FOUNDERS

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As the Creator organizes the Universe
through pillars of astral greatness,
the people also organize their works
through pillars of human brightness.
So we wish all of you
CLEAR SKIES! And SUCCESS!

-Andrei Dorian Gheorghe and Valentin Grigore-




Andrei Dorian Gheorghe and Valentin Grigore,
founders of SARM’s Cosmopoetry Festival,
at its first edition, Arts Showroom - Targoviste Mayoralty, 1996
Photo by Victor Bortas


The 7 editions (1993-1999) of SARM’s Perseid Camp
on the Voievodes Hill (near Targoviste), Dambovita County,
were better and richer one after the other in the perspective
of the total solar eclipse of 1999,
and obviously culminated with the last of them.

The same about the first 4 editions of its Cosmopoetry Festival (1996-1999),
hosted by the town of Targoviste (former Capital of the Romanian Land):
this was animated by a growing enthusiasm
(including not only Romanian contemporary astropoems
and other related forms of expression ,
but also cosmic poems from all over the world and from all times),
and touched the maximum during its 1999 international edition
in the English language.

After that,
SARM’s Cosmopoetry Festival knew a spectacular development
for a few years (2000-2003),
being expanded through galas in more different places
(the most important of them at
“Admiral Vasile Urseanu” Bucharest Municipal Observatory).










Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (Director of SARM’s Cosmopoetry Festival) at:
1. An astropoetry reading (the prologue of the Cosmopoetry Festival)
during the national astronomical colloquium of
SARM’s Perseid 1995 Event, Arts Showroom - Targoviste Mayoralty
2. The National Cosmopoetry Festival,
Arts Showroom - Targoviste Mayoralty, 1996
3. The International Cosmopoetry Festival,
Culture House, Targoviste, 1999
4. An astropoetry reading on the Voievodes Hill,
SARM’s EuRoEclipse Perseids Event 1999
5. A gala of SARM’s Cosmopoetry Festival,
“Admiral Vasile Urseanu” Bucharest Municipal Observatory (Floor 1), 2002
6. A gala of SARM’s Cosmopoetry Festival,
Perseid Camp, Corbasca. 2002
7. A gala of SARM’s Cosmopoetry Festival,
“Admiral Vasile Urseanu” Bucharest Municipal Observatory (Floor 2), 2004
8. A Gala of SARM’s Cosmopoetry Festival,
Perseid Camp, Crasna-Covasna, 2005






Valentin Grigore (President of SARM) teaching astronomy at SARM’s Perseid Event:
1. Voievodes Hill, 1993
2. Voievodes Hill (during EuRoEclipse Perseids), 1999
3. Corbasca - Bacau, 2002
4. Sancrai - Covasna, 2007


Today,
even if it is ignored by the cultural world in its own country,
this annual (unique in the world) Cosmopoetry Festival
still exists
(not only though irregular readings and galas,
but also through an electronic monthly newsletter since 2006
on the Romanian national astronomical mailing list
entitled just… “SARM”)
and continues to produce works highly appreciated
in international elite mediums
of literature, science fiction, astronomy and haiku.

In the memory of those enthusiastic times,
we have chosen a few “classics” of the SARM astropoetry movement,
who presented unforgettable moments
on the stage of the Cosmopoetry Festival,
the main criteria being:
brightness, longevity, continuity,
and capacities to respond to new challenges.

At the same time,
their astropoems are adorned by photographs of authors
who have also given important impulses to this event.



A nocturnal-ecological gala of SARM’s Cosmopoetry Festival,
Perseids 2007 Camp, Sancrai, Covasna
Photo: Mihai Curtasu


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