La Mulţi Ani 2023! Joyeuse Nouvelle Année! Happy New Year 2023! ¡Feliz y próspero año nuevo! De parte de Flavia Cosma

QUIET SACRIFICES: TWO LIFETIMES OF VOLUNTEERING IN CANADIAN POETRY RECOGNIZED BY LEAGUE OF CANADIAN POETS Infolettre mai 2023 pdf Flavia Cosma receives the Colleen Thibaudeau Award 2023 From all of us at the League of Canadian Poets, thank you for all that you do!
Querid@s amig@s tengo el agrado de comunicarles la publicación de la obra antológica Azzáyt, el carmen del olivar, donde fui invitada a participar. Dear Friends, I am pleased to announce the publication of the anthological work Azzáyt, el carmen del olivar, where I was invited to participate. Read more...
Querid@s amig@s, Fui muy afortunada por haber sido invitada a participar la semana pasada en el VIII Encuentro Internacional de escritores sin fronteras organizado por Grupo literario Luceria y la Municipalidad de Federación, provincia de Entre Ríos. Fue un evento magnífico de poesía y arte, encontré amigos poetas de larga data de Argentina y demás el mundo, y compartí con ellos mi poesía y mi fotografía en una muestra intitulada LAS MIRADAS. Todo esto fue un gran éxito y agradezco a los organizadores y a la presidenta Graciela Paoli por la oportunidad. Agradezco a la Municipalidad de Federación por la ORDENANZA N* 2.402-H.C.D.ARTÍCULO 2* por darme la Cordial Bienvenida (Flavia Cosma--Rumania-Canadá) por recibir la Distinción HUÉSPED de HONOR de la ciudad de FEDERACIÓN años anteriores. Dear Friends, I was very honored to have been invited to participate on March 17, 18, and 19, 2023 in the VIII International Meeting of Writers Without Borders organized by Grupo Literario Luceria and the Municipality of Federation, province of Entre Ríos, Argentina. It was a magnificent event full of poetry and art, where I met long-standing friends from Argentina and the rest of the world, and I shared with them my poetry and my photography in an exhibition entitled LAS MIRADAS. All this was a great success and I thank the organizers and the president Graciela Paoli for the opportunity. I thank the Municipality of Federation for the ORDINANCE N* 2.402-H.C.D. ARTICLE 2* for giving me the Cordial Welcome (Flavia Cosma--Romania-Canada) for having received the GUEST of HONOR Distinction from the city of FEDERATION in previous years. Chers amis, chères amies, J'ai eu beaucoup de chance d'avoir été invité à participer les 17, 18 et 19 de mars 2023 à la VIIIe Rencontre Internationale des Écrivains Sans Frontières organisée par le Grupo Literario Luceria et la Municipalité de la Fédération, province d'Entre Ríos, Argentina. Ce fut un événement magnifique plein de poésie et d'art, où j'ai rencontré des amis poètes de longue date d'Argentine et du reste du monde, et j'ai partagé avec eux ma poésie et la photographie dans une exposition intitulée LAS MIRADAS. Tout cela a été un grand succès et je remercie les organisateurs et la présidente Graciela Paoli de cette opportunité. Je remercie la Municipalité de Fédération pour l'ORDONNANCE N* 2.402-H.C.D. Article 2* pour m'avoir donné la Cordiale Bienvenue (Flavia Cosma--Roumanie-Canada) pour avoir reçu la distinction d'invité d'honneur, distinction qui m'était décernée par la ville de la Fédération dans les années précédentes. Voici quelques poèmes du livre Fieras y sombras (Mirada Malva, Granada, Spain, 2018) récités par moi à l'occasion: Respuestas          Flavia Cosma La noche se llena de torbellinos de estrellas (a ti te habría gustado esta cosa, Vincent Van Gogh). Conocemos las respuestas antes de preguntar. La luna aparece pesada por entre los pinos, turbado, el triste borracho empieza a mascullar perdiendo su cordura. La gente se apura, hace colas para ver a los psicólogos, psiquiatras mediadores, chamanes, gurús, curanderos evitando con cierto disimulo aquello qui está sangrando en la cruz por nuestros pecados, por los poemas que hemos alejado de nosotros o nos negamos a escribir. Porque todo agobio conduce más temprano o más tarde a la no existencia; el único logro exitoso en la vida es engañar al tiempo. Traducción Luis Raúl Calvo Sin rastros          Flavia Cosma El animal salvaje, menos salvaje ahora agacha su cabeza en mis palmas. En momentos de vigilia, casi somnoliento, se olvida de las preocupaciones, cierra los ojos relajando las orejas puntiagudas. Su pequeño corazón no se sobresalta más frente a cualquier crujido de hojas, cayendo abajo el frio y la lluvia. Pasamos juntos un tiempo, como una eternidad cuando todas las cosas se pronuncian tras los latidos del corazón. Luego, sacudiéndose como frente a una descarga él sale moviendo su cuerpo, deslizándose a lo largo y a lo ancho del camino. El otoño lo atrapa sin dejar rastros. Traducción Luis Raúl Calvo Misterios          Flavia Cosma En la estrecha cama inventamos otros sabores para el beso descubrimos otro nombre para el amor en la frontera entre los años construimos frases débiles para describir el misterio que nos une la dulce pasión que poco a poco nos corta las alas. Traducción Luis Raúl Calvo
Lancement du livre "D'une humeur à l'autre" poèmes de Flavia Cosma, Editions du Cygne, Paris, France, 2022, ISBN 978-2-84924-708-2, Centre d'exposition Val-David, QC, 4 septembre 2022.
Speaking in Tongues —Poets Translating Themselves— —Interlingual and Intercultural Poetry— Workshop conducted on ZOOM by Flavia Cosma Participants 1. Flavia Cosma 2. Analia Daporta 3. Andrey Gritsman 4. Bina SarkarEllias 5. Eva Halus 6. Linda Morales Caballero 7. Jonathan Locke Hart 8. Imene Bennani 9. Janine Pioger 10.John Mallette 11. Leilei Chen This workshop is open to all members of the League of Canadian Poets and to members of the Writers’ Union of Canada This workshop is open to the public Registration is required No admission fees Comments by participants Accent Montreal INTERPOEZIA (in limba RUSA) Dear friends, chers amis, cheres amies, querid@s amig@s, the workshop “Speaking in Tongues”—Poets Translating Themselves—was a resounding success. Thank you very much for your commitment and your invaluable contribution in the debates. You brought to the Round Table your "Hands On" experiences, so that all of us could learn something from each other, something important and useful in the future. All of you were great!!! I hope that every one of the participants enriched his/her knowledge on the subject of poetry translation. You are such an inspiration! I am really blessed. Warmly Flavia Cosma--Workshop Coordinator
