It was just three guys in the beginning, but fifteen years later Ovi magazine has inspired dozens of people from all around the world to volunteer their time and creativity towards this ever-growing project.
The list of all of our contributors, their photo, bio and chosen web link can be found below, so take some time to become acquainted with those who help us make Ovi possible.
Editorial Team
Over ten years in Finland has failed to dent my sense of humour, although it has altered my perception of what it is to be an Englishman. There are times I wonder just who I am and what I am doing, and then my daughters come running to me and I forget all about those thoughts. There’s much more to me, but I prefer to save that for our second date…
Multipublished writer, cartoonist and illustrator; born and grew up in a picturesque neighbourhood on the mountainside of Hymettus in Athens, Greece. Then his life took him to Berlin, Germany and to London, UK for studies. After a brief stay in Yorkshire he moved his life to Paris, France while working in Tokyo, Japan and in Cape Town, South Africa. In the last 25 years he has become permanent Scandinavian resident and recently, in his glorious sixth decade, he moved to a scenic village in South-Central Sweden.
Contributors
A Syrian who lives in Finland. Almost schizophrenic. Almost surreal. Definitely poetic. And all that only in the title of one of his poems; “Nothing between me and here”
A Portuguese engineer who lives in Lisbon and is a habitual visitor of Finland. He blogs about decentralization and environmental issues among other themes.“ Don’t miss Oravivuori, 61°55’36”N – 25°32’01”E” “, he suggests.
Manish Kumar Arora. K.P. Astrologer, Tarot Reader, Numerologist & Vastu Consultant at Self Employed. Self Employed. West Delhi, Delhi, India.
Lilian Badani. A dreamer. Rock, blues, jazz and …that’s it. Rarely falling in love but it lasts for long. Also getting angry rarely though when it happens it is a big bang boom!
Λίλιαν Μπαντάνη. Ονειροπόλα, ροκ, μπλουζ, τζαζ και τελειώσαμε. Ερωτεύομαι σπάνια, αλλά πολύ και με μεγάλη διάρκεια. Θυμώνω επίσης σπάνια, αλλά όταν τα παίρνω στο κρανίο, τραβάω μια κόκκινη γραμμή και δεν γυρίζω πίσω το κεφάλι μου, ούτε για να φτύσω.
Former legal practitioner and the president of Young Lawyers Association of BiH Bar (late ‘80s). Former MFA official and career diplomat (early ‘90s). Research Fellow at the Institute for Modern Political-history analyses, Dr. Bruno Kreisky Foundation; Legal and Political Advisor for CEE at the Vienna-based Political Academy, Dr. Karl Renner (mid 1990s).
Later, he served as a Senior Legal Officer and Permanent Representative to the UN Office in Vienna (ICMPD Liaison unit with Governments and IOs) at the Vienna based HQ of the Intergovernmental Organization ICMPD (International Centre for Migration Policy Development).
Last ten years, attached to the IMC University, Department of Export EU–NAFTA–ASEAN, he serves as a Chairman for the Intl. Law and Global Pol. Studies. He is in the scientific committee of several European and overseas think-tanks, either a guest-columnist or the Editorial Board member of newspapers, journals and magazines such as the NY-based GHIR (Geopolitics, History, Intl. Relations), Canada-based GoE (Geopolitics of Energy) or Jakarta-based Seputar Media.
Prof. Bajrektarevic is the author of dozens ILAW/JHA– and SD–related presentations, publications, speeches, seminars, research colloquiums as well as of numerous public events (round tables and study trips, etc.). He lives in Vienna, Austria.
Shola Balogun, playwright, poet and writer whose creative Muse is the Mystic ladder of Yoruba world and Judeo-Christian thoughts, is from Yoruba,southwestern Nigeria. He received his Masters Degree in Theatre Arts from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, specializing in Literary and Dramatic Criticism.
He was the winner of the First Educare Trust’s Olaudah Equiano Poetry Prize (2002) and the Festival of Peace Poetry Award (2005) organized by the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan. He is the author of a collection of poetry, The Cornwoman of Jurare and Other Poems (2007). His books The Wrestling of Jacob, Praying Dangerously: the Cry of Blind Bartimaeus, and Death and Suicide In Selected African Plays, are available at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Shola-Balogun/e/B00LPRQU10 and select bookstores. His play, Egue Eghae, is ready for the stage. Shola Balogun also writes stories for children. His Yoruba background and encounter at the age of 21 with the poetry of John Donne and William Shakespeare influenced his creative writing.
David Barger is the publisher and editor of Titanium Bound Writings (www.titaniumboundwritings.com). He is the author of “Bottled Up” (An Ovi Projects Book Publication 2010). His poetry has been published in Connotation Press, Word Riot, Haiku Ramblings, Word Salad Poetry Magazine, Ovi Magazine, Zylophone, and Nebo. He enjoys spending time with family and his two Boxer dogs
Eva Biaudet has been a Member of Finland’s Parliament since March 1991, she is the former Minister of Health and Social Services and is a member of the Swedish People’s Party.
