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| Taj Mahal Review Poetry Prize winners: Complete list |
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Here are the winners of the 2021 Taj Mahal Review Poetry Prize
1st William Pruitt - The Binding Dance
2nd Ethan Goffman - I Garden Weeds
3rd Chad Norman - SIMONA: A CELEBRATION OF THE S.P.C.A.. |
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| Thomas Fortenberry - Winner of AZsacra International Poetry Award June 2015 |
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MAGNITOGORSK, Russian Federation - July 8, 2015 -- Thomas Fortenberry is winner of AZsacra International Poetry Award - For Taj Mahal Review June 2015 issue. The award is sponsored by famous Russian writer Azsacra Zarathustra. Thomas Fortenberry is an award-winning American author, editor, reviewer, and publisher. Founder of Mind Fire Press and the international literary arts journal Mindfire. He has judged many literary contests, including The Georgia Author of the Year Awards and The Robert Penn Warren Prize for Fiction. He helped found several literary companies over the years, such as Mind Fire Press, GKSAS, Third Party Productions (film and TV), and Silverline Comics. Thomas Fortenberry has a great love of mystery and incorporates it stylistically into a wide variety of genres...
About Award:
AZsacra International Poetry Award for Taj Mahal Review is given to selected poets published in Taj Mahal Review. The award is sponsored by Azsacra Zarathustra, a well known Russian philosopher and poet-mystic. He is Editorial Advisor for the international journal of poetry and art "Harvests of New Millennium" (India). He is published in India, Tibet, Japan, Germany, Norway, England, USA.
So far the award has been given to So far the award has been given to
María Cristina Azcona is an Educational Psychologist, poetess, novelist and peace researcher. Her articles, reviews, poems and short stories are continuously published in many newspapers, magazines and anthologies around Argentina, UK, India, US, and other countries. Since 1980, she works as a psychotherapist specialized in Forensic Psycho diagnosis, listed by the American Biographical Institute (ABI) in their international directory "Experts & Expertise". (US)
Albert Russo who has published worldwide over 65 books of poetry, fiction and photography, in English and in French, his two mother-tongues, is the recipient of many awards, such as The American Society of Writers Fiction Award, The British Diversity Short Story Award, several New York Poetry Forum Awards, Amelia Prose and Poetry awards and the Prix Colette, among others.
Adam Donaldson Powell (USA-Norway) has published several books previously, including novels/novellas, poetry, literary criticism and more - in USA, Norway and India. He writes in English, Spanish, Norwegian and French. Mr. Powell is also a visual artist (painter, installation artist and photographer), and a literary critic (primarily poetry books, haiku books, and books of short prose).
Ban’ya Natsuishi, master of contemporary haiku and trailblazer at home on the overflowing haiku mountain of life, offers the world - Hybrid Paradise, a collection of his recent, liberating work. In 2009, I wrote a review in a book for him, The Poetical Achievements of Ban’ya Natsuishi, understanding the honour of casting my views on such outstanding haiku. Again, I am thrilled to be involved in the process of expounding works of this incredible author, who has been a great influence in forging ahead with my own style of muki-haiku (seasonless poem technique)!
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| Kingston’s Bob Mackenzie has published a new collection of poems titled “footsteps in the garden.” |
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September 3, 2021
Kingston’s Bob Mackenzie has published a new collection of poems titled “footsteps in the garden.”
When Bob Mackenzie was contacted by a publisher about printing his 50-page manuscript — he didn’t even actually have a manuscript at the time — he was, understandably, a bit skeptical.
After the former journalist did a bit of digging about Cyberwit.net, his would-be publisher, he discovered not only was it legitimate, it was India’s largest publishing house.
And now he has the fruit that partnership bore, a poetry collection titled “footsteps in the garden.”
The 50 poems that comprise the collection span his career — he has written nine poetry collections and an equal number of novels — and he feels that they still fit together.
Unlike some, Mackenzie said he isn’t the type to sit down and write poems with a particular theme in mind.
His poems, he said, are written to be performed rather than to be printed.
“I have always been influenced by lyric poetry and by popular song lyrics,” he said, “and so my poems depend largely on rhythm and flow.”
By his calculation, Mackenzie only writes about nine poems a year on average.
“I’m very much a craftsman,” Mackenzie said, “and I work very hard on them so they say what I want them to say.”
He draws his inspiration from the outside world — there’s a “fair amount of political or activist poetry” in the new book, he said — rather than his own.