News 2022 Interview with Flavia Cosma by John Wisniewski published in Cervena Barva Press January Newsletter, 2022 Dear friends, chers amis, cheres amies, querid@s amig@s, I am very pleased to share the latest LINK CKCU Literary News--Contexts for reading Wednesday January 12th, 2022 with Hans G. Ruprecht & Friederike Knabe Six internationally acclaimed and award-winning writers read in context: Sadiqa de Meijer, Flavia Cosma, Joséphine Bacon, Norma Dunning, Esi Edugyan and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr.
News 2021 "Lecture d'été" Lancement du livre Temp de moisson, 7 août, 2021 Centre d'exposition, Val-David, QC I am thrilled to acknowledge the the publication of my Elegies in the prestigious Literary Magazine KNOT. Thank you very much Kristen Scott and Imene Chaabane Bennani. Dedication: I dedicate these verses to those who attracted by non-existence descend the steps of time learning in their fall the mysteries of flight. For them I dressed in red, took the bull by the antlers and learned a few things about love. www.knotliteraturemagazine.com/flavia-cosma Marché de la Poésie 20 a 24 octobre 2021 @MDLPParis · mon livre « Temps de moisson » publié cette année par Editions du Cygne, Paris, France, est dans les "nouveautés officielles" au Marché de la Poésie de Paris du 20 au 24 octobre 2021. Merci infiniment la Maison d’Edition et son directeur Patrice Kanozsai. In the Arms of the Father - Trailer Accent Montreal - Flavia Cosma și Festivalul Internațional de Poezie de la Val-David Conferinta lui OFELIA Uta-Burcea in cadrul Feastivalului International de la Val-David, publicata in Generacion Abierta, Buenos Aires, Argentina Federico García Lorca, el ángel caído, a 85 años de su asesinato, por Ofelia M. Uta Burcea Le nouveau livre de Flavia:Temps de moisson - poemes Editions du Cygne, Paris, France, Preface Louis-Philippe Hebert, Postface Helene Dorion Photographie couverture Flavia Cosma (du cycle "Automne à Val-David" Centro Cultural Luis Borges de Buenos Aires, Argentine 2019) BANALITY OF EVIL COVID-19 PART 2
News 2020 Piso VII C por FLAVIA COSMA Poe3ía y Opinión - SIN LÍMITES por FLAVIA COSMA - Traducción de Luis Raúl Calvo The Power of Poetry by Flavia Cosma essay by Flavia Cosma--National Poetry Month--The League of Canadian Poets--April 2020 Dear friends, chers amis/cheres amies, querid@s amig@s, I am delighted to let you know that my poem "A New Shirt" was just published by Columba, Winter 2020. Grateful thanks Emily Tristan Jones. Poema AL CABO DEL DIA por FLAVIA COSMA en Poe3ia y Opinion. POR EL MAGICO BOSQUE DE LAS EMOCIONES, LEER EL POEMA HACIENDO CLICK EN EL SIGUIENTE ENLACE: O también por Google: Poe3ía y Opinión. enero 31 Flavia Cosma.jpg LOS MISTERIOS DE FLAVIA COSMA ABREN EL 2020 UN POEMA QUE PUEDEN LEER HACIENDO CLICK EN EL SIGUIENTE ENLACE
News 2019 Diverses Cités - Flavia Cosma — Val-David News 2018 Flavia Cosma - Due inediti (Traduzione di Giuliano Ladolfi) Atelier Poesia Caloretti Editores Parnas XXI Versuri de ieri și de azi - FLAVIA COSMA - SĂLBĂTICIUNI ȘI UMBRE Nuevo libro editado por Mirada Malva, Cuentos de hadas a la luz de la luna de Flavia Cosma, con unas hermosas ilustraciones del artista Ioan Balcosi y traducción al español de Luis Raúl Calvo. CRÍTICA DE LIBROS: CUENTOS DE HADAS A LA LUZ DE LA LUNA, DE FLAVIA COSMA Flavia Cosma at the XVII Festival de Val-David, 9 and 10 June 2018 Fieras y sombras de Flavia Cosma News 2017 Cinco poemas de Flavia Cosma, Una hoja un libro Comunicat de presa: Flavia Cosma, The Poetic Bond VII Comunicat de presa: Flavia Cosma, 6 noiembrie 2017 The XVI Writers and Artists Festival at Val-David, QC, Canada, 7 and 8 Oct 2017 Poemas en la Revista Cultural Calle B, Cuba Flavia Cosma - Fauves et ombres - Éditions du Cygne, Paris, 2017 Certificate of Achievement presented to Flavia Cosma In recognition for volunteering time and effort as a Passages speaker Flavia Cosma huespede distinguido Municipalidad de Federación Poe3ía y Opinión - Flavia Cosma - EL MAR TRANSTORNADO Decouvrir mrc Laurentides - Festival international des écrivains et artistes de Val-David
News 2016 O scriitoare română de prestigiu din Canada - Flavia Cosma Revista ASLRQ - Flavia Cosma - Poeme din volumul "Sălbăticiuni şi umbre" AERA en la SADE Ciclo de Lecturas Poéticas (2004 – 2016) El café del Grupo AERA, coordinado por Alejandro Drewes, tiene el placer de presentar el jueves 27 de octubre a las 20.30 hs. en la sede de la Sociedad Argentina de Escritores, Uruguay 1371, salón auditorio del tercer piso, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, el siguiente programa de lecturas: PROGRAMA APERTURA Lectura de textos de los poetas rumanos: PAUL CELAN DENISA COMANESCU ELENA LILIANA POPESCU en versiones castellanas, a cargo del coordinador, Alejandro Drewes PRESENTACIÓN Y LECTURA DE TEXTOS DE LA POETA E INVITADA ESPECIAL DEL GRUPO AERA, FLAVIA COSMA COUP DE COEUR DES MEMBRES Flavia Cosma: Lectura Embajada de Rumania en Buenos Aires Our international editor, Flavia Cosma, has a new book out called "The Latin Quarter" published by MadHat Press. Click here to order Flavia's book from MadHat Press Click here to order Flavia's book from Amazon Mar del Plata, Argentina Conference--Flavia Cosma-Peregrina de la palabra by Susana Cattaneo, Buenos Aires 13 June 2016 COSMA FLAVIA peregrina del mundo en la palabra por Susana Cataneo MadHat Press - Latin Quarter by Flavia Cosma
Revista Asociatiei Scriitorilor din Brazilia - Pagina 5 Brasilia, Brazil March 17 2016, Homage International for the Brazilian poet Anderson Braga Horta. Poesis. Flavia Cosma. Graiul Maramuresului Afis Lansare Flavia Cosma la Ambasada Romaniei din Buenos Aires 15 decembrie 2015

