[mukto-mona] Shabdaguchha Award 2009 has been announced

Dear Friends,

 

It is our pleasure to let you know that the recipient of the Shabdaguchha Poetry Award 2009 is Rahman Henry, who is a significant poet of the 90s and who contributed some of his important poems to Shabdaguchha. On Dec 16 2009, the evening of the 38th Victory Day of Bangladesh, in a ceremony at the Shabdaguchha office in New York, the guest of honor, Prof. Nicholas Birns, a faculty of New School University, announced the award on behave of Shabdaguchha. "Rahman Henry is a poet whose work I know and respect, who is very much occupied the role of Postmodern poetry," mentioned Prof. Birns after announcing the award. He also read a poem of Mr. Henry from the "Poets of Bangladesh"  Shabdaguchha issue for which he was the guest editor. A significant numbers of poets and writers were present during the announcement. The poet will receive $200 and a crest from Shabdaguchha.

 

Rahman Henry, a postmodern Bangladeshi poet and the author of ten collections of poetry, published his Selected Poems in 2008. He is the editor of Poet Tree, a Bengali poetry journal.

 

 

Sincerely,

 

Hassanal Abdullah, editor

Shabdaguchha

 

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Website: http://www.shabdaguchha.com

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