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The First Ten Editions of the Cosmopoetry Festival



In the light of the Cosmic Tree, Life comes from the Heavens. -Valentin Grigore-		Moment of the moments- trying to become a being of light -Andrei Dorian Gheorghe-



Words? Let them find orbits. I liberated them from gravity. -Dan Mitrut-		Are we watched by a high eye? Or by a heart in the sky? -Andrei Dorian Gheorghe-

		In the Eternal Youth Land (or at the Cosmopoetry Festival of SARM) Literary talks in the astral language luminously vibrating in any dimension, amazing young stars graciously dancing, academic pulsars trying to blind the audience through clever sophisms, nice galaxies performing heavenly princesses, unexpected fireballs provoking shocks... colossal tournaments, cosmo-odysseys, astro-madrigals, great awards... all in spite of a poor, capricious and miserable time... so incredibly my life's sad party seemed to catch an eternal halo. -Dominic Diamant-

The Cosmopoetry Festival was founded in 1996 by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe, Valentin Grigore and the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy-SARM to be a medium for readings of poetry about the Cosmos and especially astronomical poetry (astropoetry) from all over the world and all times, adorned by astrofolk and electronic music, astrodramas, and showrooms of astronomical photographs and arts. The spirit of this festival has expanded into the world through SARM's other initiatives out of Romania, including presentations of English anthologies of Romanian and international astropoetry (since 1996), and shows and exhibitions of astro-photo-art-poetry for the International Meteor Organization Conferences (since 1997) and many other international astronomical and cultural events. Here is the chronology of this festival:

-1^st Edition, 1996: Mayoralty Art Showroom-Targoviste and Piatra Arsa-Mountain Bucegi, during the "Perseids" event. -2^ndEdition, 1997: Youth House-Targoviste, during the "Perseids" event. Foreign participants from Sweden and U.K. -3^rd Edition, 1998: Youth House-Targoviste, during the "Perseids" event. Foreign participants from U.S.A. and Holland. -4^th Edition, 1999: Culture House-Targoviste and Voievodes Hill, during the "EuRoEclipse Perseids" event. A special edition in the English language, with foreign participants from U.S.A., Canada, U.K., France, Holland and South Africa. -5^th Edition, 2000: "Admiral Vasile Urseanu" Municipal Observatory-Bucharest, Military Circle-Barlad, "Ferdinand I" College-Bacau, Cultural Centre-Pucioasa. Foreign participants from U.S.A. and the Moldavian Republic. -6^th Edition, 2001: "Admiral Vasile Urseanu" Municipal Observatory-Bucharest (including the 1st astropoetry gala of the 3rd millenium, a joint show of SARM and Science Fiction Poetry Association, U.S.A.), Economic College-Targoviste, "Perseids" Camp-Mayoralty of Corbasca, Vanatorul Complex-Mountain Bucegi (a 8 hour astro-show of poetry, image, drama and music!). -7^th Edition, 2002: "Admiral Vasile Urseanu" Municipal Observatory-Bucharest, Culture House-Targoviste, "Ferdinand I" College-Bacau, Youth House-Targoviste, "Perseids" Camp-Corbasca, Vanatorul Complex-Mountain Bucegi and... some Romanian peaks. Including readings for Dialogue Through Poetry 2002 and Poetry on the Peaks, programs of the United Nations Society of Writers. -8^th Edition, 2003: "Admiral Vasile Urseanu" Municipal Observatory-Bucharest, "Ferdinand I" College-Bacau, Fortress Hill-Cluj, Tower Chindia-Targoviste, "Perseids" Camp-Corbasca. Including readings for Dialogue Through Poetry 2003, a program of the United Nations Society of Writers. -9^th Edition, 2004: "Admiral Vasile Urseanu" Municipal Observatory-Bucharest, Municipal Theatre-Targoviste, "Perseids Camp"-Darmanesti (including a Romanian-Belgian-Dutch-German evening of Perseid poetry with some members of the International Meteor Organization). -10^th Edition, 2005: "Perseids" Camp-Crasna and "Admiral Vasile Urseanu" Municipal Observatory-Bucharest.



bright state of grace people and heavenly bodies cosmopoetry		queen of sciences arm in arm with queen of arts astropoetry -Andrei Dorian Gheorghe-

There is only one true way: the sky together with the people on Earth. -Valentin Grigore-

		... and it is left to us to make just a little bit of light. -Calin Niculae-


Images from the two galas of SARM's Cosmopoetry Festival 2001 at "Admiral Vasile Urseanu" Municipal Observatory in Bucharest: -The first astropoetry gala of the 3rd millenium - a joint show of SARM and Science Fiction Poetry Association (U.S.A.) - 2001, January 27th; -The joint astropoetry gala of SARM and Steve Sneyd's Hilltop Press (U.K.), 2001, April 28th.