Neil Burlington studied art at Georgian College in Barrie Ontario Canada. He is currently working on a comic book called ‘Wilderness’ . A page from the book was recently added to How-To-Draw-Funny-Cartoons.com. His cartoon Sunny Skies appears at: http://www.sunnyskiescomic.blogspot.com and is updated regularly. His other interests include writing and science fiction. Favourite food? Sushi!
Tony Butcher lives, works and breathes in London, England. Following the completion of an Economics Degree, he found his dream job as a STIR Trader in the City of London, the heart of the world’s financial system. He studies the world stock and bond markets on a daily basis, while monitoring world economic and political events which affect his markets.
He is a poet, a writer, and a versatile artist. He was born in 1949 in Bor. He graduated as an Architect – Designer of Industry from The Fine Arts Academy of State in Istanbul. The Reward of Eagerness was given by the Radio NPS of Holland in 1999 and the Reward of Palmares was given by the Organization of Les Amis de Thalie in France to him. He works in the Center of Adult Education (AFPA) at present.
Mbizo Chirasha was born in 1978 in Zvishavane District in Zimbabwe, and was inspired by his social surroundings at a young age. As a young man, Mbizo quickly gained prominence as a performing poet and writer both in Zimbabwe and internationally. The themes of his poetry include children’s rights, politics, social lives, gender issues, praise and protest, culture and African pride. Mbizo’s poems can be read in print, but are even more powerful when performed by the dynamic poet himself. With a vision of using his poetry to promote peace, healing, stability, and cultural freedom, Mbizo is a poet with commitment, talent, and a desire to perform whenever and wherever he can.
Peace Lines was born in the summer of 1993, from the international convoy Mir Sada (Peace Now) trying to interrupt the war in Bosnia. 2000 in Split (Poles, Americans, Italians, Greeks, French and Dutch people, Spaniards, Swedes, Buddhist monks…), we were only a thousand left at the Prozor lake (120 vehicles), and around sixty to make it, from Gornji-Vakuf to starving Sarajevo, cut off from the world for fifteen months then. How to accept the famine in Sarajevo besieged by the Serbs, in Novi-Travnik, besieged by the Muslims, in Mostar besieged by the Croats ?
Dr. Gerry Coulter is Professor of Theory, Media and Technology at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. He is the founder of the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies ) on the internet.
Michael R. Czinkota teaches international business and marketing at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. and holds the chair in international marketing at the University of Birmingham in the UK . He served in the U.S. government as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce and was a partner in a trading firm. Aside from more than 100 articles on export management and trade policy, his key books are International Marketing (9th edition) and International Business, (8th edition) and Emerging Trends, Threats, and Opportunities in International Marketing. He has served the Academy of Marketing Science for 22 years as a member of the Board of Governors. He is a graduate of the University of Nürnberg (Germany) and The Ohio State University. http://www.michaelczinkota.com
David J. Cord has spent almost a decade working as a private banker in the United States and Finland. He is now a Financial Adviser in Helsinki.
Edward Dutton has a PhD in the Anthropology of Religion from Aberdeen University in Scotland.
Currently I’m studying in Greece. I also write poems in the morning and articles at night. The poems are quite hilarious; about my articles I’m not so sure what they are exactly. I love cinema – let’s say arts in general, yeah that includes everything – and baking apple pies
Judy, co-author of WEARY SOULS, SHATTERED BY LIFE, has been an advocate for the poor and homeless for many years. Since she experienced homelessness for herself many years ago, she fights for the rights of those who don’t know how to fight for themselves. Judy, the mother of six, has had several short stories, poems, and articles published since she began writing in the late 80’s. She has been published in The Presbyterian, The Other Side, The Plain Truth, Mother Jones, The Methodist Reporter, Christianity and Crisis, and other publications
Born in 1977 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, he has studied in Honduras, Mexico, Finland, Spain, the Netherlands and Sweden. He is a MSc Architect and has worked in the field as a Senior Architect in his own firm designing villas and commercial buildings. He has also presented design lectures.
My time is split between raising two troublemakers, training my husband and obtaining a degree in English and Creative Writing. I’m the wrong side of 25, love Green Day and live in the historic city of Chichester, West Sussex, England.
Longtime Borneo watcher Joe Fernandez is a graduate mature student of law and an educationist, among others, who loves to write especially Submissions for Clients wishing to Act in Person. He also tutors at local institutions and privately. He subscribes to Dr Stephen Hawking’s “re-discovery” of the ancient Indian theory that “the only predictable property of the universe is chaos”. He feels compelled, as a semi-retired journalist, to put pen to paper — or rather the fingers to the computer keyboard — whenever something doesn’t quite jell with his weltanschauung (worldview) or to give a Hearing to All. He shuttles between points in the Golden Heart of Borneo formed by the Sabah west coast, Labuan, Brunei, northern Sarawak and the watershed region in Borneo where three nations meet. He’s half-way through a semi-autobiographical travelogue, A World with a View…
I am a Law Postgraduate Research fellow at Helsinki/Kent University. I’m from Cameroon. In my leisure time, I’m a freelance writer. I write both fiction and non- fiction. My major academic Research Interests include: World Crises and International Politics, Legal approach to World & Regional Conflicts, Legal philosophy, Legal theory, and Humanitarian Law.
