From the unceded territories of the səlil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) & xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations —Vancouver BC Canada, Lozan Yamolky humbly begun since 2013 to share with her family, her community then the world, her poetry. Lozan was born and raised in Baghdad, Iraq in 1972. She is of Kurdish descent. After the Desert Storm War of 1991 and the subsequent uprising of the Kurds, she along with her family and million others became refugees stranded on the borders of Iran. After long journey and many trials, she immigrated to Canada in 1995 settling in Vancouver. She is the fifth of eleven children and now the mother of two boys. She works as freelance interpreter and she is the author of two other poetry books I’m No Hero & Counting Waves through: Silver Bow Publishing. :
The book Dreamers Needed is dedicated to her two teenage sons. Lozan believes our troubled world needs dreamers that will rise and change it to a better world for all not for the elite, the greedy, the corrupt and polluters. She believes poetry frees, poetry heals, and poetry can bring peace to our world. Her book is about love and acceptance, about refugees and war-torn lands, about the planet and the call to warrior up, it is about ancient pride, culture, respect, knowledge and ancestors link that continues to flow through our veins and through our spirit and this book is about how memorable you want to be once you are gone.
First and foremost, I would like to acknowledge that I humbly live on the traditional, unceeded territories of the səlil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) & xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. Thank you for allowing me to live on your land —Vancouver, BC Canada.
I am a Canadian citizen who migrated from Kurdistan —Present day Northern Iraq, in 1995 after spending over a year as an asylum seeker in Turkey.
I was born and raised in Baghdad in 1972, I am the fifth of eleven children; three boys and seven girls –one brother passed away in infancy.
I am the author of ( I’m No Hero) and ( Counting Waves ) published by: Silver Bow Publishing. I am dedicating my third book of poems ( Dreamers Needed ) to my teenage boys, Trey, 15 and Wyatt, 13.
I started reciting my poems for the first time in 2013 at The Holy Wow Poets Canada in Maple Ridge. I am currently a member of the Canadian Authors Association, Federation of BC Writers, The Royal City Literary Art Society and the Holy Wow Poets Canada. I am presently the secretary of the Royal City Literary Arts Society. I work as a freelance interpreter.
I was commissioned in the fall of 2017 to write a poem about the refugee experience to DaCapo Chamber Choir in Toronto. The event will feature my poem “I am here” in spring 2019.
I was one of the recipients of the 2018 Distinguished Poet Award from WIN– Writers International Network Canada and was 3rd place winner at the 2018 Tagore Festival Peace Poems contest. Since first sharing my poetry in 2013, I have featured in numerous poetry events throughout the Greater Vancouver area.
My work has been published in The Royal City Poets Anthologies (Silver Bow Publishing), The Royal City Literary Arts Society online magazine eZine, Wordplay at Work, Creative Quills Ink Verse (North Vancouver), Celebrate Canada 150 and Culture Days From Far and Wide (Multicultural Creative Writing Collection 2017) and the 2018 Holy Wow Poets Anthology (Maple Ridge).
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