About Carl (Poet):

Carl Scharwath, has appeared globally with 170+ journals selecting his poetry, short stories, interviews, essays, plays or art. Three poetry books Journey to Become Forgotten (Kind of a Hurricane Press) Abandoned (Scars Tv) and Lake County Poets Anthology have been published. His first photography book was published by Praxis. His photography was also exhibited in the Mount Dora Center for The Arts and Leesburg Center for The Arts galleries. Carl is the art editor for Minute Magazine (USA,) has a monthly interview column with the Venetian Bay Neighbors Magazine, a competitive runner, and a 2nd degree black- belt in Taekwondo.

A Statement from Carl:

"I created this piece as a series on "Women OF History" to honor those women who first blazed a trail in their writings for Women's history month. I selected Luzviminda Gabato Rivera to read my poem as she is also an accomplished woman in her career and her writings. We have previously worked together as she selected two of my photos to grace the covers of her poetry books."

About Luzviminda (Reader):

Luzviminda Gabato Rivera is from the Philippines. She is a multi-awarded and nine-time Amazon bestselling author in 14 months, an excellent international research journal reviewer and editorial board member, multi-awarded researcher, international motivational speaker and nurse.

She finished her postgraduate courses with academic distinction and academic excellence awards such as the Doctor of Public Administration (her 6th degree). She took up units leading to a Bachelor of Law.

She has published eight books, namely: A Gift , A Gift II , composed of 71 poems and translations of her A Gift in 5 series to 23 languages of 17 countries; Crossroads II: A Poets Life Journey –4th Anthology of Motivational Strips composed of 83 World’s Best Poets and A Memoir of Love – A Quadrilingual ( English, Italian, French and Spanish) in various poetic forms (free verse, haiku, rhyme scheme, sonnet, and tanka); Love Spell – A Collection of Sonnets in Asian and European Languages; A Gift III, and Life Essence (Poetic Shades of Life) and Whispers of the Soul (Multilingual Sonnets). All eight books became Rank 1 Amazon bestsellers. Also, her poems have been published in international e-zines and magazines.

She has received multiple recognitions. The latest is for her literary excellence at par with global standards by Motivational Strips and Gujarat Sahitya Academy of India and 50th Independence Day of Nigeria by Inked with Magic. She also placed first in the Southeast Asian Intercontinental Poetry Award, which was posthumous tribute to the great poet Kairat Duissenov Parman by the Union Hispanomundial De Escritores (UHE). She was also chosen as the sole poet from the Philippines as the Most Outstanding of 2020 En El Continente de Asia by the Union Hispanomundial De Escritores.

She is the Executive National President for Philippines of the Union Hispanomundial De Escritores.

She serves as the Administrator for the Philippine Office of Motivational Strips and an approving editor of Bharath Vision website magazine based in India. 

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