Joseph “Yossi” Gatt. I like to write about a little bit of everything. Check out my Goodreads profile for more information or to contact me: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/96203474-joseph-gatt and you can always check out my Blog: https://yossigatt.blogspot.com/”
Abigail George studied film and television production for a short while, which was followed by a brief stint as a trainee at a production house. She is a writer and poet. She has lived in Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth but she is currently living in Port Elizabeth. She has had poetry published in print and online. She has had short fiction published online. In 2005 and 2008 she was awarded grants from the National Arts Council in Johannesburg. She is not purely devoted to poetry but to pursuing writing fulltime. Storytelling for her has always been a phenomenal way of communicating and making a connection with other people.
Sofia has spent all of her 26 years trying to figure out what she wants to do with her life. Needless to say, she is still undecided. As a result, she divides her time between work, studying, writing, jamming with friends and reading big bulky books. Born and raised in Greece she now lives in London carrying with her a long tradition of Greek cooking, gossiping and nagging. She writes mainly on popular culture but to her annoyance that regularly coincides with politics and pop music.
Afghan writer and journalist – He writes in English, Pashto and Urdu and numerous of his articles and stories about Afghani and Pakistani politics, life and society have been published. Blog: The Unheard Voice (sarbaz.wordpress.com)
I am a 19 year old American Palestinian. Born and raised in Oak Forest, Il before moving to Palestine and finishing high school there, and am currently studying medicine in Jordan.
Yoshifumi Harada is a wanderer of the world. He grew up in a traditional Japanese family in the Hyogo Prefecture in Japan where his grandfather passed on the secrets of Shinto palmistry. He is a 3rd degree black belt holder of Shorinji Kempo and still practises.
Yoshifumi is a lover of both palmistry and chocolate ice cream. After many years of travelling through Asia, Yoshifumi settled down as a university professor, where he is most famous for his palm reading sessions after class. A self confessed Macdonalds addict, Yoshifumi holds the record of reading the most palms of anybody in Asia. He is a shopaholic, lover of urban tea culture, body-builder, and likes to complain a lot about the heat.
Hello, I am a forty-eight year old female who lives in Michigan.I have two awesome cats,Cleo and Shadow… I write every day and have sold three books. Antique Rose’s(a poetry/essay book) and I write a lot of poetry!
Murray has been around the traps of entrepreneurship for too long. He is a long time expat from Australia who has made Malaysia his home and tried his hand at everything from agriculture to computers, to food, to spas and to cosmetics. Now he is taking the easy life as an associate professor at a university close to you. Murray spends half his time in Thailand and the other half looking for opportunities in Malaysia. Murray is passionate and deadly earnest about entrepreneurship and believes everybody should have the chance to “have a go”. Murray’s columns focus on giving some simple and practical ideas about the game of entrepreneurship and personal development based on his immense experience and the insights. His pleasure is your success.
We are making a ‘Pilgrimage to Mt. Kailas’ in Tibet, riding our bicycles from Sweden (actually from Colorado, U.S.A.) to Nepal and Tibet. This in the name of peace! Join us on this journey to make friends and offer a gift of love to Mt. Kailas! You too can be a part of our ‘Pilgrimage to Mt. Kailas.’ All you have to do is wish us well! We will then speak your name to this holy mountain!
Misanthropic and a vivid hypochondriac, Rob Jenkinson is a reluctant 27-year-old living in the midwest of America and spends most of his time wandering around in a daze trying to figure out what the hell is going on over there. He then goes home and writes it all down in his weekly column “Letter’s from America”. Aren’t you all lucky?
Originally British, I’ve spent the last 25 years traveling the world scratching out a living as a freelance programmer. It’s less satisfying than building fences, which is what paid the bills back in 1973, but provides plenty of material about which to toddle off a few paragraphs. These days, you’ll find me in Washington DC, not far from ‘Dubbya’ – who never calls, never writes and doesn’t ask for advice. Maybe Hilary will…
Elsa Lycias Joel. I hold a doctorate in biotechnology. member of research gate with more than ten research publications of mangrove fungi. freelance a lot. worked with the new indian express as sub editor for a year or so. write for children’s magazines like Junior Chandamama,The children’s magazine by PCM publishers since 2004 and Children’s world by CBT. I also contribute to Womans Era, Readers Digest, I Quote, Women Exclusive (WE), infinithoughts, couples magazine and other regional dailies. recently authored a children’s book named “Perfect Endings’, the author’s copy of which was signed by none other than the former president of India Dr. Abdul Kalam
Michael Lee Johnson is a freelance writer and poet, who has had over 240 poems published in over 110 journals and online publications. He is a member of Poets & Writers, Inc and Directory of American Poets & Fictions Writers: pw.org/directory. He has been published in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Nigeria, India, and the United Kingdom. The Lost American is about one man’s journey into exile over the Vietnam War many years ago, his struggle, his survival, his road to recovery and strength manifesting itself through his prose and poems. Mr. Michael Lee Johnson lives with his best friend, Nikki, the cat, and is content to be living in a small suburb of Chicago.
