Vancouver Tagore Society – shannon p. laws

Bong Ja Ahn’s Paper Boat

This Labor Day Weekend I was up in Vancouver, Canada for a book launch “Poet and the Paper Boat” by Korean poet Bong Ja Ahn. The book is the second in her English-Korean Poetry Anthology. This was a beautiful event held at a community center, upstairs in a corner room. Large windows and balcony doorsContinueContinue reading “Bong Ja Ahn’s Paper Boat”

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”