World Poetry Reading Series Proudly Presents Poets and Musician for June 25th!
By worldpoetry on June 4, 2007 - 7:13am
World Poetry Reading Series Proudly presents features poets and musician for June 25, 7:30 pm, Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia, Vancouver, BC.
With your hosts Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro-Mujica-Olea
Featured Poets:
Lucy Ortiz, poet and Director of Arts for Proyecto Cultural Sur, Vancouver Branch. Lucy dedicates her life to preserving and promoting the unique cultures of Latin American countries with their language, art, music and poetry. She is published in numerous anthologies and her latest book is: Osmosis Etèreo / Ethereal Osmosis
Douglas Bacon is a local poet, a retired minister of The United Church of Canada and a retired professor of Computer Information Systems (California. His poetry has been well received in Philadelphia, and in London UK, as well as in Vancouver. Bacon’s multilingual peace poem was one of 50 displayed during VPL World Poetry Peace Project in February 2007.
Ibrahim Honjo, originally from Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Herzegovina) has lived in Canada since1995.
Author of 8 published books; he will be launching his latest book of poetry, Do Not Write This Down, Ovo Ne Zapisuj Honjo edited several books and newspapers in Yugoslavia, organized many poetry events, and received several prizes for his poetry.
Anthony Dalton
A freelance writer and photographer, he is the author of non-fiction books and illustrated magazine articles. His latest book is BAYCHIMO, ARCTIC GHOST SHIP. He is the President of the Vancouver branch of the Canadian Authors Association.
Montana King. Local Poet and artist who started out in the Down Town East Side Project. Montana has been featured on the WOrld Poetry Cafe Radio show, 102.7 fm. She has three art exhibitions in the downtown area.
Featured Musician: Originally from Guyana, David Campbell is a singer/songwriter, poet, picture maker. prose writer, story teller, guitarist and most recently, a maker of short videos. He has made 29 albums of his songs, published 5 books, and currently, 9 of his videos, can be viewed on YouTube by and going to YouTube...and typing into their "search" space...David Campbell /Pretty Brown...and clicking...and that should give access to the videos.