“I am not a fan of what has become known as confessional poetry (poetry about yourself), which a lot of what’s been done for the last 30 or 40 years is,” he said.
“And I can’t do that. I don’t want to do that. I see the world around me. Some bad and some good. That’s where my influence comes from. If I see an issue that needs to be addressed, whether it’s a big world issue or an issue between two people, this is what I feel like writing about.”
He was thrilled that he was approached to publish the book and to have it in hand.
“If something is going to express what my work is,” he said, “I’d like it to be this book.”
Peter Hendra
Kingston Whig-Standard
The Postmedia Network |
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| A new volume of poems signed by Constantin Severin, published in India |
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The new book of poems, "Cities of Giorgio de Chirico", written in 2020 by the Suceava poet Constantin Severin, was recently published in a bilingual edition, Romanian / English, by one of the most famous poetry publishers in India, Cyberwit , founded in 2002 by the poet Dr. Karunesh Kumar Agarwal.
The English version of the poems was written by Constantin Severin and Slim FitzGerald, a young writer from the USA.
The book has a short presentation on the back cover, signed by the great American writer Norman Lock:
"Constantin Severin's poems belonging to the" Cities of Giorgio de Chirico "collection are wonderful. I respond with my own blood and half-forgotten memories to his visceral accounts of a world in dissolution, in a change far beyond the ordinary and for which words cannot suffice, and yet, miraculously, I do so in his poems. . I am especially impressed by the evocations of an older Romania, which existed in myths and in the mythical appearances of the hummingbird, the bat, the butterflies and the grandparents. There is a quality of the legend in this series, something ancient and I think that Severin and the translator Slim FitzGerald managed to capture the ancient mind that throbs under the bodies in bags, under the plague of the Corona virus. |
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| Sylvia Forges-Ryan - Winner of AZsacra International Poetry Award - For Taj Mahal Review Dec. 2014 |
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Sylvia Forges-Ryan is internationally known for her poetry in Japanese forms, including haiku, senryu, tanka, and renku, all of which have been translated into numerous languages. Her many awards include a Grand Prix Poetry prize from the Atomic Bomb Memorial Committee, Kyoto, Japan; First and Second Prizes in the Mainichi Times Contest; The R. H. Blyth Award in Senryu from the World Haiku Association; the Harold G. Henderson First Prize; and First Place in both The Ukiah Haiku Festival Contest and in the Robert Frost Haiku Competition. In 2006 she was awarded a fellowship to study poetry in St. Petersburg, Russia.
About Award:
AZsacra International Poetry Award for Taj Mahal Review is given to selected poets published in Taj Mahal Review. The award is sponsored by Azsacra Zarathustra, a well known Russian philosopher and poet-mystic. A check worth 100 USD and a certificate is given to winning poet. He is Editorial Advisor for the international journal of poetry and art "Harvests of New Millennium" (India). He is published in India, Tibet, Japan, Germany, Norway, England, USA.
So far the award has been given to So far the award has been given to
María Cristina Azcona is an Educational Psychologist, poetess, novelist and peace researcher. Her articles, reviews, poems and short stories are continuously published in many newspapers, magazines and anthologies around Argentina, UK, India, US, and other countries. Since 1980, she works as a psychotherapist specialized in Forensic Psycho diagnosis, listed by the American Biographical Institute (ABI) in their international directory "Experts & Expertise". (US)
Albert Russo who has published worldwide over 65 books of poetry, fiction and photography, in English and in French, his two mother-tongues, is the recipient of many awards, such as The American Society of Writers Fiction Award, The British Diversity Short Story Award, several New York Poetry Forum Awards, Amelia Prose and Poetry awards and the Prix Colette, among others.
Adam Donaldson Powell (USA-Norway) has published several books previously, including novels/novellas, poetry, literary criticism and more - in USA, Norway and India. He writes in English, Spanish, Norwegian and French. Mr. Powell is also a visual artist (painter, installation artist and photographer), and a literary critic (primarily poetry books, haiku books, and books of short prose).
Ban’ya Natsuishi, master of contemporary haiku and trailblazer at home on the overflowing haiku mountain of life, offers the world - Hybrid Paradise, a collection of his recent, liberating work. In 2009, I wrote a review in a book for him, The Poetical Achievements of Ban’ya Natsuishi, understanding the honour of casting my views on such outstanding haiku. Again, I am thrilled to be involved in the process of expounding works of this incredible author, who has been a great influence in forging ahead with my own style of muki-haiku (seasonless poem technique)!
Full details at http://tajmahalreview.com/poetryaward.htm |
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