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Stevens Taeho Han

Stevens Taeho Han, Ph.D (born in April 7, 1952) is a Korean-born Canadian poet, literary critic, author, translator, who was short-listed for the finalists of the CBC Literary Award in 2009. He is a Zen poet, who always aspires for the invisible aspects of the mysterious life on a dewy knife of grass.

Biography
Tae Ho Han was born in Tan Yang (Red Light), Korea. He grew up in the ecological, natural beauty of Bamboo Mt., the backbone of The Great White Mt. and the Han River,the umbilical cord of South Korea. He was deeply imbued with this mountainous pastoralism and scenic riverscapes throughout his childhood. His favorite memories always linger on the snaky trains steaming on the silver-shining rails and the shimmering shards on the skirts of the poplar trees on the embankment. He went to Je Chon Secondary School and studied English Literature at Chong Ju University. He became a simulataneous interpreter after the graduate study of Korean-English simultaneous Interpretation and Translation at the Foreign Studies of Han Kuk University, Seoul. He received the doctorate in English Literature from Han Yang University, Seoul.

He bacame a professor at Woo Song University in Tae Jon in 1985. He moved to Kwan Dong University in 1998 and taught Creative Writing and English Literature. He retired himself 10 years earlier than the formal retirement and travelled around the world to fill in his Life List to do during his lifetime.

He was invited as a reader and feature poet to the Kuala Lumpur Literary Festival, Malaysia in 2004,and also invited to the Croatia Literary Festival in 2005 and broadcast his poetry nationwide during the interview with the Croatian National Radio. He was honorably invited to the Kerala International Poets Festival, India in 2006. He was an editor of Korean Poetry Magazines, Monthly or Quarterly, such as Poetry and Reality, Poetry and World, Lyric Poetics, and Modern Poetry Literature. He is now an editor of Poetic Directions in Seoul.

He moved to Canada in 2008 and resided in Toronto, Ontario, working as a translator and free-lance writer. In 2009, he won the first prize in poetry at the Stellar Literary Festival in Oshawa. He became the finalist in the category of poetry at the CBC Literary Award in 2009. He was rendered a full fellowship for the Residency Program by Vermont Studio Center in Vermont, USA in 2010. His poems are published by the Heart, Nostaligia Press in South Carolina, USA. His electronic poem books are circulated on Goodreads and Bookrix.

He published his English poem book in 2005, whose title is "A Wooden Ox Rocks Zagreb", reviewed by the Halifax Herald in 2008. He has two Korean poem books, A Roof without the House and Transport to Summer, funded by the Yong In Literary Association, and two textbooks on poetics and creative writing in Korean.

He is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets(LCP). He is a Zen Poet, who is enthusiatically active in producing poetry based on the Zen poetics and interested in how to press out the Zen ideas into the Western poetics. His doctoral disseration is written on "The Poetics of Zen in the Work of Wallace Stevens: An Eastern Approach to His Poetry."

He wrote a novel,A Korean Wild Cat: Sirasoni in 2007 and several short stories in Korean.

Honors and Awards

 * CBC Literary Award,short listed in 2009.
 * First Prize in Poetry, Stellar Award, 2009
 * Honorable Mentioning in the Heart Poetry Contest, Nostaligia Press, SC, 2010.
 * Honorable Fund by Korean Art Council in 2004.
 * Full Fellowship by Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, 2010.