I write since I was 18 years old, from fairy tales to science fiction novels, still I am not a writer, I …scribble funny cartoons. I did it for 5 years proficiently for two of the most popular Greek magazines, but I am not a painter. I am writing lyrics and music, I actually sang once a song in front of millions TV viewers on a contest, but I am not a musician. I was for 10 years the head of a marketing department in the largest CD-DVD manufacturer in Greece, but I am not a marketer. I finished a fashion designer school, but I never made a single clothe… I am 62 years-old now and I am trying to find what am I. Maybe you can help me find out. My name is George Kalatzis and I still live in Greece. Maybe this is the answer for all this mess above.
Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. He has published widely on topics of international security and modern history, and is currently lecturing in Modern History at the University of Queensland. I blog at Oz Moses (http://ozmoses.blogspot.com/)
Saloni Kaul, author and poet, published first at the age of ten, has stayed in print since on five continents. As critic and columnist, Saloni has all of forty six years years of being published. Saloni Kaul’s first volume, a fifty poem collection was published in the USA in 2009. Subsequent volumes include Universal One and Essentials All.
SALONI KAUL has been published recently in Mad Swirl’s Poetry Forum (contains ongoing Saloni Kaul poetry page), The Penwood Review, Scarlet Leaf Review, The OVI, Mantis (Stanford University), The Whimperbang Journal, The Horror Zine, The Imaginate (Rutger’s University) , Mystical Muse Poetry Magazine , Quail Bell Magazine, Harbinger Asylum and Transcendent Zero Press, Lullwater Review (Emory University of Atlanta), W-Poesis, Writers In The Know Magazine & TV Show, GAS Poetry Art & Music Journal, Verbal Art, Open Doors Review, The Evening Universe and Rundelania. Upcoming poetry publishing acceptances include OVI, The Penwood Review, Conceit Magazine, Amulet Magazine, W-Poesis and Euphony Journal (University of Chicago).
In addition to performing poetry solo, Saloni Kaul collaborates with artists on installations and exhibitions revolving around her own poetry and with musicians and composers on live and recorded performances of poetry set to music.
Date of Birth: 01.07.1974. Qualifications: Post Graduation in Biology, Diploma in computer applications and short course in journalism.
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes in international affairs-global security, peace and conflict resolution and has spent several academic years across the Russian-Ukrainian and Central Asian regions knowing the people, diverse cultures of thinking and political governance and a keen interest in Islamic-Western comparative cultures and civilizations, and author of several publications including the latest: One Humanity and the Remaking of Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution. 12/2019.
Amir Khatib had gone a long way in the world. He comes from the Tigris and Euphrates valley, from the cradle of our civilization but he chosen to live in Finland, the extreme north of Europe, which is considered the laboratory of the future.
Kola King is a journalist and novelist. He has worked for over three decades as a reporter, correspondent and editor in major national newspapers in Nigeria. He’s currently Managing Editor, Nigeria Now, a public policy magazine based in Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital. He also writes for The Africa Paper, Minnesota, USA, He’s a columnist with Public Review newspaper, Freetown, Sierra-Leone. His debut novel A Place in the Sun was published and released in May 2016 by Verity Publishers, Pretoria, South Africa. His writings have appeared in some literary journals including The Kalahari Review, The Missing Slate Literary and Arts Journal, Litro and The New Black Magazine. He holds a degree in Mass Communication from the University of Lagos.
American writer Artie Knapp is the author of many published works for young readers. His children’s book Stuttering Stan Takes a Stand was endorsed by The National Stuttering Association and the American Institute for Stuttering. A frequent contributor to Ovi Magazine, Artie’s children’s literature has also been featured in such publications as The Detroit Free Press, Humpty Dumpty’s Magazine, Lincoln Kids, The Modesto Bee, Kids Turn Central, the Fort Wayne Family Magazine and the Cincinnati Enquirer to name a few. He is a member of The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and graduated from Ohio University. Artie lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with his wife and daughter. To learn more about Artie and his work, please visit http://www.artieknapp.com
A Research Assistant at Yildiz Technical University, Department of Architecture, İstanbul, Turkey, Emine was born in Istanbul in 1980. After graduating from Trakya University as an architect, she got her Master of Architecture degree at YTU. She is a PhD student at YTU now and studies spatial perception and legibility. She likes books, taking photographs and watercolor painting.
Poet, writer, artist, philosopher, and citizen of the world. Lived in Greece,and now lives in Kirribilli, Sydney Harbour, Australia.
“My home is any cafe with a warm heart, a glass of wine, and partaking in a symposium on life with new friends,with joy and laughter.”
Photographer Linda Lane lives in the San Francisco Bay area having recently relocated from Seattle, Washington. Lane was raised in Alaska, coming from an “old West” family – her great-grandfather, Isaac Newton Lane (Mexican Cherokee), was one of the 26 Pony Express Riders in the 1860’s. Both lines of her family come from Alaska beginning in 1896, a year before the Nome Gold Rush. Her career began as a wildlife photographer working for the US Fish and Wildlife Service in Anchorage, Alaska in 1978. She has a holistic world view with a global perspective, which she uses when designing software in-between photography trips, which take her rambling from around her neighborhood to around the world — Nepal, Mexico, India, etc, and home to Alaska. Linda uses the nickname “Wonderlane” on the Internet.
