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Event: 2014 West Coast Tagore Festival

You’re invited to theWest Coast Tagore FestivalSeptember 5th and 6th 2014Richmond, British Columbia Carla Shafer, friend and host to Bellingham’s Chuckanut Sandstone Writers Theater, and I have been invited to read poems at this event.Last year I was moved by the presentation of Rabindranath Tagore’s life, (b. 7 May 1861 – d. 7 August 1941). TheContinueContinue reading “Event: 2014 West Coast Tagore Festival”

Event: Tagore Festival

West Coast Tagore Festival 2013Tagore, b.May 7, 1861- d.August 7 1941, Indian poet, short-story writer, song composer, novelist, playwright, essayist, and painter. Tagore was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region’s literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse”, he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and theContinueContinue reading “Event: Tagore Festival”