News 2015 Letras & Musica - Invitadxs FLAVIA COSMA SCRIITOARE ROMANO/CANADIANA --LANSAREA CARTILOR SALBATICIUNI SI UMBRE (ED. ARS LONGA) SI LINISTE DIVINA (ED. AMANDA VERLAG (ROMANO/ALBANEZA) VINERI 4 SEPTEMBRIE ORA 1.30 PM CEAINARIA ANETTE STRADA POLONA NUMARUL 77 CU ACEASTA OCAZIE SE VA LANSA SI VOLUMUL VIATA REALA SI ALTE POEME AL POETULUI ARGENTINIAN LUIS RAUL CALVO Revista Shqiptari, Nr. 5, Bukuresht, Maj 2015 (pag. 45-49) CONFLUENŢE LITERARE - Daniel Marian despre poezia lui Flavia Cosma ecreator.ro - Poezii de Flavia Cosma Poe3ía y Opinión - Arenas movedizas por Flavia Cosma The English edition of “World Poetry Yearbook 2014” was published CONFLUENŢE LITERARE - MARILE ARDERI ÎN POEZIA FLAVIEI COSMA, AUTOR LUCIAN GRUIA Gaceta Literaria Virtual, pagina 29, Flavia Cosma, LOS HUEVOS, traduccion de Luis Raúl Calvo LOS HUEVOS De donde he acumulado anoche tantos huevos, que en mi sueño se rompían ruidosamente al mezclarlos, transformándolos en una pasta blanda, como un corazón herido, confundido por la añoranza. La gente se amontonaba para el festín, los huevos chisporroteaban en el sartén, y yo pensaba: que pena destruir de una vez tantas semillas que habrían podido un día dar vida a tantos pájaros pues toda la gente sabe que si con pájaros vas a soñar amor vas a encontrar O noua carte de poezie bilingva romana/albaneza Liniste Divina Antologie romana/albaneza Anotimpul iubirii editie romano/albaneza) Poezi nga Flavia Cosma Zgârieturi pe fața oglinzii - recenzie de Adrian Erbiceanu in revista Tribuna Noastra GACETA VIRTUAL Nº 98–ENERO de 2015–Año IX–Nº1