The McGill Report is a journalistic experiment in global citizenship and journalism ethics.
Patrick McWade has been drawing cartoons, cards, and logos for more over two dozen years. During that time, his strips and editorial cartoons have appeared in various incarnations of local small town newspapers. His work has also shown up in a variety of print and online magazines. He currently lives in Nova Scotia, Canada with his wife, and their two big dogs.
Ten years “finnished” now and yet *I feel I have only just started. I’m a finfan with an allergy to language learning, so I’m being holistic about it and taking small doses regularly in an effort to build up an immunity that will eventually allow me to speak the lingo freely without worry. A wonderful wife, courageous children and really prolific professionally. What can I say, James Bond, but without any really cool gadgets…This message should really self-destruct in ten seconds, but it probably won’t. Damn!
I was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. Once I’d tried to be everything: a rock musician, a street sweeper, a carpenter, a circus clock room attendant, a night guard, an artist, a music instructor, and a rock group manager. I emigrated to USA as political refugee in 1989. I’ve been living in Europe for the last eight years.
A Greek living in Ireland, a Journalism student and interested in politics, history, art,nature,traveling and music. His blog aims to give an alternative perspective of EU and European politics to the citizens of EU, and re-enact their interest in European politics. He believes in an equal and prosperous Europe for all its people and nationalities, but with an equal distribution of wealth, equal opportunities and development for all the continent. He loves traveling and would like to start a travel blog as well. He created his blog, with a vision into making it a real movement: The Eblana European Democratic Movement.
Gordana Mudri Born in 1965 in Croatia, skilful with words and hands, head full of images and ideas that are just waiting to break free, drawers filled with hidden works.
Bouke S. Nagel studied Business Administration as part of the Social Sciences at the Radboud University in Nijmegen in the Netherlands. He is an avid reader and likes to write. Over the past years Mr. Nagel published his so-called “explorations” and other pieces in OVI-Magazine on topics such as the EU, contemporary populism, democracy and the financial crisis. These were received very well by the OVI-readership and for that he is grateful. Comments or remarks on his articles and thoughts are appreciated.
What to say without saying too much? I was born in 1942, and have degrees in philosophy and political science from Columbia University and the New School for Social Research, and there is very little that I am not interested in. I have studied all of the social sciences, only to find out that they were not “scientific” in the strong sense. But I did come away with a lack of piety about those disciplines. For example, I do not believe in economists, but I do relish economic history.
At 32 I went to the New School to study philosophy and found a home. I became, in turn, an expert on Hannah Arendt, on Aristotle, Plato, and later wrote a long book on Kafka, the smartest guy on the planet. I founded a philosophy journal that has survived to this day.
I have taught over time at a dozen colleges, in New York and London, but got attached to none, and worked often as a social worker or in some other region of social services.
It’s all the manic depression thing, either an undirected layabout or a man visiting many research institutions seeking out the least known detail of something I cannot live without getting to the bottom of.
Up until some months ago I was working on another long project, in the philosophy of history, which I have taught several times, but it burgeoned so greatly I had an outline of several hundred pages and left the project out of boredom. But I have just taken it up again. If I get busy as a dung beetle, I could write on what I have already learned about this subject primarily, though I assert with full confidence that everything interests me, and even I cannot predict exactly where I will wind up on a given topic.
Currently living in the Helsinki Metro area, native New Yorker and half-Finn Edna Nelson has been learning Finnish, filling note books, adjusting to the culture and producing her journal-comic series “I ❤ Me”. After living in Florida for a year and a half she realized that a she wasn’t ready to act in that 2 car garage production just yet and opted out. Packed her bags, flew to Finland and committed to the hope of living her dreams.
Chad Norman, Truro, NS, Canada,
His poems have appeared for nearly 40 years in literary publications across Canada, as well as a number of other countries around the world, also translated into Albanian, Spanish, Polish, Chinese, Turkish, Italian, Czech, Vietnamese, and Hungarian.
In October 2016 he was invited by the Nordic Assn. for Canadian Studies to give talks on Canadian Poetry and read from his books at Borupgaard Gym in Copenhagen, and Risskov Gym in Aarhus, as well as other readings in both cities, and Malmo, Sweden. Because of that tour Norman started the manuscript, Counting Coins In Denmark And Sweden.
In October of 2017 he read at various Eastern Canada venues in Kingston, Ottawa, and Montreal, reading poems from his Selected and New collection, published by Mosaic Press (Oakville, ON).
In October of 2018 he read at various types of venues from universities to cafes to pubs throughout Ireland, Scotland, Wales, while there he visited Swansea and slept three nights in the room where Dylan Thomas was born. A celebration of Canadian Poetry took place during this tour too.
