News

Summer 2008

Flavia went to Romania from May 4th to June 2nd, 2008, participating in poetry readings, conferences, and public speaking.

She is slated to attend a conference at Vilnius University in Lithuania in October 2008, "Texts and Contexts: Interactive Perspectives".

Flavia will soon release a book of her poems, translated by Manuel Serrano Pérez into Spanish. Read the Spanish translations here.

Winter and Spring 2008

Flavia's poetry collection Songs of the Aegean Sea made the short list in the 2007 Canadian Aid Literary Awards. Songs of the Aegean Sea will be published by Cervena Barva Press.

Flavia's poetry collection The Season of Love will be released by Cervena Barva Press on April 16, 2008, and there will be a reading and reception at Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge, MA.

On March 18, 2008, Flavia will participate in a poetry reading at the University of Toronto, from 1:30-3:30pm.

Flavia will go to Argentina from February 3 to March 1. She will conduct some readings and inaugurate the Proyecto Victoria Ocampo in the Puan locality, Buenos Aires Province.

On Jan. 12, Flavia was a guest reader at the Vaughan Poets' Circle, in Thornhill, ON.

A Country of One Poems in Romanian and English, a Virtual Book by Brindin Press

Fall and Winter 2007

Readings, launchings, and public speeches

June 7, 2007 Launch of Gothic Calligraphy, Toronto Writer's Center

July 1, 2007 Speaking at Yonge-Dundas Square, World Refugees Day

July 2, 2007 Speaking about Canada at the Nuns of St. Joseph, Toronto

October 17, 2007 Launch of Neant Binevoitor (poems), Cântece la Marea Egee (poems) and Teatru pentru Copii Mici şi Mara (drama) - Muzeul Literaturii Romane, Iaşi, Romania

October 18, 2007 Speaking about Human Rights in Multicultural Canada and The Condition of Writers In Exile at the University of Iaşi, Romania

October 19, 2007 Launch of Neant Binevoitor (poems), Cântece la Marea Egee (poems) and Teatru pentru Copii Mici şi Mara (drama) - Head Offices of Civic Alliance, Oradea, Romania

October 20, 2007 Speaking about Human Rights in Multicultural Canada and The Condition of Writers In Exile at the University of the North, Baia Mare, Romania

October 22, 2007 Launch of Neant Binevoitor (poems), Cântece la Marea Egee (poems) and Teatru pentru Copii Mici şi Mara (drama) - at the Goldiş University, Satu Mare, Romania

October 27, 2007 Speaking about Human Rights in Multicultural Canada and The Condition of Writers In Exile at the University of Bucharest, Romania

November 24, Launch of Variety Crossing, at U of T, Hart House, Music Room, 6:30pm

December 3, 2007 Poetry Reading - Cooked and Eaten Events, 2007-08 season - Cervantes Restaurant, 211 Hunter St. W. Peterborough, ON 7:30pm

New Publications

Neant Binevoitor (poems) Ediura SEMNE, Bucharest, 2007 ISBN 973-624-533-0

Cântece la Marea Egee (poems) Ars Longa, Iasi, Romania, 2007 ISBN 973-8912-74-1

Teatru pentru Copii Mici şi Mara (drama) Biblioteca Revistei Familia, Oradea, Romania, 2007 ISBN 978-973-9401-73-9

The Adventures of Tommy Teddy Bear and Alex Little Bunny a children's book, Korean Canadian Literary Forum-21, Toronto, ON, 2007 ISBN 9780978202019

Literary Magazines, Anthologies

Citadela, Satu Mare, Romania, Sept. 2007
a. Cerul de Lapte - poem
b. Trei Inimi - poem

Variety Crossing Volume 9, Toronto, ON Nov. 2007
a. The Word - poem

Summer 2007

Santa Fe Institute Residency - July 5 to July 30

Anthology Murmurs of Voices / Murmure des voix / Murmurul Vocilor, Cogito Publishing House, 2007:
a. Bilingual Poems by Flavia Cosma: The Oldest of the Old, Nocturnal Silence, Resurrection, If I Could Be..., In the Arms of the Father
b. Translations by Flavia Cosma of poems by Gloria Mindock, George Elliott Clarke, Dae-Tong Huh

A Canadian Anthology of Poetry Butterfly Thunder, A Beret Days Book, 2007
Blind Bird and The Moon’s Body, poems by Flavia Cosma

Verse Afire, Tri-Annual Publication of The Ontario Poetry Society Leaves of a Diary 18, poem by Flavia Cosma

Citadela, Literary Magazine, Satu-Mare, Romania
Translations by Flavia Cosma of two poems by Gloria Mindock

The poems Autumn Morning, Midnight Thoughts, Angels’ Feathers, The Omens, The Sighing and Road of Autumn - Published in August by Brindin.com, England

A Country of One, selected poems by Flavia Cosma, an E-Book, published by Brindin Press, England, September 2007

Istanbul Literary Review - September 2007
a. Beyond, Lament, Stones-Words, Hazy Twilight, Under the Cover of Time - Poems by Flavia Cosma
b. Rhodes or Rhodos or Rodi - Travel memoir by Flavia Cosma (Fragment)

Spring 2007

On July 2, 2007, Flavia went to London, England to accept third prize in the John Dryden Translation Competition.

