RE-LEARNING THE ABC

A for Antares / Asteroid / Auriga /...
B for Betelgeuse / Bolide / Bootes /...
C for Capella / Comet / Cygnus /...
...CREATION!!!

-Andrei Dorian Gheorghe-

Gerald England

is a poet and haiku talk coordinator, editor of New Hope International, honorary member of the International Writers and Artists Association,
and laureate of Ted Slade Award for service to poetry.

They are the astropoetical movement of the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy-SARM, officially founded in 1996. They live in Bucharest (Ion Moraru, Boris Marian, Cristina Slovineanu, Adrian Sima, Alexandru Conu, Constantin Dumitrescu-Cunctator, Doina Chilargi, Irina Cristescu, Michaela Al. Orescu, Cristian Miala, Gabriel Ivanescu, Sorin Sulu), Targoviste (Valentin Grigore, Diana Maria Ogescu), Cluj-Napoca (Tina Visarian, Gelu-Claudiu Radu), Mangalia (Iulian Olaru), Bacau (Dan Mitrut, Diana Mitrut), Targu Jiu (Florian Saioc), Sighetul Marmatiei (Sorin Hotea) and Roman (Lucian Boboc).

Steve Sneyd is a poet and historian of science fiction and speculative poetry, laureate of Peterson Trophy and five times nominated for the Rhysling Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, director of Hilltop Press and editor of the Data Dump newsletter.

Arlene Carol Brill is a lover of the sky and of the haiku, who lives in the south of Troy and has published haiku series in a few international projects.

Ovidiu Vaduvescu is an astronomer who was born in the eastern hemisphere and emigrated in the western hemisphere, so now he is both a member of the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy-SARM and of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada,
but with a temporary job in... a South-African university.

John Francis Haines is a science fiction poet, leader of Eight Hand Gang (British network of science fiction poets) and editor of the Handshake newsletter.

Jos Nijland is a member of the Dutch Meteor Society and of the International Meteor Organization.

Juan Martin Semegone is a radioastronomer, member of La Asociation Argentina "Amigos dela Astronomia" and of the International Meteor Organization.

Danut Ionescu was born in the northern hemisphere and emigrated in the southern hemisphere, so now he is both a member of the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy-SARM and of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand.

Paul Roggemans is a sky lover who led the Belgian meteor observers and served as general secretary of the
International Meteor Organization (between 1988 and 1996).

Larry Jaffe is a poet and activist, international readings coordinator of the Dialogue among Civilizations through Poetry program and leader of the
Poets for Human Rights project.

Nagatoshi Nogami is a member of the Oriental Astronomical Association and publicist of articles on Asian old traditions about the Cosmos.

Emily Gaskin is a poet, writer, web designer and editor of the web magazine Astropoetica.com.

Jeremie Vaubaillon is an astronomer at Paris Observatory and a meteor shower predictor cooperating with North American institutions:
University of Western Ontario, Spitzer Space Center, California Institute of Technology, and NASA.

Deborah P. Kolodji is the president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, editor of Dwarf Stars annual anthology, co-founder and editor of
Amaze: the Cinquain Journal, and also a poet and haiku author.

Zigmund Tauberg is a teacher of mathematics and astronomy, and co-leader of the Romanian-Jewish literary showroom in Bucharest.

Arnold Leinweber (1920-2006) was a world recordman: he began to study astronomy and to write astropoetry when he was 84 years old.
Two years later (2006, February) he started to the stars and left us his literary legacy.

Calin Niculae is a computer artist, photographer and amateur astronomer.

Andrei Dorian Gheorghe created in 1983 the Spaceman Sazartinus cosmopoetical character, and founded in 1996 the astropoetical movement of SARM.

Dominic Diamant (Petre Vlad on his real name), a former political prisoner under a totalitarian regime, has tried to make the world better by writing poetry, prose, haiku, essays and letters in his "Dejhagascar" garden (also a fabulous spiritual realm, this time the meeting point of the 120 astro-haiku come from all continents), and by sending them, under various pseudonyms, to cultural-literary magazines.