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Before March 7, 2009, the domain name Poetry.com was owned by New Catalyst Fund (NCF). [citation needed] The site was previously run by a Maryland-based company called The International Library of Poetry, also known as the International Society of Poets and the International Poetry Hall of Fame. [1]
Kabura Zakama (born 11 May 1964) is a Nigerian poet, veterinarian and an international development and humanitarian practitioner. His collection of poems, The Man Lived won the 1999 Association of Nigerian Authors ANA Poetry Prize. [1] He has identified Birago Diop, Lenrie Peters, Tanure Ojaide and Kwesi Brew as the key influences on his poetry ...
He was the co-founder of the literary journals To Dentro (1978), Nisos – Music and Poetry (1983) and Critique and Texts (1984). Since 1986 he has published the literary journal Planodion, while in April 2010 he created and has since run a website for short stories called Bonsai Stories.
A winner of the Jovellanos International Poetry Prize in 2015 for one of her poems, Chãk, and a graduate in chemical engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology, Jodeyri has published several works, including six poetry collections, a collection of short stories and an anthology of her poems. Her articles and interviews have ...
In 2000 she came third in the New Zealand Poetry Society's International Poetry Competition for her poem "Observations Made in Passing", [10] [11] and in 2008 was highly commended in an annual poetry competition run by the journal Bravado. [12] Her 2011 collection Trace Fossils was runner-up for the Kathleen Grattan Award. [2]
He received both the Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships in 1983, [4] and was a winner of the 1994 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, [4] the Bussa Award, the Casa de las Américas Prize for poetry, [4] and the 1999 Charity Randall Citation for Performance and Written Poetry from the International Poetry Forum. [6]
At My Ease: Uncollected Poems of the Fifties and Sixties (1998) I Have a Name (1996) The End Game and Other Stories (1996) Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934-1994 (1994) Despite the Plainness of the Day: Love Poems (1991) Shadowing the Ground (1991) If We Knew (Polymorph Editions, 1991) New and Collected Poems, 1970-1985 (1986) Leaving ...
A long time poetry editor at Words Without Borders, [7] and Poetry International, [8] he has also edited several anthologies of poetry from around the world, including Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (HarperCollins), [9] which is widely used in classrooms all over the country.