**NEWS**NEWS**NEWS** “…You -Lozan, will hold the title as the winner of “Rabindranath Tagore Award- International” for the year 2019.”

I am humbled to announce to you all: https://www.facebook.com/notes/rabindranath-tagore-award/peace-treaty-rabindranath-tagore-award-winning-poem-2019-contest/2101919813207419/ 

My voice, my sorrow /hope filled heart and my presence at this critical time in our tumultuous world is the driving force behind the poetry I write.
To see one of the voices of a humble poet calling for peace and an end to the senseless violence in our land, get lifted up and appreciated, gives me joy to know that we are on the right track and heading towards a better future for the sake of children of today and generations that will follow.
I am utterly humbled to the point of falling to my knees to read the reviews the judges remarked on my poem.
Thank you from the botton of my heart 🕊
This poem is in my latest poetry collection (Dreamers Needed) self-published through McNally Robinson Book Publisher in Winnipeg 💐 They are sold in New Westminster & Maple Ridge.

I got the news the moment our flight arrived in Toronto early yesterday morning. This is such an honour and to read the judges remarks fills my eyes with tears.


I too actually was seriously thinking of sending THIS poem to leaders of the world. To read one of the judges suggesting this, convinces me to actually do it and I will.

this is the email I got from the Poetry Contest:

Dear Lozan Yamolky,

CONGRATULATIONS FOR BEING ADJUDGED AS THE WINNER OF THE 8TH RABINDRANATH TAGORE AWARD – 2019.

We are very glad to inform you about the position scored by your poem in the recent contest.  Your poem ‘PEACE TREATY’ is adjudged as the BEST POEM (FIRST POSITION) in the contest. Your winning position is based on the meritorious score you have gained in this competition judged by the following panel of juries.

SUSAN ROGERS, UNITED STATES, DR. DUSHYANT NIMAVAT – INDIA, MARGO BERDESHEVSKY – FRANCE

You will hold the title as the winner of “Rabindranath Tagore Award- International” for the year 2019.

Once again, we wish you many wonderful achievements in Literature and to have a great relationship with you in all creative endeavors.


Gopakumar Radhakrishnan

Founder- MD,

RABINDRANATH TAGORE AWARD – INTERNATIONAL

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Dated 23/2/2019

Published by Lozan Yamolky

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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