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TANAKA CHIDORA is a Creative Writing and Theories of Literature lecturer in the Department of English and Media Studies at the University of Zimbabwe.His first anthology of poetry titled Because Sadness is Beautiful? was released this year and can be accessed at African Books Collective and can be found here.http://www.africanbookscollective.com/books/because-sadness-is-beautiful. Award-winning author, David Mungoshi describes Tanaka’s poems as vivid, subversive and .scatological due to Tanaka’s affinity for metaphors that are located in subterranean regions of the human body to demystify authority.Chidora is currently working on an auto-fictional novel titled Magamba Hostels which chronicles his growing up in the ghetto of Mbare, Harare. According to him, this is a no-holds-barred memoir which reflects his intention to bridge the gap between lies and truth, to the point where the memoirist himself is lost in the labyrinth.His poems have also been published in Gourd of Consciousnes...

. REPUBLISHED FROM ATUNIS GALAXY POETRY MULTI COLORED PUPPET MASTER (TOK DALANG PANCA WARNA) Poem and translation by Siti Ruqaiyah HASHIM POSTED ON OCTOBER 10, 2019 BY AGRONSH 0 Poem by Siti Ruqaiyah HASHIM MULTI COLORED PUPPET MASTER As in old tales he didn’t die he didn’t have beginning he didn’t have ending but he is always there its not because he is magical or so influential but because he is cunning riding on all influential people he supports he is good at cheating he is good at manipulating human circumstances funds and everything around He is not very clean but the people he supports cleanse him he is not that good but made to look good by the leaders he support Oh! he loves riding on them because his name is multi colored puppet master TOK DALANG PANCA WARNA Seperti dalam hikayat lama dia tidak mati tidak ada awal tidak ada akhirnya tapi dia sentiasa ada bukan kerna saktinya atau besar kuasanya tapi kerana kebijaksanaannya ...

BIODATA OF AZIZ ISA ELKUN Aziz Isa Elkun, is a London based poet, writer and academic. He was born in EaTurkistan (Uyghur Autonomous Region, China). He is an active member of the exile Uyghur Community (www.azizisa.org/en).From September 2017 to 2021, he has served as Secretary of the PEN International Uyghur Centre. Since January 2021, he is working as a director for the Uyghur PEN Centre Online Revitalisation Project (www.uyghurpen.org). A BLOSSOMING THOUGHT The morning filled is with blossom but my soul is worrisome something is missing in this world is there anyone to be there for the Uyghurs? Even the corners of these streets are cold like a city of graveyards I can’t feel my Uyghurness anymore my tongue stutters. It’s difficult to differentiate the seasons knowing only the falling of leaves and the growing of blossom in nights of solitude I mourn, there is no dawn star I can greet. London’s sky looks like a fortress there is a street under it, it’s na...

FEMINISTANBUL POEM FESTIVAL 2019 Rokiah Binti Hashim Rokiah Binti Hashim (Siti Ruqaiyah Hashim) (Malaysia) Rokiah Hashim from Malaysia writes using the name of Siti Ruqaiyah Hashim. She graduated from University of Science in Malaysia in Theatre and Drama, then continued her studies in University of Sydney and obtained Post Graduate Diploma in Translation from Institute of Translations and Books in Malaysia. Starting from 1987 her poems and short stories were published by mainstream literature magazines and newspapers. She is also prolific in film and theatre critics and wrote since 2007 in her column in a major national daily in Malaysia and published a film critic book in 2015 titled Kritikan Filem Siti Ruqaiyah Hashim and some 250 articles. A bi-lingual anthology of her poems titled Catharsis/Katarsis in English and Bahasa Melayu was published in 2015 and Spanish in 2016. Her bi-lingual anthology together with 12 other world peace poets titled News From Strasbourg w...

BIODATA OF TARIK JACUBOVIC Tarik Jakubović was born on October 2, 1969. in Sarajevo, where he studied and graduated from the Fifth Gymnasium and the Faculty of Philosophy. He is a professor of Bosnian language and literature by profession. He works as a proofreader in El-Kalem, the publishing center of Rijaset Islamic Community. He was involved in many important projects as a proofreader. editor and promoter. During one mandate period, he was the president of the Association of Bosnian Artists. He is a long-time civil activist. He is a member of the Founding Body of the Association of Non-Governmental Organizations of the Region.He published four collections of aphorisms: "Erosion" (2014), "Zaoka po sred oka" (2015), "Butterfly Satire" (2016) and "Pencil Hedgehog" (2017). Even now he writes aphorisms and published poetry in common collections of poetry. .He also wrote literary criticism. He is the winner of the "Bosnian Stećak" wa...

