[New-Poetry] Zen Poetry

[Anny Ballardini]

If I were rich enough to be a benefactor I would also support a Zen monastery.
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  http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/arts/story.html?id=d1227742-43f0-448a-98dc-05f22c1bdd25

  A poetry festival beyond description

  Montreal Zen centre launches event as it looks toward a move from benevolent landlord Leonard Cohen
  PAT DONNELLY, The Gazette
  Published: Thursday, March 15, 2007

  The abbess is in. Her name is Myokyo. She serves green tea and talks of a newborn literary festival devoted to Zen poetry and her dreams of raising enough funds to secure a larger, permanent home temple (called Enpuku-ji) for Rinzai Zen in Montreal.

  For 12 years, the Centre Zen de la Main at 30 Vallieres St. on the Plateau has been living rent-free, thanks to the generosity of a landlord who also happens to be a Zen Buddhist - and a poet, not to mention a pop music icon: Leonard Cohen.
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