WORLD POETRY SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
Issue 33: The Neruda Issue
~ This issue is dedicated to Shulamit Joffre. ~
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PUBLISHER: Ariadne Sawyer
EDITOR: Anita Aguirre Nieveras
CONTACT: World Poetry Publishing
ariadnes@uniserve.com
CONTENTS:
WELCOME TO ISSUE 33!Dear World Poetry extended family and supporters.
It is with great sadness that our beloved editor and mystical poet Shulamit Joffre passed away several months ago. She was a great supporter and tireless volunteer for World Poetry and is sadly missed. Shulamit had been selected as the World Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award Winner in 2007. When we visited her in the hospital she told me that if she didnít ìreceive the award in this world, she would receive it in the other world.î We will be presenting the award on February 23, 2007 to her husband Raymond, daughter Jessica, son Kenny and much loved grandson Nathanial.
World Poetry also lost two other Lifetime Award Winners, Dugald Christie, and Crusader for Justice, lost his life cycling to Ottawa to bring the need for justice for the poor to Ottawa. He was hit by a car and killed. Luis Llanillos, originally from Chile was a great help to World Poetry Café Radio Show when we first went on the area passed away also. He had two radio shows on CFRO, Horizontes and Romantic Tango Show. We will miss these wonderful people and good poets.
Other NewsWorld Poets on Tour had a very successful summer with poets coming form the interior of BC, California and Israel. I have the library dates for 2007 so if anyone is planning a trip next summer or next year, please contact me.
I was honoured to receive press credentials on behalf of the World poetry Reading Series and the World Poetry Café Radio Show in order to attend the visit and dialogues of H.H. Holiness the Dalai Lama to Vancouver to open the Peace and Education Centre. It was an amazing and remarkable experience. The following poem was written about the response of the press.
On September 9th, I had the great privilege of attending the dialogue on Happiness and Stress as determinants of Mental Health with the Dalai Lama.
I was able to witness a transformation win the reporterís media section and see a wave of happiness and compassion spreading through the room and throughout the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver, B.C. Canada.
I wrote this poem to describe what I saw.
The Dalai LamaCompassion, respect and happiness...
These words flow from the Dalai Lama.
Each one, a treasured pearl released.
Surrounding us, touching us to our very depths.
The hard bitter faces of the reporters have seen too much, heard too much, know too much. Stress and worry permeate the room-a dark cloud hovers.
Pearls of compassionate words come, transforming, creating new vibrations, altering the atoms and molecules that make up our shared reality.
The press, now thawing, their faces lighten with smiles and the ghosts of laughter. We return to our shared humanity.
Contentment and joy permeate the theatre...
The Dalai Lama, a simple Buddhist monk has spoken.
By Ariadne Sawyer ©
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In this issue, there is a report on the Neruda Celebration, news from the World Poetry Café Radio show and a call for poetry to the first woman Nobel Prize winner Chilean Gabriella Mistral. On April 30th, we will be joining the Chilean Consulate the Honorable Maria Eliana Cuevas in Vancouver along with other countries around the world in a celebration of her life on the 50th anniversary with poetry, music and dance.
Featured also are some of the poems from the Neruda display and Creativity Rocks!
The World Poetry Newsletter continues to expand. We now have readers in quite a few countries.
We are urgently looking for an editor and a proof reader. If any of our cherished readers would like to help, please contact
ariadnes@uniserve.com We also welcome comments, suggestions and articles.
THE WORLD POETRY NERUDA CELEBRATIONThe World Poetry Neruda Celebration was a great success!
On Monday night, July 31st, World Poetry Reading Series hosts Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea welcomed approximately 200 people to the Alice McKaye room at the Vancouver Public library, our gracious hosts and partners.
A display of 190 poems to Neruda were submitted by poets around the world surrounded the event. There was considerable interest from the audience. There were also artistís tables and a table by Proyecto Cultural Sur, an international Latin American cultural group with local directors Lucy Ortiz and Edgar Garcia.