News 2014 Elaguila-Alvarado Levure littéraire Levure littéraire ~ Numéro 10 Zgârieturi pe fața oglinzii - recenzie de Adrian Erbiceanu in revista Vatra Veche - pag 36-37 Poe3ía y Opinión : Continente del Sur por Flavia Cosma Gaceta Literaria Virtual Pagina 30 Vient de paraitre Quartier latin de Flavia COSMA Traduit du roumain par Denis EMORINE Quartier latin - de Flavia COSMA - Traduit du roumain par Denis EMORINE Auteurs dans la vallee 19, 20, 21, juillet 2014 THE BEST WORLD - guide travel (great people and places) - The International Writers’ and Artists’ Residence at Val-David, Quebec, Canada GACETA LITERARIA Nº 93– Agosto de 2014– Año VIII – Nº 8 GACETA LITERARIA Nº 93– Poem -Pagina 31 Antoaneta Turda - Focul ce ne arde - Recenzie Flavia Cosma – Five Poems, Muddy River Poetry Review Actorul Dorel Visan recitand din cartea Flaviei Cosma "Zgarieturi pe fata oglinzii" Targul de carte Alba Iulia, mai 2014. CERVENA BARVA PRESS READING SERIES WE ARE YOU PROJECT Amazing Things Art Center/160 Hollis Street, Framingham, MA Poetry Reading, Sunday, June 22nd 1:00-4:00PM Readers: Alan Britt, Mike Foldes, Flavia Cosma, Duda Penteado, Gloria Mindock This reading is part of the WE ARE YOU PROJECT: NEW ENGLAND EDITION June 19th-Aug. 3rd A group exhibition of 36 major contemporary Latino artists celebrating the contributions of US-Latinos within America's history. Reception: 6/21, 5:00-7:00PM Poetry Reading: 6/22, 1:00 (readers listed above) Documentary film: 6/25, 7:00PM I hope to see many of you at this! Le corps de la lune de Flavia Cosma Link de Poe3ía y Opinión (2) Link de Poe3ía y Opinión (1) Isla Negra - Flavia Cosma - april 2014.pdf Poe3ía y Opinión - El bronce de las estatuas por Flavia Cosma Poème Coup de Coeur du Comité On Her Own Path - Review by Diana Manole Four Points Contemporary 2nd Bi-annual International Art Competition La main d’acier de l’homme - TRANSLITERRA: terres d'écrits et itinéraires culturels El verano imposible por Flavia Cosma Flavia Cosma : Poèmes inédits en français Флавия Косма. Румыния-Канада. Ожидание Tú, guardador de misterios... por Flavia Cosma