His most recent books are Simona: A Celebration Of The S.P.C.A., out 2021 from Cyberwit. Net Press (India), Squall: Poems In The Voice of Mary Shelley, 2020, Guernica Editions (Toronto), A Matter Of Inclusion, 2022, Mwanaka Media And Publishing ( Zimbabwe), and a children’s picture book, B And Boy, 2023, Cyberwit. Net (India). And a new collection, Parental Forest, is due out Spring 2024 with AOS publications (Montreal).
He is currently a member of The League Of Canadian Poets.
He’s just John and he was one of the founding members of Ovi. Until recently he was MIA, but he has recently surfaced safe and sound in Indonesia. Now back in USA building saunas!
Prof. Ernesto Paolozzi (Napoli, 1954), è stato borsista presso l’ Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici (fondato da Benedetto Croce) E’ stato direttore scientifico della Fondazione Luigi Einaudi di Roma. Attualmente è componente del Comitato scientifico.
E’ docente di Storia della Filosofia Contemporanea presso l’Università Suor Orsola Benincasa di Napoli. E’ membro del Comitato scientifico dell’Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici
Autore di vari saggi e volumi tra i quali: I problemi dell’estetica italiana, Napoli, 1985. – Vicende dell’estetica, Napoli, 1989. – Guido Cortese, (con Raffaello Franchini), Napoli, 1990. – Ha curato il Carteggio Croce – Mann, Napoli, 1991. – L’identità liberale in una società in trasformazione, Napoli, 1992. – Il liberalismo come metodo, Roma, 1995. – La rivoluzione ingenerosa, Napoli, 1996. – Ha curato l’edizione del Profilo di Tocqueville, – di Vittorio De Caprariis, Napoli, 1996. – Benedetto Croce, Napoli, 1998. – Libertà, democrazia, repubblica, Napoli, 2000 – Con Valerio Zanone ed altri autori:Critica della ragion liberale, Napoli, 2000. – L’estetica di Benedetto Croce, Napoli, 2002 (trad. russa a cura di Svletana Maltzeva). – Con Giuseppe Gembillo e Giuseppe Giordano:Liberalismo, scienza, complessità. Messina, 2004.
Bioetica: una scienza per la vita, Milano, 20009
Benedetto Croce e il metodo liberale, Ravenna, 2010
Treasurer for the Italian Institute for Historical Studies. – Director for Foundation Luigi Einaudi of Rome. – Professor of History and Philosophy at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University, Naples – Member of the Italian Commitee for historical studies.
Lake Worth, Florida
May 3, 1942 – Jan 31, 2018
A former Fulbright scholar, Professor Emanuel Paparella directed the Summer Program in Urbino, Italy for the University of Central Florida, and accomplished two major translations from the Italian: Vitorio Possenti’s Philosophy and Revelation (Ashgate Publishing, London, 2001) and the forthcoming Diego Fabbri’s Jesus on Trial. Since 2000 he was active in the debate on the European Union while writing, lecturing and teaching Humanities part time at Barry University.
Emanuel Paparella, Lino, lived in Florida with his wife Catherine and his three daughters Cristina, Alessandra, and Francesca.
Treasurer for the Italian Institute for Historical Studies. – Director for Foundation Luigi Einaudi of Rome. – Professor of History and Philosophy at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University, Naples – Member of the Italian Commitee for historical studies.
Louie Parsons is from Ireland orginally, Based himself in Holland for many years and travelled Europe before settling in Lahti. Is the founding member and songwriter of the rock band Those Magnificent Bastards, (T,M,B,). He also co writes lyrics with some of Finland’s more popular rock bands. He is a featured columnist with the magazine Iso l, and writes for many online magazines around the world using a array of pen names. He has just finished a book on historical megalithic sites and their alignments to the winter and summer solstices, and their advanced astronomical significance.
George Cassidy Payne is originally from the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York. He now lives and works in the City of Rochester, New York. George is a poet, photographer, essayist, professor of philosophy, and social worker.
George’s poetry has been included in a variety of journals and magazines, including Chronogram Magazine, Allegro Poetry Journal, Mojave Heart, the Red Porch Review, Albany Up the River Poets Journal, Teahouse, The Adirondack Almanack,The Mindful Word, Talker of the Town, Pulsar, Moria Poetry Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, and many others.
George’s letters and editorials have appeared in The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the South China Morning Post, the Syracuse Post-Standard, the Buffalo News, the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Minority Reporter, Chicago Crusader, Amsterdam News, and the Albany Times Union.
When he is not writing or taking photographs of natural landscapes, he works as a domestic violence counselor, adjunct instructor of philosophy, and social justice activist. George has a beautiful wife and two wonderful children named Mendon and Ellison.
Stan Popovich is the author of “A Layman’s Guide to Managing Fear Using Psychology, Christianity and Non Resistant Methods” – an easy to read book that presents a general overview of techniques that are effective in managing persistent fears and anxieties. For additional information go to: http://www.managingfear.com/
Citizen of the UE and member of the worldwide solidarity movement supporting the Sahrawi People.
He is an Indian who fell in love with Finland two years ago. A professional manufacturing consultant, whose interest also lies in World politics, current affairs, and business. Loves traveling, food, wine and reading.