In attendance were the consulate generals of Chile, the Philippines and India.
The Chilean Consul General, Maria Eliana Cuevas opened the celebration with a letter of support from The Neruda Foundation from Santiago Chile.
One of the highlights was the Neruda plant who had been brought up from Chile as a small plant and given to Ariadne Sawyer. About five months ago, the Neruda plant almost died. After a startling transformation, it came back to be even bigger and greener than before. For a photo of the amazing plant E-mail
ariadnes@uniserve.com.
Another highlight was a surprise visit from Neruda himself, complete with pancho and beret. Neruda, played by Alejandro Mujica-Olea, entertained the listeners with comments on poetry, power and freedom, worries about poverty and asked for red wine and empanadas.
The main feature was the 20 poets who read the poems of Neruda in English and another language. Many of the poets were dressed in the clothing of their countries and were colourful and vibrant.
The Tibetan traditional singer Tamdin Tseten, dressed in beautiful Tibet clothing sang the Tibetan version of one of the poems.
Featured Poets reading Nerudaís poetry in many languages:
• Maria Eliana Cuevas, James Mullin
• Victoria Pascha, Warren Stevenson
• Anita Aguirre Nieveras, Laszlo Gati
• Tamdin Tseten, Vera Manuel
• Shirley Sue -A-Quan, Ashok Bhargava
• Diego Bastianutti, Addena Sumter Freitag
• Robin Susanto, Carole MacRury
• Lucia Gorea, Christopher Martin
• Archana Harit, Deborah Kelly
• Peter Lojewski, Sandra Locke
The music of the well known Chilean singer, Jorge Leyton rounded out the evening. Many people said that this celebration was the best ever,
A DVD of the event is available for $20.00 plus $5.00 shipping and handling. Pictures are available by e-mail.
For more information, contact Ariadne Sawyer:
ariadnes@uniserve.com.
WORLD POETRY NEWSThe World Poetry Reading Series Proudly Presents:
The World Poetry Café Radio Show!Every Tuesday from 9-10 PM on Vancouver Co-op Radio (CFRO — 102.7 FM).
• For satellite access: Starchoice 845
• For internet access, go to
www.coopradio.org.
Listen in to our multilingual program in English, Spanish and the language of the poet. Interviews and poetry! The Life and work of a poet: bi-lingual short with different producers.
New Program: World Poetry Stage!Send in your e-poem to
ariadnes@uniserve.com from outside the greater Vancouver area and we will read it on the radio! English and Spanish can be read on the air.
Musician call: Creativity Rocks! by Ariadne SawyerCreativity Rocks! is looking for Vancouver and Canadian musicians to be featured in the opening song on Creativity Rocks! You will be featured for one month. A brief bio is required which will be read on the air.
For more information:
ariadnes@uniserve.com.
Past featured musicians include:
- May is Linda Lucas from Woodstock, Ontario with her CD Carriage.
- June: Terence Warbey from Salt Spring Island with his CD Celtic Heart.
- July: Joe McDonald from Burnaby, BC with Brave Waves-Havens of the Light.
- August: Holly and Jon from, Kootenay region of B.C. with BIG WIND on the Way.
- September Swan Walker, from Victoria, BC with Taking a Chance.
- October: Tamara Rose with her CD Double Feature.
- November: Aspen Switzer from Nelson, BC with her CD Narrow Sky.
Join our World Poet Radio Family by becoming a member and put in The World Poetry Café as your favorite show! Contact co-op radio on the net by going to:
www.coopradio.org.
Early call for poemsCall for poems inspired by or about Gabriella Mistral, Chilean Nobel Prize winner for literature. Grand celebration on April 30th, 2007. For more information, please contact:
ariadnes@uniserve.com.
Neruda Anthology in the works!There are plans underway for a Neruda Anthology, selected poems from the Neruda celebration. If anyone wants more information or is interested, please contact Ariadne.