News 2013 Cronică la cartea Trupul Lunii în Actualitatea Literară nr. 35, pagina 3, decembrie 2013 Vatra veche (page 32) Recenzie pentru "Zgarieturi pe fata oglinzii" Hart House: Living Library Projectw Sin Fronteras Antologia Anual Tomo II Poe3ía y Opinión - Editorial Cielo Gris - VEN AHORA… por Flavia Cosma Agentia de carte - Citind "Zgârieturi pe faţa oglinzii" de Flavia Cosma Isla Negra 9/358 septiembre 2013 Pagina 20 Flavia Cosma Rumania- Canadá Naufragio Hemos naufragado en el desierto de un estrecho cuarto de hotel; Nos quedaba una hora más o menos y una vida pasada, en contra; sobre el futuro nos aconsejamos uno al otro, tontamente, y también acerca de la muerte teníamos algo que decir, como vivirla si nos llega la hora. El resto era eternidad, inmortalidad, tiempo vencido; caricias apresuradas, incompletas, sonámbulas. Sofocados por el peso de los besos que regresaban desde el abismo exigiendo sus derechos, no nos atrevimos a contemplar el minuto siguiente, después de nuestro momento de gracia. Transliterra: terres d'écrits et itinéraires Ragazine - Poems by Luis Raúl Calvo, translated by Flavia Cosma Suleke Pimesi Poe3ía y Opinión Le bronze des statues - Publié par TRANSLITERRA "We Are You" Project by Flavia Cosma Laotra Revista de Poesia Transliterra Antonio Miranda La poesía une a los pueblos y acerca las culturas La marea sensible de Flavia Cosma La poesía une a los pueblos y acerca las culturas GRAN MARATÓN DE POETAS, 15 DE ABRIL, «DÍA DEL POETA PERUANO» Homenaje al 1er. Congreso de Poetas - Abril de 1985, en la Univ. Nacional de San Marcos. Se lanzará el libro homenaje: LOS HACEDORES DEL FUEGO. Compilación LUGAR: Casa de la Literatura- Lima HORA: De dos a ocho PM. DÍA: Lunes 15 de abril http://olandina.tv/ A todo el mundo desde la Casa de la Literatura Peruana LANZARÁN LA COMPILACIÓN NACIONAL: «CON SOLAZ Y FORZADO ATREVIMIENTO» (Con 33 atrevidos y forzados decimistas del Perú) También el libro de Flavia Cosma EL CUERPO DE LA LUNA INVITADOS EXTRAORDINARIOS Diana Alvarez Muñoz. Argentina Antonio Miranda. Brasil Flavia Cosma. Rumanía Flavia Cosma, poeta de origen rumano, escritora y traductora. Ha ganado premios como productora independiente de documentales para televisión, como directora y guionista. A lo largo de su carrera, ha recibido numerosos premios. Por citar algunos: Su libro 47 Poems (Texas Tech University Press) recibió el Premio ALTA Richard Wilbur Poetry in Translation, tercer premio en la competencia John Dryden Translation de 2007 por la co-traducción In The Arms of The Father, poemas propios (British Comparative Literature Association & British Literary Translation Centre). Etc. Fue condecorada como "Miembro de Honor, con Medalla de Oro por su labor de promoción cultural y docente", en la III Edición del Festival Internacional de Poetas Huari. Peru 2010.