BIODATA OF ADZIAH ABD AZIZ Adziah Abd Aziz is a writer and a poet and her journal and poems were presented and published internationally. Being a freelance-writer in Malaysia, Adziah Abd Aziz had also participated in a few Poetry Anthologies Books published in ASEAN countries. Her latest work reviewing 2 poem books, Between Stolen Glances and Sands of Sri Lavender by Siti Ruqaiyah Hashim were acknowledged by Campus 24/7 News UDS in Ghana and Iwabogdani.org in Belgium. Writing is her passion .'Life itself won't show the smooth path along the way so the bigger your aim the stronger you should become to believe it and striving in your whole positiveness will soon lighten up that belief POEMS BY ADZIAH ABD AZIZ IT TAKES A DAY. Human everywhere felt sweetness in life met to recognise Obstacles and struggle were set off along the path and it takes many hours, days, months, to stay in health Whilst the ruffles of pandemic still stepping forward one decided to pa...

BIODATA OF FRANCISCO MUÑOZ SOLER Spanish poet with extensive work published in countries like Spain, Mexico, United States, Italy, Portugal, India, Turkey, Perú, El Salvador and Venezuela. His works has been translated into English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Italian, Arabic, Romanian, Macedonian, Uzbek, Assamese, and Bengali. His poetry is intimate, full of fine sensitivity, impressive that invites reflection, his lyrical self offers us testimony of existing, shows us an ethical commitment to the existence of othernessin his poems of social criticism, in the search for expression . A universal poet that embraces the thirst for justice, peace and flies the flag of love.His work is also included in many anthologies and in more than a hundred literary magazines. He is the organizer of the Plenilunio Poetic Cycle of Malaga. PROSE POEMS BY FRANSISCO MUNOZ SOLER WE LIVE CONFINED BY A CONTINUOUS FIRE > HENRY MICHAUX We live e...

REPBLISHED FROM ATUNIS GALAXY POETRY INTERVIEW TATJANA DEBELJACKI VS ROKIAH HASHIM( MALAYSIA) POSTED ON MARCH 7, 2018 BY AGRONSH http://www.diogenpro.com/interview-rokiah-hashim.html . QUESTION: HOMETOWN AND GROWING UP? ANSWER: I was born in the state of Penang in the northern part of Malaysia (Malaya) in 1953. Malaya was still a British colony then. I was the third child in the family of five siblings. My dad was in the police force and mum was a teacher. She even taught me when I was 7 years old. It was not very common to have a working mother those days. But my mum came from family of educators and enjoyed a very special status as educated person and insisted on working. My dad was working in different parts of the country and moving around a lot due to the state of Emergency which was the armed uprising of Malayan Communist Party trying to take over the country from British under the pretext of independence. And he was in the battle fields in the jungle as h...

BIODATA OF DOMENICO PISANA DOMENICO PISANA was born in Modica in 1958, is the Founding President of the Caffè Letterario Quasimodo, a literary circle, which has been promoting forten years the cultural, poetical and literary valorization of the Iblean territory. After having finished his degree in Theology, he obtained a Ph.d in Moral Theology at the Accademia Alfonsiana dell’Università Lateranense and the II level Master in School Leadership. He has been a journalist since 1985 and is the Director of the online newspaper www.radiortm.it . He published: 10 poetry books, 11 volumes about literary criticism , among which there is the essay on Quasimodo Quel Nobel venuto dal Sud – Salvatore Quasimodo tra gloria ed oblio (2006), 11 theological and ethical texts , among which the book Sulla tua parola getterò le reti (1999), published by Edizioni San Paolo, stands out and were fully translated in Polish and Spanish language, historical and political volumes. Domenico Pisana’s poetry ...

REPUBLISHED FROM ATUNIS GALAXY POETRY PEJUANG KEBEBASAN LIBYA (A LIBYAN FREEDOM FIGHTER) – Omar Mukhtar Translated INTO MALAY LANGUAGE by SITI RUQAIYAH HASHIM. POSTED ON AUGUST 22, 2019 BY AGRONSH BIODATA OF OMAR MUKHTAR . Omar Mukhtar was born on 20th August 1858 in Eastern Libya. He was just a Quran teacher when Italian forces brutally invaded Libya and he formed a strong militia group resisting them in the 1930s. He was captured and hanged to death in the public on 16th September 1931.The legendary freedom fighter was popularly known as ‘The Lion of The Desert’ and was also respected by his captors for his piousness and spiritual strength while in prison at the age of 73. Omar Mukhtar also fought against French colonization of Chad, and Italo-Turkish War amonst others. He was also a good poet. A LIBYAN FREEDOM FIGHTER (Translated from Arabic written while in prison) My only illness is being at al Agailla camp, the imprisonment of my tribe and the long way fro...

