Biographies of Award Winners for ISSUE-XV March 2012
The Enchanting Poet Award Winner-Roger Humes
Roger Humes is a poet, editor and computer graphic artist from Claremont, California. He is the Founder Director of The Other Voices International Project and the International Poetry Editor for Harvest International, an annual arts and literature magazine. His works have been featured in Arabesques Review, Sentinel Poetry magazine, Hudson View, Art Arena, Poetic Diversity and many others. He has released a chapbook, there sings no bird.
Editor's Choice Award Winner-Joan McNerney
Joan McNerney was born in Brooklyn, New York and now resides in Ravena, a town outside of Albany, New York. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from the Board of Regents, New York State Excelsior University. Most of her professional background has been spent in the advertising business. Her poetry has been included in numerous literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Blueline, 63 channels, Spectrum, and three Bright Spring Press Anthologies. She was recently nominated for “Best of the Net” 2011. Four of her books have been published by fine small literary presses. She has recited her work at the National Arts Club, Russell Sage College, McNay Art Institute and other distinguished venues. A recent reading was sponsored by the American Academy of Poetry.
Biographies of Award Winners for ISSUE-XVI July 2012
The Enchanting Poet Award Winner-Perie Longo
Perie Longo, PhD, is Poet Laureate Emerita of Santa Barbara, California (2007-09), a teacher through the California Poets in the Schools since 1986, the annual Santa Barbara Writers Conference, and teaches poetry privately. Also a psychotherapist, she integrates poetry with her practice. In 2005 she was invited by the University of Kuwait to speak about the power of poetry for healing and to give workshops to several different groups and hospitals on the subject. She works with Sanctuary Psychiatric Centers, and Hospice of Santa Barbara.
She has authored three books of poetry, The Privacy of Wind, Milking the Earth and With Nothing behind but Sky: a journey through grief. Her poems have been published in numerous journals including Atlanta Review, California Quarterly, The Connecticut Review, The Prairie Schooner, International Poetry Review, Nimrod, Passager, The Paterson Review, Quercus Review, Rattle, Studia Mystica, and several anthologies.
A past president of the National Association for Poetry Therapy, she is a long-time mentor teacher for certification in this field. In 1998 she received their “Outstanding Achievement Award.” In 1999 she was the keynote speaker for their annual conference, giving a talk titled “Gathered Around the Heart of the Fire” and in 2004 she was given the “Distinguished Service Award.” She has published several articles on the effectiveness of Poetry Therapy in The Journal of Poetry Therapy and The Therapist. Recently she received a Woman of Achievement Award from the Association of Women in Communication-Santa Barbara Chapter.
She has authored three books of poetry, The Privacy of Wind, Milking the Earth and With Nothing behind but Sky: a journey through grief. Her poems have been published in numerous journals including Atlanta Review, California Quarterly, The Connecticut Review, The Prairie Schooner, International Poetry Review, Nimrod, Passager, The Paterson Review, Quercus Review, Rattle, Studia Mystica, and several anthologies.
A past president of the National Association for Poetry Therapy, she is a long-time mentor teacher for certification in this field. In 1998 she received their “Outstanding Achievement Award.” In 1999 she was the keynote speaker for their annual conference, giving a talk titled “Gathered Around the Heart of the Fire” and in 2004 she was given the “Distinguished Service Award.” She has published several articles on the effectiveness of Poetry Therapy in The Journal of Poetry Therapy and The Therapist. Recently she received a Woman of Achievement Award from the Association of Women in Communication-Santa Barbara Chapter.
Editor's Choice Award Winner- Hélène Cardona
Hélène Cardona is a citizen of the United States, France and Spain. She is a poet, actor, translator and teacher. She attended Hamilton College, New York, where she also taught French and Spanish, and the Sorbonne, Paris, where she wrote her thesis on Henry James for her Master’s in American Literature. She writes and translates in English, French and Spanish and is also fluent in German, Italian and Greek.
She worked as a translator/interpreter for the Canadian Embassy and the French Chamber of Commerce and taught at the Ecole Bilingue (Paris) and LMU (Los Angeles).
She is the author of the bilingual poetry collections Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry, 2013), Life in Suspension (forthcoming Tupelo Press), and The Astonished Universe (Red Hen Press, 2006).
Her poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Mythic Passages, The American Center for Artists, Barnwood Mag, Askew, Spillway, Mediterranean Poetry, qarrtsiluni, Pirene’s Fountain, Maintenant 5: a Dada Poetry Journal, From the Fishouse, THRUSH Poetry Journal, Maintenant 6, Poetry International, The Warwick Review, Washington Square and in the anthologies Illuminations: Expressions of the Spiritual Experience (Celestial Arts, 2006) and Dogs Singing (Salmon Poetry, 2011).
Hélène translated the Lawrence Bridges film Muse of Fire for the NEA, What We Carry by Dorianne Laux, and the poetry of her father José Manuel Cardona, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Aloysius Bertrand and Jean-Claude Renard into English.
