- Published: Wednesday, October 17 2018 19:11
Stars dance in the sky
And people dance on Earth
Imitating
The dance of the falling stars.
--Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
When we say monuments of astropoetry we think especially of three individual ones: --Phenomena, by Aratus (3rd century BC); --Paradiso from the Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri (14th century); --Rudimenta Cosmographica, by Johannes Honterus (16th century). We also think of the monumental operas of Camille Flammarion (in the French space language) and Richard Hinckley Allen (in the Anglo-American world), who adorned their universal descriptions with astronomical verses by numerous poets, and created wonderful models for humanity. At the end of 2010, the Romanian Society for Meteors and astronomy (SARM) tried to make a collective monument of astropoetry around Meteor Contemporary Poetry Project (initiated and coordinated by SARM for the International Meteor Organization) by re-publishing (as a collection) articles which preceded it or were connected to it, along with a description of it. Thus, you can find about selections of old and contemporary Romanian meteor verses or world meteor verses at the end of the 2nd millennium, an astropoetry show at a NASA workshop in April 2000, a festival of international meteor poetry in September 2000, and astropoetic dramas played in Romania between 1996 and 2002, by visiting: More on Meteor Contemporary Poetry Project http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/moreonmccp/
Now the Astropoetry Blog of the Astronomers without Borders also promises to become a major collective monument of astropoetry through its educational and multiple role: --to remember old astronomical poetry; --to promote original astropoetry; --to inform about astropoetry initiatives from all over the world. So at the beginning of 2011` we have the following wish: Long Live Astropoetry Blog!
-- Andrei Dorian Gheorghe and Valentin Grigore
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