Born in Helsinki’s suburb, lives and breaths now the air of Kallio. Studies movie screenwriting in Helsinki Polytechnic. Doesn’t know the ending.
Born in early 1970’s in south Athens, with a variety of professions in my career path and the mishap to have worked for a dozen of years for a devastated sector in Greece, the one of cars. I consider myself a modern satirical cartoonist, highly recognized by all my close friends! They also blame me on how I can deliver such sense of humour embodied in art, while I never eat sweets or sugar at any use… I also adore biking, innovative and imaginative creations.
Warren Reed was an intelligence officer with the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS). Trained by MI6 in London, he served in Asia and the Middle East. His latest spy novel is An Elephant on Your Nose, set in Japan, China and South Korea immediately prior to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
The Rohingya community of Arakan, Burma ( Myanmar ) is one of the most unfortunate and down-trodden minority groups of the world, who have been constantly subjected to gross human rights violation decades after decades by the military rulers of Burma who have turned Burma into a secret state of terror since 1962. The Council for Restoration of Democracy in Burma (CRDB) has been working for the restoration of Democracy in Burma as well as for the restoration of human rights of Rohingya community.
John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) writes the Dissecting Leftism blog. He is a former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.
Virginia Maria Romero is a visionary artist with works in public, and museum permanent collections, as well as numerous private collections throughout the United States and abroad. Romero’s biographical artist profile is included on the New Mexico Office of the State Historian website: http://www.newmexicohistory.org; and in 2013 Romero was recognized as a distinguished Artist and Poet by the American Council for Polish Culture.
The style, color, and compositions of Romero’s acrylics as well as her pigmented wood panels (retablos) and sculpture continue to exhibit her uniqueness and creative quality. Romero is one of a handful of “Anglos” to be counted among the santero artists of the American Southwest with works inspired by the culture of New Mexico and her Polish/Irish heritage that are just as strongly driven by her own experiences, setting her works apart from others. In reference it has been said that, “Romero has taken an ancient art form and redefined it, reinvented it, and made it her own.” “Virginia Maria Romero’s art speaks a language unlike any other…it is a language of the heart, of the soul, of life…”
I am a French citizen who grew up in Germany and the U.S., and am currently dividing my time between Manchester and Berlin. I speak English, French, German, Hungarian and Polish and am currently in the process of learning Finnish. I have been writing since the age of seven or eight, adapting the stories I liked to the way I wanted them told, preferring the imaginative to the autobiographical and am currently working on a series of stories based in and around Finnish culture and music.
Saberi Roy is a poet, writer and analyst and writes and publishes articles on a broad range of social, political, psychological and religious issues. She has several degrees in many subjects and is also an avid traveler.
I was born in Manhattan, New York, grew up to the age of 12 in Brooklyn, and resided until the age of 36 in Manhattan. I took a degree in industrial design at Pratt Institute and worked in New York until I was designated field man for a New York firm for an exhibition by the US Commerce Dept in Helsinki, where I met my wife. Since then, I worked in Berlin, Paris, Tel Aviv and in the USA.
Valerie Sartor is an educational researcher who has lived all around the world including Inner Mongolia, China.
G. David Schwartz is the former president of Seedhouse, the online interfaith committee. Schwartz is the author of A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue. Currently a volunteer at Drake Hospital in Cincinnati , Schwartz continues to write.
I’m an American who’s been living in Finland for four years. I am a strong advocate of liberty, individuality, equality, and tolerance.
Leah Sellers is a resident Texas who has enjoyed three varied careers within her lifetime as a: Secondary Education teacher in the fields of English, History, Journalism and Special Education, a professional singer/songwriter, and a visual artist and poet. She has had the great good fortune, while performing and travelling the U.S. with her sisters, to open for such folks as Willie Nelson, Johnny Rodriguez and Trini Lopez, and to sing during the gospel hour at the Grand “ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.
The primary aim of Gush Shalom is to influence Israeli public opinion and lead it towards peace and conciliation with the Palestinian people: www.gush-shalom.org
Dr. Habib Siddiqui has been a prolific author in the genre of humanity, social conscience and human rights since 1978. He has written over 200 essays, many of which are published as Op/Ed columns in newspapers, magazines, journals and the Internet around the globe.
Emmanuel Sigauke was born in Zimbabwe, where he started writing at the age of thirteen. After graduating from the University of Zimbabwe with a BA in English, he moved to California where he completed graduate studies. He teaches English at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento, where he is an editor of the Cosumnes River Journal. He has published poetry in journals and magazines in Zimbabwe, Ireland and the United States. His recent publications have appeared in Virtual Poet, Slow Trains Journal, Ibhuku, and African Writer.com.
David Sparenberg is a world citizen, environmental & peace advocate & activist, actor, poet-playwright, storyteller, teacher and author.
When I’m not writing short stories and essays or producing documentary films in Montréal, I can be found mucking about in my gardens trying to create the perfect eggplant.
Francesco Tampoia, born in Acquaviva delle Fonti (BA) philosopher and historian, Ph. D. at University of Bari with a dissertation on the political thought of D. Hume, had followed courses of specialization in London, courses and professional conferences in Rome and other Universities. From 1980 he has published widely. He has written 4 books, more than 100 articles, including essays and reviews, and collaborated to different cultural and scientific, national and international journals.
