International Section

the new renaissance has published artists, poets, and writers from more than 42 countries in 35 different languages, and 8 different alphabets. The following foreign artists are from our current issue tnr #37:

Ashbindu Singh has had 15 years with UNEP (United Nations Environmental Programe). He is considered a foremost authority on global-environmental data, information, assessment, and monitoring. A coordinator of the 2005 Atlas, One Planet, Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment, a 2005 UN publication. Singh receive his Master of Science from Banaras Hindu University, India and his Ph.D. in Environmental Science from the University of Reading, U.K. He is co-author of the lead article in tnr #37 on “Reining in on Rainforest Destruction.”

Kai Althoff was born in 1966 in Cologne where he still lives and works. He has had numerous exhibitions in his native Cologne and in Brussels, Berlin, Venice, Stuttgart, Mönchengladbach, São Paulo, London, NYC, and Boston, as well as numerous group exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States.

Norman Ball a Glaswegian immigrated to the United States as a teenager and has been published in Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, The Hazmet Literary Review, The Berkeley Poetry Review The Cumberland Poetry Review. He received his master’s from George Washington University.

Zevi Blum a Parisian-born artist in the United States since 1957. He has exhibited at Hartley, NY; Oxford Gallery in Rochester, NY; Parnas Gallery in Santa Monica, CA; Pucker Gallery in Boston, MA; SUNY, Cortland, NY; and many others.

Barbara Honigmann, born in East Berlin in 1949, has published two short novels: Eine Liebe aus Nichts and Zoharas Reise, translated into English and published by David R. Godine, Publishers, Boston. The story Gräber in London is from her 1999 collection of stories, Damals, Dann, und Danach.

Julie Rowley is an Australian who was co-director of the Paris Writers’ Workshops 1996 – 1998. She has been in the United States since 1999.

Su Shih, an 11th Century Chinese poet, considered the greatest poet of the Sung Era, died in 1101.

Marian Tsvetayeva (1892 – 1941) is, along with Anna Akhmatova, one of the two indisputably great woman poets of 20th Century Russia. Still largely unknown in the United States, Tsvetayeva is the subject of a book Living in Fire: Confessions edited by Tzvetan Todorov and published in France (an English translation is expected in 2006).

Liu Yung is one of the Sun Dynasty’s (960 – 1234) most regarded poets. Yung (circa 1034) achieved his early fame as a songwriter and his form of song, tz’u, is considered a major Chinese form and has been written up to modern times.