My mother with the open arms greeting me when I visited her my mother with the tender words when I phoned her that I couldn’t come my

  The 5th Mihai Eminescu International Poetry Festival in Craiova, Romania 17-20 September 2017 Ion Deaconescu presenting the Mihai Eninescu Poetry Prize to Dmitro Tchystiak, poet from Ukraina

XX Daybreak. The branch leans its thin profile to the windows, the body, of your eyes. Birds, eyelids The pupil slightly turns toward the sketched light. Dawn, breaks

Presentation of the poetry book of Rose Ausländer, organized by the Embassy of Austria and the  Goethe-Institut at the Embassy of Austria 6th November 2017 in Den Hague,

THE EYES ARE THE GATES The eyes are the gates of the mind; it is better to close them, now, to be careful,] now that the day advances

REINCARNATION If I do, return me back IF I do, return me back . . . shall I come back through the same gate shall I see the

Slowly branch by branch breaking out of the vapour the green of the pines *** A colourful bridge between heaven and earth a rainbow *** Dancing on water

The launching with recital of the poetry book  “Nella corrente del tempo – L’Effimero fiore del tempo”, published by the well-known Italian publishing house Raffaelli, fascinated in Rome,

A THOUGHT Between his eyes and her tears is always that suitcase, and the distance from so many trips to insight to the fire of poetry in a

TANGLE To deceive oneself to let you believe this tangled world would be in order I hear starving children weep I see soldiers dying I feel how the