Flavia Cosma featured on Levure littéraire

Flavia Cosma featured on TRANSLITERRA

Flavia Cosma featured on blog: Truck

Dear Flavia,
How wonderful to be able to share your amazingly beautiful, colourful and vigorous impressions from the Mediterranean world with all lovers of poetry and the famous Blue! I can see why you have been so highly praised in the international community!
Lines like these makes an old man that has studied both ancient archaeology and mythology (http://mediterraneanpoetry.blogspot.se/2012_09_01_archive.html) cry:
A nymph bathes in the sea,
A satyr wakens from his dream,
Into the silvery, ever-traveling tide
A solitary man-fish swims.
The evening –a brave maiden-
Descends over us.

Flocking in white bands,
Riding their winged horses,
And laughing,
The Gods sail away.

So, your poems have been posted at http://www.mediterranean.nu/?p=2378 right now! Please feel free to contact us at any time if you would like to alter or append anything you see on the post.

My very warmest wishes and THANKS (in “advance” from all the lovers of poetry and the Famous Blue that visit our site too) for your amazing contribution and I wish you all luck with your future work and hope for a word (poem) with a Mediterranean touch from you now and then!

Editor
Anders Dahlgren
Goteborg/Sweden
www.mediterranean.nu

News 2012

Un poem de mon livre "Le miel trouble du matin" publie dans TRANSLITERRA

Antologia "Desde todo el silencio", Argentina 2012

Le miel trouble du matin | Flavia Cosma

GACETA LITERARIA Noº 71– Octubre de 2012 - PÁGINA 28 – POESÍA ALLENDE EL MAR - Flavia Cosma

Hinchas de Poesia - Man’s Iron Hand - by Flavia Cosma

News 2011

Presentating the book Profane Incentidumbres by Luis Raul Calvo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=dUuy_beTueU

"Son innumerables los poetas de todos los tiempos que han cantado bajo todos los prismas el personaje del mendigo, pobre de solemnidad, pordiosero, andrajoso o harapiento, que también hay matices para tal menester… Uno puede encontrar, a bote pronto, referencias, las que se quiera, desde Job en el pasaje del rico Epulón en los textos sagrados cristianos o en Homero , Eurípides, Horacio, y cómo no, los mendigos de amor de Shakespeare, Molière o Donne y acá en la versión más histriónica del propio Quevedo. El Romanticismo y Simbolismo europeo configuraron, junto a la bohême y el spleen un manera estetizante del mendigo real o literario. No pocos autores parisinos, madrileños, londinenses, lisboetas o berlineses fueron, a su manera, mendigos de pro, de cultura raída en los bolsillos hueros. Li Po u Omar Khayyam ya se habían currado la figura del mendigo ebrio. El tema da para acotación obligada y tesis doctoral.
Flavia Cosma, otra autora de la diáspora rumana, lo sabe a la perfección y restituye en su poema un climax creciente hasta el último verso en el que aparece la palabra clave “cerşetor” en un expresivo vocativo. Sabe nuestra poeta que etimológicamente (lat. circitor) mendigo es el que da vueltas, deambula a la búsqueda de la limosna. Una limosna que, más allá del óbolo y la materialización de la caridad, nos acerca al carisma del Amor. Es en este sentido en donde Flavia Cosma liga su poema a los mejores poemas de los trovadores provenzales que describieron en ambas corrientes –la nobiliaria (Arnaut Daniel) y la burguesa (Rustebues)- la convención de captaire d’Amor."
Ensayo por Pere Besso i Gonzalez

• “Poetry with a Difference”
• “Celebración del Día Nacional de Rumania”
• “La poesía es una calle con doble dirección, un diálogo entre el poeta y los lectores”
• Revista Archivos Del Sur
• THE GREEN DOOR - ISSUE 5
• HILDAGARDS DAUGHTERS
• August - September 2011 - book presentation tour in Romania



• April 14 to April 21 2011 - International book presentation tour
• April 15 - Launching of a new book in Spanish Hojas de diario (Leave of a diary), in Lima, Peru at The National Day of the Peruvian Poets
• April 18 - Launching of the same book and an of an international women-poets anthology, in Cordoba, Mexico, at Casa de Cultura "Jorge Cuesta"
• April 19 - Launch in Medellin, Mexico
• April 20 - Launching of Hojas de diario in Veracruz, Mexico at the City Museum Coronel Manuel Gutiérrez Zamora

News 2009

Trip to Romania-- May 2, 2009 to June 10, 2009
Flavia Cosma is invited to:

• The Festival Lucian Blaga (Alba Iulia) where she'll launch the poetry book "Nimic pentru aici, nimic pentru dincolo" by Luis Raul Calvo, Argentina, translated from Spanish by Flavia Cosma.
• Oradea-launching of "La Portile Raiului" poems by Gloria Mindock, USA, translated from English by Flavia Cosma, Editura Cogito, Oradea.
• Iasi-launching of "Povestile Saptamanii", fairy tales by Flavia Cosma, Editura Ars Longa, Iasi.
• Timisoara-British American Studies Annual Conference, where Flavia Cosma will present a paper about Poetry and the art of translating it. Also as part of this program, Flavia will launch her latest poetry collection in English "Thus Spoke the Sea"
• Pitesti-The Canadian Studies Annual Conference, where Flavia Cosma will conduct a multilingual poetry reading.

