 (Manila Bulletin: 10 August 2000) Six top poets in English - four Americans, a Japanese and a Filipino - won awards in poetry at the 16th World Congress of Poets sponsored by the World Poet Laureates International in cooperation with the University of the Philippines. The top in the poetry writing competition was won by Prof. Blanco Cabie, former president of the country's biggest literary organization, GUMIL Filipinas, and currently a coordinator for Northern Luzon of the National Commission for the Culture and the Arts (NCCA). Cabie is the unlce of Manila Bulletin-Tempo education reporter Joel C. Atencio. Other winners are Bettye Hammer Givens of Texas, USA; Rita Bogaert of California, USA; 1998 Nobel Prize nominee for Poetry Mary Rudge of Chicago, Illinois, USA; Sapporo University Prof. Yuriya Kumagai of Japan, and Judy Hardin Cheung, president of Poets of the Vineyard in California. They received their awards last Aug. 6 at the awards night athe Mimosa Estate Villas at Clark Field in Pampanga. The conference, heade by Dr. Domingo Landicho of the UP Filipino
Department, gathered poets from nine countries three years after the 15th
congress held in Britain. They came from Philippines, Russia, US, Japan,
Thailand, India, Britain, South Korea, andAustralia.
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