WORLD POETRY STAGE FEATURESSelected poems from the Neruda celebration.
Requiem for the Atom
Atom
Element of Universal Life.
Unseen fields radiating half-lifes
of quasi-electro-magnetic emissions.
Self contained
frantically buzzing omniverse.
A geo-spherical psychedelic speck
in our cosmic prism eye.
Empty volumes of star space filled with thoughts
of dark and light.
The fuzzy essence of quarky matter.
The waking of a sun
almost nothing, taking on everything.
A micro-galaxy of Being.
In one spin
death is borne.
Waves of light burst the seams of all the tiny worlds.
Oceanic rush of gluonic plasma.
Mankind has opened the door for the hidden grand flame to become
the monstrous discharge of the diabolical.
Atum - first order of a virtual synergy of creation
The fragile chaotic genesis of intra-stellar power
Reflecting, outwardly projecting,
Mankind's Fractured Soul.
(Inspired by Pablo Neruda's "Ode to an Atom")
By tim/zuz 2006 ©
Tim Lang was born (CDN) into a Baptist military home and consequently developed into a heretic and an anti-establishmentarian. He is a gifted esoteric enigma according to all the tests of our age and popular opinion. An undergraduate victim of neuro-psyche-logy and constantly developing master of Nietzschian philosophy, Tim is firmly convinced that all states of consciousness are altered states of consciousness. He believes that poetic mind states most closely resemble William Blake's "infinite" reality. Highly experimental with graphics, poetics, and philosophy many of Tim's works have been compared to Jim Morrison's and Pablo Neruda's writings. His favorite quote is Nietzsche's "The Poet and the Bird." Although Tim has tried desperately, he has not yet enjoyed his fifteen minutes of fame.• Publishers note: We are working on the fifteen minutes of fame.
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Arise Pablo Neruda, Arise!
In the beginning were his words,
Strewn afield like seedlings of a Sower
Grown on the plosive expanse of time.
Wisdom blazed his pen sharper than two edged sword,
And like a goldsmith, forged an "essence"
That defies the droops of mortality
His name clatters on the firmament of letters
Like raindrops on corrugated roof;
Reconnecting his "persona"
With his luminous absence.
Brighter and sharper, the World props
Its fallen epithet on him,
"Arise!î it says, outlive this brief World.
By Sunday Aremu. ©
Sunday Aremu is simply a widely traveled Nigerian based in Chicago; a poet, painter, sculptor and a philosopher.~ ~ ~
Neruda Century
At the waterís edge
in the evening twilight
when the world is spacious and quiet
my blood is an ocean finding its shore
Far away, on an old phonograph
a haunting melody begins
a Chilean love-song, plaintiff and beautiful
And all along the wide avenues
festive street lamps are lit
as the sea deepens its blue
the foam a brilliant white
The sound of voices grows,
not urgent, but ambling and joyful
And from everywhere the masses gather
filling the public square
Retracing your footsteps
in the streets where you walked,
Infinitesimal being, drunk with
a new geography of self
We arrive clutching little snippets of verse
in a wide and warm embrace
The poet of the perpetual cup
is one hundred years today
There is dancing and feasting in celebration
there are smiles, greetings, and intimate conversations
Round tables and white tablecloths, wine and song
And we the multitudes of
too many names have lost our shoes
slipped them off, like we slipped time
We are dust or sand
rain under rain,
and the pounding waves
dispense sea spray and starry echoes
By Maraiba Christu, Vancouver ©
Maraiba has been writing poetry for over a decade. Her work tends to explore the beauty and solace of the natural world, human connectedness, dream life, and wide awake presence. This one, celebrating the life of Pablo Neruda is one of a series she has written about poets whose life and work have inspired her own. Maraiba has read for World Poet's Night Out and is currently compiling her first book for publication. She lives in Vancouver. ~ ~ ~
The Captainís Desk
They file in, eager eyes
raking stone, shell and glass,
leaching poetic space, as Pacific rollers
pound the rocks below
They drag hungry hands along my length
- theyíre not supposed to touch -
but canít resist my cracks,
repositories of precious grunge
beyond the reach of fast-swiped dusters
They study my ligneous strength,
learn of my beach birth,
hear how I was spied and salvaged
in answer to a poetís prayer
They drift out aware wood weeps,
horses have two tails
and socks are sacred
Susan Siddeley ©
Susan Siddeley writes short stories as well as poems and is fortunate enough to be able to spend Canadian winters in Chile, where her husband works as a geologist. Susan also hosts writing workshops in Chile. Highlights are always visits to Pablo Neruda's three homes.* Her poem was written after a visit to Isla Negra in January.?For further information Google Los Parronales or email
motocad@rogers.com
CREATIVITY ROCKS!Creativity Consultant Ariadne Sawyer answers questions on creativity from people the world on The World Poetry Café Radio Show (World Poetry Radio Show) every Tuesday from 9-10 PM on Vancouver Co-op Radio (CFRO 102.7 FM).
