(June 2004) Page 2
(June 2004) Page 2
 ROBIN OUZMAN HISLOP
Bachelor in Arts (Hns). Philosophy & Religion. Manchester University. Resident at Pakistan, Lahore. Studies at Punjab University, New Campus, Lahore: Sufism (Tasawuf), Jalal-U-Din Rumi & Ibn Arabi. Sheffield University: Spanish & Latin American Cultural Studies. Resident in Spain from 1985 until December 1998 (Madrid and Salamanca): Resident at Salamanca, 1996-98: English Language teacher and translator for “El Ateneo”. Organisation of bilingual poetry readings at Casa do Brasil, Madrid Complutense University, Escuela Oficial de Idiomas, (Madrid Official School of Languages), Cafés Manuela and Magerit, O’Connors Pub, Madrid, El Ateneo and El Corrillo in Salamanca.
Translations of poetry include 1927 Spanish Generation Poets: selections of F.G. Lorca, Luis Cernuda, Rafael Alberti, M. Altolaguirre, Miguel Hernandez and Vicente Aleixandre’s poems; and the Chilean poet Andres Fisher, Las Diosas Blancas an Anthology edited Ramon Buenaventura, an anthology of poetry Alchemy by Tessa Duncan from Spanish and James Stephens Fairy Stories into Spanish have been more recent activities. I hope to feature these, as well as introducing new translations with originals on my web page soon to be opened IBIS. I am interested in revivalist movements in modern poetry.
Appeared in Dawn Millenium Anthology published by Kedco Studios & this year appeared in their Crystal Dawn Anthology. Frequently featured in the E zines Poetry Life and Times, Autumn Leaves, Sonnetto Poesia, Canadian Zen Haiku, appeared on Artvilla, Poetry Repairs, the Celtic Pagan Poetry Pages Journal, as featured poet in the Beltane edition & Ancient Dawn E zines amongst others. This year will publish own anthology Blue Corn which will incorporate performance, on web cam and voice recital with Kedco Studios. Mystic East publishers are now in process of editing my anthology After the Cave, the Comet for publication later this year, as well as their Mystic East Anthology of poets, where further work is due to appear, and am pleased to announce our forthcoming New Pleiades Anthology 2005, to be published by Kedco Studios, which will feature our own New Pleiades poetry list of international poets, where I am a co editor & list moderator.
http:www.authorsden.com/robinouzmanhislop
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3 Sonnets © Robin Ouzman Hislop |
 RICHARD VALLANCE About Richard Vallance. Born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, March 11th., 1945, Richard Vallance, H.B.A., M.L.S, is fluently bilingual in English and French, and reads Spanish and Italian, ancient Greek and Latin well. He wrote his first major poem at the age of 18, in 1963. For years, Richard wrote mainly in the field of Library and Information Science. At Chicago, in October, 1983, he won the $1,000 Data Courier Award for Excellence in Online Published Papers. Poetry: Richard has composed over 2,500 poems. In 1998, he published his first full book of poetry, A Quilt of Sonnets: Forty Four Familiar Poems, Ottawa: Providence Road Press, © 1998. 56 pp. ISBN 1-896243-07-x. In February, 2001, Richard founded his first poetry discussion group, Describe Adonis, for sonneteers. All of Richard's poetry groups have now been transferred to Smartgroups (UK), under the banner The New Pleiades = la nouvelle Pléiade. Richard's world class poetry page is Poesie’s laissez-faire Faire Foire, which showcases over 40 poets worldwide. PLFFF features sonnets, haiku, contemporary and historical poetry, and grants the monthly Prix laissez-faire Faire Foire Award . PLFFF is a member of Phenomenal Men of The Web: Arts & Humanities. Richard is the Editor of 3 Canadian poetry E-Zines, accessible here, Poetry Journals. Since September, 2001, Richard has been the poetry reviewer for Poetry Life and Times, which features the monthly Vallance Review. He is also regular contributor to the same E-Zine. Richard is also often featured with the U.S. Amerindian E-Zine, Autumn Leaves and in the US print poetry journal, The Neovictorian/Cochlea (Madison, Wisconsin). CD-ROM Books: 1. 10 of Richard's poems were included in Millennium Dawn, Kedco Studios Press, Las Vegas, NV, © 2002 ISBN 1-878431-38-2. CONTACT: Richard Vallance (Coolgoose.ca) |
Are We the Light of the World? Tetralogy Is Like the Soul? © Richard Vallance May 19 2004My Carousel Home is:
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Jan Sand in New York
JAN SAND, poet and illustrator from New York (now residing in Helsinki), is a regular contributor to Poetry Life & Times and the newsgroup alt.arts.poetry.comments. A great deal of his work is about animals, or science fiction. Recently Jan was published by Kedco Studios Artist Profile Press, on their latest CD ROM e-book, "A Way With Words (Poetry Real and Surreal), which also includes complete books by Dale Houstman, Sara L. Russell and Keith Gabriel Hendricks. Jan's illustrated book on the CD is called "Wild Figments And Odd Conjectures", which is also sold separately, in a limited-edition "single" CD.
To see an illustrated article about Jan's poems, visit the November '98 issue of Poetry Life & Times, and scroll down past the Editor's Letter. He also has his own poetry pages on Charlotte's Web at Artvilla.
In the interest of simplicity I must admit It is only with complicity And some wit That I continue to exist. With baggages of improbables Escorted by my genes Conformed to achievables By biologic means I am ensured That what endures Nicely lured Is what conjures This me, complete, Within this mass, complex, Of dynamic mobile meat. The brain, I should explain, Contains a multitude of functions Which seem, at first, insane. But, employing synapse junctions That soon sort out Its mental clout In manners rightly rational Reining in The hormone din To utilize the passional To enforce What most endorse As normal for humanity The right facade To accolade Qualities of urbanity. PREDATOR © Jan Sand
My rabbit died about a week ago. A gentle animal who lived in trust That my care for her would sustain and grow. I did all those things I could, those I must. On both our parts it took time and concern. We grew to know each other steadily. She had much to teach, I had much to learn, So that, at the end, we were family. The vet displayed her x-rays with a frown. “Your rabbit has no time at all.”, She said. The vet advised that she be quick put down. I took her home. In a week she was dead. So now, my instinct searches everywhere. I hunt the world for someone I could care. WHITE THOUGHTS © Jan Sand
Two weeks ago the dandelions Shook their golden heads in warm spring wind. They spread like yellow stars across green skies Or glowing souls, in green hell, who’ve sinned. Their time is short, bright tufts soon grow old. They nod now sleepily. Thoughts of long gone days Have turned their pates to ghostly white. The bald heads left behind by displays Of clouds of future progenies now leapt From parental heads Athena-like in multitudes. My head is likewise white, each concept Now stands poised to launch itself to space. But, with luck my hair will remain. Perhaps my teeth - I’d prefer that case. DISMISSIVE DEVICES © Jan Sand
By Ford’s four wheeled decree A million horses were set free To be auctioned, pensioned, butchered, Or wander byways aimlessly. Engines engineered can be made To drive anything, from a spade To a ship or flying machine Or mayhap a brain, I’m afraid. The way the clever things now are growing They will soon invade the many ways of knowing. Smug, they’ll sit click in every corner And, like the horse, we'll soon all be going.
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