The name Floco Tausin is a pseudonym. The author has studied at the Faculty of the Humanities at the University of Bern, Switzerland. In theory and practice he is engaged in the research of subjective visual phenomena in connection with altered states of consciousness and the development of consciousness as such. In 2009, he published the mystical story “Mouches Volantes” about the spiritual dimension of eye floaters.
Lee is drifting through life at the moment, pulled by the tides of fate. He is a London lad and enjoys the lights and sounds of the city, keep an eye out for him on Oxford Street on Saturday mornings. He enjoys classical music and a spot of horse racing washed down with some fine wine.
He was born in 1989, in South Southern Nigeria. In 2008, he became the youngest columnist in Community Pulse – one of the leading Newspapers in Akwa Ibom State. Now, a contributing poet at Mad Swirl – where the maddest of the mad ones are.
Kufre Udeme is a strong-willed writer with an artistic commitment to beat the blind criticism of Africa.
Since 2007, his writings has been published in local and international publications. All States, The Evangelist, and Update Newspapers were the first rung of his publishing ladder. Fullosia Press, NY, published his poem in its 2011 Independence Day Issue entitled, ”The Obama Nation” paving the way for his featuring in various online publications such as Apollo’s Lyre, Queen Vic Knives, Nefarious Ballerina 5.2, Poets West, and Poets Haven. Others include Exercise Bowler – issue 7, Boyne Berries 10, The Moth – Ireland, Decanto issue 5.7, Penny Ante Feud #7, Essence, Rattle Journal issue three, and The Muse – an International Journal of Poetry, India.
This poet holds a certificate on Effective Writing and Book Publishing Skills – awarded by Quest Publishing House, Lagos, in conjunction with Centre for Publishing & Communication Research, and Harvest Time International Institute.
I am a landscape architect and cartoonist. Living in the Italian country. Have a lot of sympathy with Scandinavian culture. Love vintage English cars. Love Italian food and wine and all de rest in http://www.alexvannini.com.
René Wadlow is President of the Association of World Citizens and a NGO representative to the U.N. Geneva.
Association of World Citizens site: www.awcungeneva.com
As an internet missionary (www.freewebs.com/freegrace) and freelance writer I am mission-minded (Math. 28:18). My purpose is two-fold: To prayerfully and financially support Missions Committees, which collaborates with other churches in supporting national and international missions. And also to aid funding of the Homeless Drop-In Center in Wichita, Kansas. I emphasize Christian Apologetics; fossilization, carbon-14 dating, dinosaurs in the Bible (and contemporary of man), eternal security (once saved, always saved), etc.
N. L. Wilbur is an award-winning reporter and commentator turned politics junkie and critic
Matt Williamson has a background in journalism but he left that for the joys of opinion and fiction. Matt is an average guy; he just happens to love religion, science, economics, philosophy and music. Hey, who doesn’t?
Originally from Port Macquarie, Australia, I am a Cartoonist and Illustrator based in South London who also plays drums, works as a Cameraman and likes bad horror films
“I didn’t learn much in those early years,
just remembered a few essential things,
and my middle years were mostly spent
convalescing through my hidden fears.”
Rajan Zed is a Hindu and Indo-American statesman who was invited to read historic first Hindu prayers to the Nevada Assembly and the Nevada Senate, as well as the United States Senate in Washington DC – his prayer is transcribed on page S9069 of the Congressional Record. He also read the historic first Hindu prayers in the State Senates of California, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and Washington. besides Arizona House of Representatives.
Kourosh Ziabari born in the April 1990 is an Iranian freelance journalist and the author of Book “7+1”. He is the contributing writer for websites and magazines of Netherlands, Canada, Italy, Hong Kong, Bulgaria, South Korea, Belgium, Germany, UK and the US, the member of Stony Brook University Publications’ editorial team, a member of Media Left magazine’s board of editors. As a young Iranian journalist, he has been interviewed or quoted by several mainstream magazines, radio stations and TV channels such as BBC world service, PBS Media Left, Deutsch Financial Times, LA Times and Sky News.
Tony was born way back in the crazy, far out, groovy sixties; ’62 in fact…That’s him over to the left. He currently lives with the four people inside his head, somewhere in Australia. His Hobbies are Arthritis and Medication. Was once in the Television Industry as a Cameraman/Editor for 24 years. Cartooning and Drawing is something Tony’s been doing naturally on-and-off ever since he could walk, but nothing professional, just doddles for Family and Friends; that is, until in 2004 he decided to give Cartooning a full-time red-hot go ( the silly fool! ), and he’s never looked back; partly due to the Arthritis in his neck.
His work has been sold, bought, used and licenced around the World in areas such as: The Movie industry, Law firms, Software companies, Theatre and Arts, Universities, Colleges, Schools, Churches, Small business, Blog sites, Websites, Newsletters, Merchandise and much, much more! This has kept him very happy and from going sane.
Tony’s site: http://www.berserkalert.com.au
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