Peter is featured in a travelling exhibition in America. The exhibition features the likes of Catherine Zeta Jones, Anthony Hopkins, Tom Jones, and some others who have been embraced by America.

Welsh American History:
The Welsh Assembly Government's ' Welsh in America' travelling exhibition will be at the following venues in 2010:

June 18th- July 1 st:
Granville Historical Museum, Granville, Ohio

July 3rd- August 3rd:
Bangor Heritage Center, Bangor, Pennsylvania

August 5th- August 25th:
Welsh America Heritage Museum, Oak Hill, Ohio

August 28th- Sep 5th:
North American Festival of Wales, Portland, Oregon

September 27th- October 15th:
Gomer United Church of Christ, Gomer, Ohio

November 12th- 20th:
Annual Global Expo, UCHL, Houston, Texas

The Walking with Dylan DVD, based on the Dylan Thomas Walking Tour of Greenwich Village, New York , written by Peter and Aeronwy Thomas, daughter of Dylan Thomas, and commissioned by Catrin Brace of the Welsh Assembly in New York, will be available later this year. It was filmed in New York in May 2009, with Peter as narrator and Stanley H. Barkan (Cross-Cultural Communications, New York) as organiser of the event.

The DVD also features Stanley, poets invited to be a part of the filming of the event, singer Michela Musolino, and some songs about Dylan Thomas by Swansea's singer-songwriter Terry Clarke.

Written and performed by Martin Shears, singer and songwriter

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Martin writes on his website: This is an overture I was asked to write for a verse play by the Welsh poet Peter Thabit Jones. The play was performed for the first time in Monterey, CA, along with this recorded version of my overture. The aforementioned author, director John Dotson, and audience were very pleased with the piece.

NEW POETRY COLLECTION

Cross-Cultural Communications West presents

The Boy and the Lion's Head

a verse drama

by Peter Thabit Jones

The Lion's Head is a formation in stone, a bit larger than a full-grown African male lion. It is not man-made but shaped by time and the natural forces. ~ PTJ

The unknown man Simon Hunt

The unknown woman Marilee Childs

The grandmother Deanna McKinstry-Edwards

The grandfather Langston Johnson

The boy Garland Thompson, Jr.

Music by Martin Shears

Directed by John Dotson

World-premiere performance

Monday, May 17, 2010

McGowan House

Monterey

Peter has been invited back to America in April 2010 for six weeks.

He will be visiting poet at Binghamton University, State University of New York, as the guest of Maria Mazziotti Gillan, who runs The Poetry Center in New Jersey.

He will also give various poetry readings and literary talks, including venues such as the Baruch College in Manhattan, hosted by Professor Sultan Catto of City University of New York, and The North Sea Poetry Scene on Long Island, during his stay.

He will then travel to Monterey, California, for several poetry readings and literary talks, and then reside at Big Sur for the whole month of May as a writer-in-residence, the guest of Carolyn Mary Kleefeld. His recently published verse drama, THE BOY AND THE LION'S HEAD, will be performed publicly for the first time in Monterey, California, directed by dramatist, poet and biographer John Dotson.

The organiser of his New York visit is his American publisher Stanley H. Barkan of Cross-Cultural Communications, New York.

Peter returns to Romania in November/December 2009 for a week of events, including the official launch of his verse drama, The Boy and the Lion's Head , poetry readings at various venues, media interviews and as visiting poet to three colleges. He will be hosted by Dr. Olimpia Iacob, his translator.

Romania 2009 (Nov /Dec) - Click here for latest photos


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Read the critical article on Peter's The Boy and the Lion's Head
by Professor Zotta of Romania .pdf

POETRY AND ART PROJECT IN ITALY

Peter is the English-language judge of the 2010 Left Coast Eisteddfod Poetry Competition, organised by americymru in America .

Left Coast Eisteddfod 2010 Poetry Competition Now Accepting Submissions

Peter's verse drama, THE BOY AND THE LION'S HEAD, is to be published by Citadela Publishing House, Romania. His publisher is Aurel Pop,
who is also a poet and journalist. The bilingual edition (Romanian and English), which has been translated by Dr. Olimpia Iacob, will include a
12 page Commentary on the verse drama by New York poet and critic Vince Clemente. It will be a study text for university students and a commercial text.

New pictures in the Photo Gallery from Peter's second tour of America.

Peter and singer-songwriter Terry Clarke have been filmed by a crew
of The Wales Show, a weekly arts and entertainment television series
on HTV, presented by Andrea Benfield, for a forthcoming programme. It highlights the planned American dvd of the Walking Guide of Dylan Thomas's Greenwich Village, New York, which is being produced by Stanley H. Barkan's Cross-Cultural Communications. Peter talks about
his upcoming May to June visit to New York, which will see him giving poetry readings and talks, including some at the Wales International Center in the Chrysler Building, and he reads one of his poems in Swansea places connected with Dylan Thomas. Terry performs two of
his songs about Dylan Thomas, which are from his next album of
songs about the Welsh legend.

Check out the blog post 'Peter Thabit Jones and John Good to Judge Left Coast Eisteddfod Poetry Competition!'