- Published: Monday, November 30 -0001 00:00
-essay by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe-
The Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy (SARM), as both a member of the International Meteor Organization and Astronomers Without Borders, salutes the new Perseid poems published in the Astropoetry Blog.
Regarding meteor poetry, it is important to remember that the masterpiece of Romanian poetry, Luceafarul - The Evening Star, written by Mihai Eminescu in 1883 and included in Guinness Book as the longest love poem of the world, can be considered also a meteor poem - please see an essay about it by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe and Alastair McBeath (first published by the International Meteor Organization) at: http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/Astrohumanism_6/
and even one of the main creators of meteor astronomy, the Englishman William Frederick Denning (1848-1931) wrote meteor verses, as you can see at: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1990JRASC..84..383B
Between 1996 and 2002, SARM published many meteor poems in its printed astropoetry anthologies in the English language (made especially for the International Meteor Conferences of the International Meteor Organization), some of them being republished on the web in The Best Of SARM (2005) at http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/tbos/
In 1997, Andrei Dorian Gheorghe founded the annual Astropoetry Show of the International Meteor Conferences, mainly based on meteor poetry - you can see a short synthesis of them at http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/top12astropoetryshowimc/
and http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/astropoetrytoiya/memories.html
In 2002, Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (cultural counsellor of SARM), Valentin Grigore (President of SARM) and Alastair McBeath (U.K., Vice-President of the International Meteor Organization), with the support of Andrei Dorian Gheorghe’s parents (Costica Gheorghe and Steliana Gheorghe) launched Meteor Contemporary Poetry Project in the electronic archive of the International Meteor Organization, the first regular astropoetry project patronized by a world astronomical organization, with contributors from around 30 countries.
Here are the addresses of its issues and supplements:
-Leonid 2002 Poetry - prologue, December 2002
-MCPP (1), June 2003
-MCPP (2), December 2003
-MCPP (3), June 2004
-The Song of the IMC - a September 2004 supplement by Jeremie Vaubaillon
-MCPP (4), December 2004
-MCPP (5), June 2005
-MCPP (6), December 2005
-MCPP (7), June 2006
-MCPP (8), December 2006
-MCPP (9), June 2007
-MCPP (10), December 2007
The death of Costica Gheorghe in 2007 made that in 2008 this project had only one issue.
And in 2009, the death of Steliana Gheorghe provoked a different approach to the project.
SARM also made other meteor poetry web pages, as follows:
-Death of Meteors (by Cristina Tinta-Vass)
-A story with the Great Chariot
-Meteor Murphology
-Pic du Midi, You Made Us Happy -Astropoetic Drama (by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)
-Comet Halley and Sons (by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)
-Meteor Poetry Manifesto (by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)
-The Dragon Astrotrilogy (by Dan Mitrut)
-Messier Meteors (by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)
-World Astrotipuritura Championship
-Leonids 2001 in Romania
-SARM’s Perseid Event: Photo-Memories
-SARM’s Intercontinental Astro-Ecologic Verse Tournament
-Classics of SARM’s Cosmopoetry Festival
-Another Perseus
-Statues for Astronomers
-The First Astrofolk Songs of Dan Mitrut
-Meteor and Meteora
-The Ballad of a Meteor Fallen in Love (by Dan Mitrut)
Hoping that the experience of SARM and IMO in this field is useful, we wish all of you to enrich meteor poetry, the Persid shower being always the greatest opportunity!
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