

World Poetry Celebrates Kiyano John Nguyen!

The World Poetry Café Radio Show on September 15, 1-2 pm CFRO 100.5 FM, with host and producer, Ariadne Sawyer, host Neall Ryon, engineer Victor Schwartzman and volunteer Sharon Rowe welcomed the talented youth poet Kiyano John Nguyen and his wonderful mother Wanda John-Kehewin. It was a fascinating show with a welcome poem by World Poetry Life Time Achievement Award Winner Vera Manuel, read by Ariadne Sawyer and music by Don Amero. Kiyano’s poetry was profound and well read. World Poetry is so proud of the youth of the world!

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Kiyano is a high school student who writes to express himself. He has been published in Quills poetry as well as Ricepaper Magazine under the name Kiyano John -Kehewin. He is of Cree and Vietnamese decent. He loves using his creative side through painting, drawing, and writing. His writing, he says comes from a place where he can see both the light and dark of the state of the wor

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Tag Archives: Sharon Rowe

World Poetry Celebrates Dee Hobsbawn-Smith!

Thanks to the World Poetry café Team of Ariadne Sawyer, producer and host, Anita Aguirre Nieveras , super engineer, Victor Schwartzman special volunteer Sharon Rowe and volunteer Willow the dog. Music by Anthony Prosk (Gulf Island Suite) and Don Amero (CD, Refined)

A must hear show for the planet : CLICK HERE!

World Poetry Celebrates Alan Girling!

Ariadne’s Notes:

World Poetry Café Radio Show with hosts Ariadne Sawyer, Neall Ryon , super tech Victor Schwartzman and volunteer Sharon Rowe welcomed the poet, host and writer, Alan Girling on October 17^th on CFRO 100.5 FM with music and poetry.

Tribute music by Leonard Cohen
E-poem by Monsif Beroual.

Painting by director Mirwais Jabaz.

World Poetry Celebrates Kiyano John Nguyen!

Thanks to the World Poetry café Team of Ariadne Sawyer, producer and host, Anita Aguirre Nieveras , super engineer, Victor Schwartzman special volunteer Sharon Rowe and volunteer Willow the dog. Music by Anthony Prosk (Gulf Island Suite) and Don Amero (CD, Refined)

A must hear show for the planet : CLICK HERE!

Ariadne’s Notes:

World Poetry Café Radio Show with hosts Ariadne Sawyer, Neall Ryon , super tech Victor Schwartzman and volunteer Sharon Rowe welcomed the poet, host and writer, Alan Girling on October 17th on CFRO 100.5 FM with music and poetry.

Tribute music by Leonard Cohen E-poem by Monsif Beroual.

Painting by director Mirwais Jabaz.

World Poetry Café Radio Show with hosts Ariadne Sawyer, Neall Ryon , super tech Victor Schwartzman and volunteer Sharon Rowe welcomed the poet, host and writer, Alan Girling on October 17^th on CFRO 100.5 FM with music and poetry.

Tribute music by Leonard Cohen
E-poem by Monsif Beroual.