Friday, December 4, 2020

GAS 10: Poetry, Art and Music

by Soheyl Dahi

 GAS 10 Features:

Gabor G. Gyukicspoet, jazz poet, literary translator born in Budapest. He is the author of 1 book of original prose, 9 books of original poetry, 6 in Hungarian, 2 in English, 1 in Arabic, 1 in Bulgarian, 1 in Czech, and 13 books of translations including A Transparent Lion, selected poetry of Attila József and Swimming in the Ground a Contemporary Hungarian Poetry (in English, both with co-translator Michael Castro) and an anthology of North American Indigenous poets in Hungarian titled Medvefelhő a város felett. He is Hungary Nation Beat Poet Laureate (Lifetime).


Michael Rothenberg is poet, artist, and co-founder of 100 Thousand Poets for Change (100tpc.org) and the “Read A Poem To A Child" initiative. His most recent books of poetry include Drawing The Shade (Dos Madres Press, 2016), The Pillars (Contagion Press, 2020), and I Murdered Elvis (Alien Buddha Press, 2020). He lives in Tallahassee, Florida where he is currently Florida State University Libraries Poet in Residence.


Joshua Michael Stewart is a poet and musician. His books, Break Every String, and The Bastard Children of Dharma Bums and albums, Three Meditations and Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy can all be found at Amazon and elsewhere.


Angelina Bong is a poet and visual artist. She represented Malaysia at the 3rd Delphic Games 2009, South Korea in Poetry. Since then, she has read in ten countries with poems translated into six languages. Her recent poem wins the Poetry-Adult category of Georgetown Literary Festival’s ‘Wake Me Up When This Is Over’ contest. She chirps on social media at @swakgel.


Emocat is the synthwave project started by Heidi Blakeslee in 2020.  It is music for cats and cat people made by a cat person.  

More music by Emocat can be found for free on www.Soundcloud.com under Emocat2380.


Soheyl Dahi has lived in San Francisco since 1979. He paints and writes every day when he is not reading or publishing poetry (Sore Dove Press).


Pankhuri Sinha is a bilingual poet and story writer from India. Two books of poems published in English, two collections of stories published in Hindi, and five collections of poem published in Hindi. She has won many prestigious, national-international awards, has been translated in over twenty one languages. After doing her BA from Delhi University, and PG diploma in Journalism, from Symbiosis Pune, Pankhuri did her Master’s in history from SUNY Buffalo, and has an unfinished Phd from the University of Calgary, Canada. 


Tali Cohen Shabtai is bilingual poet from Jerusalem, Israel. She has three poetry books: Purple Diluted in a Black’s Thick, (bilingual 2007), Protest (bilingual 2012) and Nine Years From You (2018). Her work has been translated into many languages.


Ken Clinger is a composer, musician and photographer living in Pennsylvania.  His music is in the intro and outdo of GAS shows. His music often accompanies slide shows and poetry on GAS.  You can download his music from many sites including https://kenclinger.bandcamp/music


Belinda Subraman, your host, has been writing and publishing a long time.  Over the years she has edited and published books and magazines, podcast internet radio shows, blogs and recorded with various musicians.  Her main current project is this GAS video arts show and its accompanying blog: GAS:  Poetry, Art and Music. 

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