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Hillol Ray
Poet Laureate, Author, and
Song Writer, is an Environmental Engineer and Manager of Drinking Water
Supply Enforcement Program, with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) in Dallas, Texas. He has been writing poetry since the age of six,
in his native language "Bengali". His poems are regularly published in
Bengali magazines from Asia, Europe, Canada, Sweden, and North America and
are currently being translated into English, Swedish, Spanish, German and
French languages. Many issues of "Six Country Reporter" at EPA in Dallas
have also published his English poems. But one of his recent poems, "Earth
Day", has made him an "overnight" sensation. It was read at several local
observations, presented at a celebration in Arizona, displayed by the
Dallas Museum of Art, and has been published worldwide. It also earned him
letters of personal recognition from President Bill Clinton, Vice
President Al Gore, Jr. and Indian Ambassador S.S. Ray (no relation) in
Washington, DC. In addition, he has received letters of personal
appreciations for his poems from Madame Francine Cousteau, President of
the Cousteau Society, Inc. in Paris, France, (and wife of world renowned
Oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau), and also from Mother Teresa of
Calcutta, India. Recently his poems "Old Wine in New Bottle",
"Homogenization - A Millennium Dream" have been selected as "Choice Poem"
by the Australian Poetic Society. His poems have been displayed by the
J.C. Penney, Inc., University of San Francisco in California, Cultural
Association of Bengal in New York, Southern Methodist University in
Dallas, TX; University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire; Rangsit
University in Thailand, Bangkok; NetFriends of Tibet Site in Stockholm,
Sweden; and also on the web pages of EPA in Washington, DC, the
Asian-American Village from Boston, Massachusetts, and many other web
sites from the USA and abroad. Recently, the lyrics from his poem
"Diversity" have been included in the song album "Star Route U.S.A."
released by Amerecord from Hollywood, California. He is frequently invited
as a Guest Poet and Seminar Moderator by the various Hillol Ray is also listed among the Who's Who of Asian Americans. Hillol Ray is also the 2006
NFIA (National Federation of Indian American Association) Award Winner
from U.S.A. in Liberal and Fine Arts. Selected as
Poet of the Week |
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