RADWA ASHOUR Radwa Ashour was born in El-Manial[2] to Mustafa Ashour, a lawyer and literature enthusiast, and Mai Azzam, a poet and an artist. She graduated from Cairo University with a BA degree in 1967. In 1972, she received her MA in Comprehensive Literature from the same university. In 1975, Ashour graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a PhD in African American Literature.[3] Her dissertation was entitled The search for a Black poetics: a study of Afro-American critical writings.[4] While preparing for her PhD, Ashour was remarked as the first doctoral candidate in English who studied the literature of the African-American.[5] She taught at Ain Shams University, Cairo. Between 1969 and 1980, Ashour's mainly focused on studying, raising up her son and playing an active role as an activist. She married Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti in 1970. She gave birth to her son, poet Tamim al-Barghouti, in 1977. In that same year, Ashour's husband, Mourid B...

BIODATA OF ZHANG ZHI ZHANG Zhi, born in Sichuan province in 1965, is an important poet, critic and translator in contemporary China. His pen name is Diablo, English name is Arthur ZHANG,.He has Phd in literature. He is the current President of the International Poetry Translation and Research Centre, executive editor of Rendition of International Poetry Quarterly(multilingual), editor-in-chief of the English edition of World Poetry Yearbook. He began to publish his literary and translation works since 1986. Some of his literary works have been translated into more than thirty foreign languages. He won poetry prizes from Greece, Brazil, America, Israel, France, India, Italy, Austria, Lebanon, Macedonia, Kosovo, and Japan.His main works include poetry collections such as RECEITA (Portuguese-English-Chinese), SELECTED POEMS OF DIABLO (English), POETRY BY ZHANG ZHI (German-English-Portuguese), Selected Poems of Diablo (Chinese-English), and A Jigsaw Picture of the World (Albanian), خُص...

BIOGRAPHY OF SLAVA BOZICEVIC Born: January 1937 in Zagreb, Croatia…. Education: Medicine. Journalism, ecological-medicine (miljőmedicin studie i Sweden)… Work: In all professions related to this fields in Croatia, and 30 years in Sweden. Had more than 350 exibitions with cultural themes (folk-ethno-traditions in the world), Women in war and freedom. Peace,Lecturer human rights, Health and ecological themes in Scandinavia, Serbia and Croatia. Her poems been translated into Swedish, English, German, Serbian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Italian and Romany Chib language. She participated in national and international festivals of poetry and short stories, prosa. Author of 5 poety books: 2 published in Sweden and 3 in Croatian.Received many awards for charity activities from UNm, Unicef, Peace and human rights POEMS BY SLAVA BOZICEVIC THE SILENCE The silence is the ceremony when the snow falls… Then it is the quietest. The silence is full of the universe energy and it pulsat...

Thank you very much Giorgio Moio for translating my poem into Italian and including it in his anthology TRA PAROLE E IMMAGINI published by Frequenze Poetiche. Excerpts of criticisms on my poems by Adziah Abd Aziz and Lucilla Trapazzo were also included together with the poem NESSUM MIRRAGIO on page 105.Thank you Adziah and Lucilla from the bottom of my heart.Its very much appreciated

BIODATA OF AGRON SHELE Agron Shele was born in October 7th, 1972, in the Village of Leskaj, city of Permet, Albania. Is the author of the following literary works: “The Steps of Clara” (Novel), “Beyond a grey curtain” (Novel), “Wrong Image” (Novel) , “Innocent Passage” (Poetry), Whiste stones ( poetry) RIME SPARSE -Il suono di due voci poetiche del Mediterraneo (Poesie di Agron Shele e Claudia Piccinno), La mia Musa (“Libri di-versi in diversi libri” – Italy, 2020); Murmure d’ un autre monde (poetry), Klisania, Queen of the lake (Short story) and “Ese-I and Ese-II) ” . Mr. Shele is also the coordinator of International Anthologies: “Open Lane- 1,” “Pegasiada , Open Lane- 2 , ATUNIS magazine ( Nr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 )” and Atunis Galaxy Antholgy 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022. He is winner of some international literary prizes. Is a member of the Albanian Association of Writers, member of the World Writers Association, in Ohio, United States, Poetas del Mundo, WPS, Unione wor...