Check us out on the web world wide by going to
www.coopradio.org or
www.urbanvancouver.com/node/2567 New book now available! The Best of Creative Rocks! Answers to Your Creative Questions. World Poetry Publishing 2006. E-Book: $5.00. Printed copy available also. Contact
ariadnes@uniserve.com.
Creativity Rocks! # 64October 10, 2006
Dear Ariadne,
Despite the name and reputation of the city I live in, we have a lot of art and culture here-way more than just casinos. I am a poet and would like to use my study of dreaming to create poems and become more creative. Any ideas?
From Tristan (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA)
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Dear Tristan,
Welcome to Creativity Rocks!
According to dream research, we spend around seven years of our life in dreaming. Everyone dreams but not all can recall their dreams. However, everyone can learn to recall more of their dreams.
One exciting program is to create poetry from your dreams and put them in a Poetic Dream Journal or a Poetic Dream book.
Here are some ideas.
- Choose to create a dream journal. Put paper and pen near your sleeping area.
- The best time for the recall of dreams is when you first awaken right after the REM cycle which is around every 90 minutes. REMS are longer toward morning so that you will have a better chance of recalling them.
- When you awaken, stay in bed, keep your eyes closed and relive as much as you can of your dream. If there are poetic lines, unusual names or anything that stands out, you can use that as a starting point and work your way through the dream. One your have re-imagined your dream, gently change your position in bed and go thorough the dream again. Then change position once again. Then open your eyes and slowly get up to write down your dream.
- Give your dream a title and put it in your dreaming journal.
- When you start working with your dreams, you may remember only short segments. It takes practice and patience to learn recall. Try to remember as much of your dream as you can and then use the as if tool. Ask yourself: ìIf I could remember this dream, what would it be? What would I call it?î
- The more you focus on dreaming, the stronger your dream memory will be. Appreciate and value your dreams in whatever form they come.
- One of my clients created a complete book of dream poetry. It was very beautiful and different than her waking poetry.
- Senoi dreamers, First Nations people and yogis are some of the most adept dreamers.
Enjoy your wonderful dreaming abilities, enhanced creativity and imagination.
This is Ariadne Sawyer for Creativity Rocks!
Ariadne is a Creativity Consultant and has worked with clients and trainees from Europe, Canada and the United States. She can be heard every Tuesday night on the radio short: Creativity Rocks! at 102.7 FM (World Poetry Café 9-10 pm).If you have a question on creativity or want private or class sessions, please email Ariadne at:
ariadnes@uniserve.com
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND DISCLAIMERI would like to thank the participating poets and writers, the proofreaders and all those who work to make this newsletter possible. A special thanks to proofreaders Raymond Parry and Tao Kimball.
While all care has been taken to ensure accuracy, no warrantee is implied or given by the Editor Anita Aguirre Nieveras and publisher, Ariadne Sawyer, the poets, the writers or the proofreaders.
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