Coming up soon:

• February 6, 2009 - Laurentian University, Sudbury - reading at prestigious Luminaries program
• March 4, 2009 - Noches de Poesia Festival, Montreal, Quebec, reading in English, Romanian and Spanish. Later that night, will be on Spanish-language radio program Poesia Libre, Montreal

Winter 2008-2009

• Visited Buenos Aires, Argentina from December 7-21, 2008
• Plumas de Angeles, poems in Spanish, published by Editorial Dunken, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 2008
• Seven poems from the circle Vara Argentina were published by Familia, Oct. 2008
• The poem Bury Me Gently from The Season of Love was read by George Elliott Clark on CBC Radio, November 2008
• Seven poems were published in Discobolul, Alba Iulia, Romania, November 2008
• Five poems were published in Gandul Romanesc, Alba Iulia, Romania, December 2008
• The poems When Someone Dies Unexpectedly and So Many Clocks In The House were published in the anthology Sounding the Seconds, 2008
• Revista Literaria Paralelo-30 Brazil - Finding You Again (3 languages)
• Appeared in September 2008 Issue of The Houston Literary Review, Argentine Summer II
• published in Almustaqbal Newspaper, Lebanon, with a translation in Arabic by Jackleen Salam, of the poem From Afar, Dec. 21, 2008
• Bio and pictures translated into Farsi and posted on the website of Afghanistan Women Writer's Union, Dec. 2008
• The Romanian embassy in Buenos Aires presented Plumas de Angeles at a lavish reception, Dec. 10, 2008
• Launching of Plumas de Angeles at Cafe Literario Antoni Aliberti, Cafe Montserrat, Buenos Aires
• Radio interviews and readings in Buenos Aires:
  Dec. 14, 2008 Caleidoscopo
  Dec. 20, 2008 Poesia y Algo Mas
  Dec. 20, 2008 Generacion Apierta
  January 19, 2009 reading poetry in Spanish, Caleidoscopo, Argentina
• Press releases: La Autentica Defensa - Dec. 23, 2008, Dec. 24, 2008
• Revista de Cultura N ClarinX Dec. 20, 2008

Autumn 2008

Flavia will be releasing a book this October, "Thus Spoke The Sea", from KCLF-21 Press www.varietycrossing.org

Latest publications

• Interview with Flavia Cosma in AWTTAR www.awttar.com
• Interview with Flavia Cosma in Tawimm, www.tawimm.com
• The poem Beyond published in the August 2008 issue of Quill & Parchment e-zine
• The poems Danza, No se es tigre, Resurreccion and No hables appeared in Giramondo e-anthology published by www.lalectoraimpatiente.com
• The poems Passing Through Fire, To Be Sixteen Again, The Eternal Law, and Under the Cover of Time appeared in Tertulia Magazine
• The poem The End Of The World appeared in Private, International review of photographs and texts, France
• So Many Clocks In The House and When Someone Dies Unexpectedly appeared in Sounding the Seconds - A Canadian Poetry Anthology, 2008

Lithuania and Romania tours, October 2008

Lithuania

• Vilnius University, Kaunas Campus - Poetry in Multicultural Canada
• Vytauti Magni University, Kaunas - The Condition of Writers In Exile
• Participation in International Conference Texts and Contexts: Interactive Perspectives at Vilnius University with the paper About Poetry and the Art of Translating It, October 14-18, 2008
• Launching Thus Spoke The Sea (Lutheran Church of Vilnius University)

Romania

• University of Alba Iulia - a series of conferences about poetry and the contribution of ethnic writers in Canada, October 23-24 2008
• Launching Thus Spoke The Sea (University of Alba Iulia)
• Meetings and round tables with graduate students and representatives of The Writers Union of Romania, Alba Iulia Division.

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.