Or Was It Nine Perhaps we had only seven nights I don’t know I didn’t count them how would I have been able to Perhaps no more than

THE STANDSTILL OF SILENCE Silently like a snowflake Christmas came At the junction of the night it met the standstill of silence Although tired of traveling breastfed the

The International Poetry Award Don Luigi Di Liegro was presented the 1st December 2017 at the monumental Capitol in Rome The jury of the International Poetry Award Don

  Joaquín Sorolla And if you come back to me one evening of sea and seagulls, I will try to kiss the traces of your eyes, and if

Presentation at the Book Fair in Antwerp of “Dewdrops”, 100 haiku of Germain Droogenbroodt, published in 5 languages, including Japanese calligraphy by Taeko Eumura  and illustrations by the famous Indian

  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