ANNA KEIKO

 

 

Watching Tv

 

Wisdom highlights giants and illuminates sorrows.

Guns, explosives, drugs, chemical weapons,

All combatting with human kindness.

Roaring above the head,

The dark clouds half-closing their eyes.

 

 

Taking A Walk

 

Immersed by the spell of dreams

I went for a walk

To look for flowers

And discovered a bright light

Which lifted me out of the darkness 

 

Moonlight

 

Gently on the surface of the sea

A candle one cannot blow out,

A silver mouth

Before the dawn

Murmured in the water

 

ANNA KEIKO

 

ANNA KEIKO: (China) Poet, writer, once studied law at the School of Political Science and Law, Shanghai East China University, permanently living in Shanghai, China. Founder and Chief Editor of ACC Shanghai Huifeng Literature Association and Chinese representative and director of the international cultural foundation ITHACA; partner of Immagine & Poesia in Italy; international member of the Canadian-Cuban Literary Union; specially invited poet of the International Writers Magazine; member of the Board of Directors of the Young Writers Magazine.Her poems have been rendered into more than 30 languages, and over 2,000 poems have been published in more than 200 poetry journals, magazines, newspapers and self-media in over 40 countries. Anna Keiko has been invited to participate in dozens of international poetry festivals and poetry exchange conferences. On January 18, 2022, she won the "Best Foreign Female Writer Award" of the 28th International Poetry "Squid Bone" in Italy. On 27 May 2021, she won the "Best Writer in A Foreign Language " award at the COVID-19 International Poetry Competition in Italy.. On July 15, 2021, she won Naji Naaman Literary Prizes 2021. On October 8, 2020, she won the "Best Foreign Writer" Category A prize in the eighth "Color of Soul" International Poetry Competition held in SAN Remo, Italy. 12, 2020, she was awarded IL Meleto di Guido Gozzano（Italy）Prize for Literature. In 2019 she was granted the Mihai Eminescu College Medal（Romania）and received a certificate of honor at the poetry, painting and music event in Curtea de Arges, granted with the King Bashab Nigo medal. In 2019, on the International Poetry Festival in Santiago de Chile she was granted the outstanding contribution award and a certificate to poetry. In addition, she got the honorary certificate of the 2nd Chalkida International Poetry Festival in Greece; "Chinese Contemporary Literature and Art Award" and the Chinese Poetry Annual Celebrity List and many other awards. Anna Keiko got three collections of her poems published and co-authored dozens of literary books as well. In 2021, a new collection of poems entitled "Lonely in the Blood" came out with a couple of prefaces written by prestigious poets and writers from five countries. The preface of the collection "Language of Deep Sleep" was broadcast by Shanghai People's Broadcasting Station, and the collection's Chinese version was published by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House and well received by great readerships both at home and abroad.  Anna Keiko also has remarkable publications ranging from prose, essays, lyrics, drama to sketch comedy, etc. She is a leading contender to be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020