She received fellowships from the DAAD and the University of Baeza, Andalusia.
She worked as a translator/interpreter for the Canadian Embassy and the French Chamber of Commerce and taught at the Ecole Bilingue (Paris) and LMU (Los Angeles).
She is the author of the bilingual poetry collections Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry, 2013), Life in Suspension (forthcoming Tupelo Press), and The Astonished Universe (Red Hen Press, 2006).
Her poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Mythic Passages, The American Center for Artists, Barnwood Mag, Askew, Spillway, Mediterranean Poetry, qarrtsiluni, Pirene’s Fountain, Maintenant 5: a Dada Poetry Journal, From the Fishouse, THRUSH Poetry Journal, Maintenant 6, Poetry International, The Warwick Review, Washington Square and in the anthologies Illuminations: Expressions of the Spiritual Experience (Celestial Arts, 2006) and Dogs Singing (Salmon Poetry, 2011).
Hélène translated the Lawrence Bridges film Muse of Fire for the NEA, What We Carry by Dorianne Laux, and the poetry of her father José Manuel Cardona, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Aloysius Bertrand and Jean-Claude Renard into English.
She received fellowships from the DAAD and the University of Baeza, Andalusia.
Biographies of Award Winners for ISSUE-XVII November 2012
The Enchanting Poet Award Winner-Sayed Gouda
Sayed Gouda (b. 1968, Cairo) is an Egyptian poet, novelist and translator. He majored in the Chinese language. Sayed Gouda won a first prize of poetry in 1990 before he migrated to Hong Kong in 1992. His works and translations have appeared in Arabic, English, Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Macedonian, Uzbek, Thai and Mongolian. He has translated hundreds of poems from and into Arabic, Chinese and English, which have already been published in several periodicals in Egypt, China and Hong Kong. Currently he is the editor of a literary website called Nadwah in five languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French and German. Sayed Gouda has organized a monthly literary salon in Hong Kong since April 2004. He has been invited to participate in many international poetry festivals around the world like Man Hong Kong Literary Festival in Hong Kong (2002–2007), International Poetry Festival of Cairo in Egypt (2007, 2009), Qinghai International Poetry Festival in China (2007 & 2011), Struga Poetry Evenings in Macedonia (2009) and so on.
Published works: The Smoke of Love – a book of Arabic poetry published in Cairo in 1990; The Sad Questions of Cassandra – a book of Arabic poetry published in Cairo in 2005; Between a Broken Dream and Hope – a book of Arabic poetry published in Cairo in 2005; Once Upon a Time in Cairo – English novel published in Hong Kong in 2006; Bottle of Glue – a collection of poems translated from Arabic into Chinese and English published in Hong Kong in 2007; Prophet of the Poets – a collection of poems translated in Macedonian language published in Macedonia in 2008; Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry translated in English and Chinese (upcoming publication); Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry translated in Arabic (upcoming publication).
Published works: The Smoke of Love – a book of Arabic poetry published in Cairo in 1990; The Sad Questions of Cassandra – a book of Arabic poetry published in Cairo in 2005; Between a Broken Dream and Hope – a book of Arabic poetry published in Cairo in 2005; Once Upon a Time in Cairo – English novel published in Hong Kong in 2006; Bottle of Glue – a collection of poems translated from Arabic into Chinese and English published in Hong Kong in 2007; Prophet of the Poets – a collection of poems translated in Macedonian language published in Macedonia in 2008; Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry translated in English and Chinese (upcoming publication); Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry translated in Arabic (upcoming publication).
Editor's Choice Award Winner-Sllave Gjorgjo Dimoski
Sllave Gjorgjo Dimoski is an award-winning Macedonian poet and essayist, born 1959 in Velestovo, near Ohrid. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Skopje. He is president of the Managing Board of the international poetry festival Struga Poetry Evenings.
Published poetry collections: Engravings (1979); Project (1982); Cold Urge (1985); The Last Manuscripts (1988); By-way (1991); Subjects and Arguments (1994); Anabasis (1994); Forms of Passion (1999); Dark Place (2000); Words and Water (2001); Measurer of Words (2007); Holy Body (2010).
His poetry is presented in many anthologies and his works are translated into several languages.
Awards include Miladinov Brothers for best Macedonian poetry book, European Prize for Poetry by Romanian Foundation Orient-Occident, Golden Autumn - Sergei Esenin by Moscow organization of Russian Writers Association etc.
Published poetry collections: Engravings (1979); Project (1982); Cold Urge (1985); The Last Manuscripts (1988); By-way (1991); Subjects and Arguments (1994); Anabasis (1994); Forms of Passion (1999); Dark Place (2000); Words and Water (2001); Measurer of Words (2007); Holy Body (2010).
His poetry is presented in many anthologies and his works are translated into several languages.
Awards include Miladinov Brothers for best Macedonian poetry book, European Prize for Poetry by Romanian Foundation Orient-Occident, Golden Autumn - Sergei Esenin by Moscow organization of Russian Writers Association etc.
