Jan 20/09--Ibrahim Honjo featured on World Poetry Café Radio

At 9:00 PM on Tuesday, January 20th, tune in to the World Poetry Café Radio Show, when host Ariadne Sawyer welcomes poet Ibrahim Honjo!

IBRAHIM HONJO is a sculptor, painter, poet-writer and photographer who was born in Yugoslavia and worked as an economist, journalist, editor-in-chief, and publisher. He arrived in Vancouver in 1995, and has authored nine poetry books — with the last two (Do Not Write This Down and Roots In The Stone, 2006 and 2008) published in both English and Serbo-Croatian. His poetry has been translated in Korean, Slovenian, and German.

Ibrahim has received several prizes for his poetry, and has been featured in many magazines, newspapers, and radio stations in Yugoslavia and Canada, as well as several blogs on the Internet. He is an active member of several poetry groups, including the World Poetry Reading Series. He is the founder and host of Poetry Planet, which meets at the Port Moody Public Library (100 Newport Drive) on the third Monday of each month, at 7:00 PM.

You can read more about Ibrahim on his website, at www.freewebs.com/honjo.

Also featured on tonight's programme is a special e-poem on Love by Mohit Gvalani from Mumbai, India. This poem will be available for public viewing at The Many Faces of Love display, February 20–27, at the Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver BC, Canada.

The World Poetry Café Radio Show can be heard in the Greater Vancouver area on 102.7 FM, or on the internet, at Vancouver Co-op Radio, www.coopradio.org. For more information about the show, please contact Ariadne Sawyer, at ariadnes@uniserve.com.

Our co-founder and regular host of the radio programme, Alejandro Mujica-Olea, is currently reading and travelling in Brazil and Chile. Our best wishes to Alejandro on his trip.