Guestbook Republic of Poetry

In the peasant family, “Zakariya Amataya”, born on May 25, 1975 at Narathiwat, Thailand.  He began writing poetry when he studied in The Islam Sciences, Arabic Language and Literature at Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, India After completing his study, he back to Thailand and started to publicize his works on internet as well as various magazines  In 2004, his hand made book ‘Is there any bomb under my playground?’ was selected to get a reward from Indy Book Awards II, his poem ‘Tell God Hungry’ won 1 of 5 Thai poetry from the autumn festival of poetry by Alliance Française de Bangkok and publish in Transversales poetiques Nowadays, Zakariya still writing and translating poetry written by many foreign poets. The idea of the republic of poetry is inspired by the  poetry of Martin Espada that I have translated this poem which published on ‘The postman of a youngpoet’ my column in Pacarayasara magazine.