Flavia Cosma and Charles Siedlecki are delighted to announce their latest literary accomplishment:

Third Prize in the John Dryden Translation Competition 2007, for the translation of In The Arms of The Father, poems by Flavia Cosma

• Sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association and the British Centre for Literary Translation
• The award ceremony will take place at the BCLA conference at Goldsmith’s in London, UK, in July 2007.
• An extract from their entry will be published in Comparative Critical Studies, the journal of the BCLA, later this year.

Launch of Gothic Calligraphy

Thursday, June 7, 2007, 6:30 PM

Presented by George Elliott Clarke, Charles Siedlecki and Krzysztof Zarzecki

The Toronto Writers’ Centre
101 Yorkville Avenue, Suite 200, Toronto
Tel. (416) 975-5172
Email md@writerscentre.ca

Free admission

Poetry Reading

On May 16, 2007, Flavia participated in a poetry reading presented by DRAFT
Artist's Play Studio Theatre, 216 Carlaw, Unit 209, Toronto
Also reading: George Elliott Clarke, Phyllis Gottlieb, Pasha Malla, Rob McLennan, and Merle Nudelman
For more information: 416-433-4170 bodylanguage@sympatico.ca

Writer-In-Residence

Flavia Cosma has been accepted for a month-long stay during July of 2007, as a resident-writer at the Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Flavia Cosma was invited for a third time to Rhodes by the International Writers' and Translators' Centre of Rhodes, from September 16, 2007 to October 16, 2007.

Public Speaking Engagements

• May 1, 2007, 10:00am - speaking on Human Rights to students at Henry Hudson Public School, Scarborough
• May 8, 2007 "Reality Day" Flavia Cosma will be speaking about television documentary production at a career day event, at J. Clarke Richardson Collegiate, Ajax, ON

New Publications
Her latest poetry manuscript, Songs at the Aegean Sea, was accepted for publication by Cervena Barva Press, Somerville, Massachusetts. The same press will publish two other books of poetry for Flavia Cosma: Gothic Calligraphy (March 2007), and The Season of Love (July 2007). The chapbook Gothic Calligraphy, Cervena Barva Press 2007, came out of the press and is ready for distribution. An official launching will be announced shortly.

Flavia's poem Winter Again was accepted for publication for the Spring 2007 issue of Salted River Review.

Book launch in Romania
Flavia Cosma went to Romania on March 14, 2007 to launch Poeme Incendiare (Incendiary Poems) by George Elliott Clarke (Translated into the Romanian by Flavia Cosma)

Among the cities they visited to launched the book: Oradea, Satu Mare, Baia Mare, and Bucharest.

Award

Flavia Cosma received an Honorable Mention Award for her poem Cradle-Song, published in the recent anthology Open Heart 1 (The Ontario Poetry Society).

Winter 2006-07

Public Speaking Engagements:
February 14, 2007 reading and lecturing about poetry at Nellie's Women's Shelter, Toronto
December 6, 2006, speaking to 100 students at Cornell Jr. Public School, about Human Rights and Refugee Camps.

• Saturday, Nov. 25, 2006, 6pm, Hart House-Music Room, free, launching of Variety Crossings, NR. 8
• Sunday, Dec. 3, 2006, 1 pm, The Victory Cafe, 581 Markham Street (behind Honest Ed's). The Ontario Poetry Society-The Annual Winter Warm-Up Poetry Fest. The event is free.
• Saturday, Dec. 9, 2006, 9 am, The Christmas gathering of Writers and Editors Network (WEN), Canadiana Restaurant, on Dundas near Keele Station. This event includes breakfast and it costs $16.00
• Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006, 7pm, Year's End Gathering of Canadian Authors Association (Toronto Branch) at Northview Library Orchard View Boulevard, (Yonge and Eglinton Area). Free for members, $5.00 for non-members.

Newspaper articles from summer of 2006

Flavia Cosma şi sinceritatea discursului poetic
Întâlnire cu poezia Flavia Cosma
Ieri au fost lansate trei cărţi ale Flaviei Cosma

Autumn 2006

• September 15, 2006 Anamaria Felecan defends her Master's thesis "Flavia Cosma, an International Poet" North University, Baia Mare, Romania, obtaining an "Excellent" mark.
• David Mills, poet, composer, writer, reviews Leaves of a Diary ("Canadian Poet Ponders Life's Deep Mysteries")
• Flavia Cosma has translated into Romanian Poeme Incendiare (Incendiary Poems) by George Elliott Clarke. It was published in Romania by Cogito Press, Sept. 2006.