Poet of the Month

January: Rebecca Lowe (Wales).
February: Jim Gronvold (USA). 
March: Carolyn Mary Kleefeld (USA).
April: Tozan Alkan (Turkey).
May: Byron Beynon (Wales).
June: Michelle Chung (USA). 
July: Jim Gwyn (USA).
August: Jonathan Taylor (England).
September: Beata Poźniak (USA).
October: Maria Taylor (England).
November: Stanley H. Barkan (USA).
December: John Dotson (USA).

January: Maria Mastrioti (Greece).

February: Gayl Teller (USA).
March: Mike Jenkins (Wales).
April: Cassian Maria Spiridon (Romania).
May: Simon Fletcher (England)
June: Sultan Catto (USA)
July: Vojislav Deric (Australia)
August: K. S. Moore (Ireland)
September: Kristine Doll (USA)
October: Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan (USA)
November: Christopher Norris (Wales)
December: Maria Mazziotti Gillan (USA)

2023: Poets featured as Poet of the Month 

January: Samuel Ezra (Wales)
February: Tôpher Mills (Wales)
March: Rob Cullen (Wales)
April: Mandira Ghosh (India)
May: John Greening (England)
June: Rosy Wood-Bevan (Wales)
July: David Hughes (Wales)

2025: Poets featured as Poet of the Month 
January: Annest Gwilym (Wales)
February: Sam Smith (Wales)
March: Dave Lewis (Wales)
April: Scott Elder (France)

 

 MAY POET OF THE MONTH: 
ANGELA KOSTA (ITALY)

Angela Kosta was born in Elbasan (Albania) and has lived in Italy since 1995. She is Executive Director by the magazine MIRIADE (Italy), translator, essayist, journalist, literary critic, publisher and promoter. She has published 16 books: novels, poems and fairy tales in Albanian, Italian, Turkey and English.

 

The proceeds of his two books in Italy were donated to the non-profit association for research on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and to the Association Daniele Chianelli for scientific research on Leukemia, Tumors and Lymphomas in children and adults. His poetic volume translated by scholar and writer Hasan Nashid, approved by the Bangladeshi Ministry of Culture, will soon be published in Bengali.

 

Her publications and translations have been published in various literary magazines and newspapers in several continental and intercontinental countries.

 

Angela Kosta translates and writes articles and interviews for the newspaper "Calabria Live", Saturno magazine, Alessandria Today Magazine, the international magazine "Orfeu:", the newspaper "Nacional", Gazeta Destinacioni, Perqasje Italo - Shqiptare, the magazine "Atunis", she collaborates with the magazines: "International Literature Language Journal (Michigan), Wordsmith International Editorial (Florida), Raven Cage (Germany), Kavya Kishor International (Bangladesh), Sindh Courier (Pakistan), Güncel Sanat (Turkey), etc.

 

She is co-host in several anthologies in: USA, England, India, Bangladesh, Albania, Russia, Germany, Kosovo, etc. 

 

Angela Kosta has translated 160 authors into bilingual: Italian - Albanian and vice versa and has promoted over 580 poets in various national and international literary magazines as well as translating the books of poems by 3 Albanian and Kosovar authors. She has also translated the poems of important italian classics, nobelists and many other famous authors. 

 

Angela Kosta is Vice President of the South Korea Writers' Association, Vice President of the Organization Humanist World (Michigan), Ambassador for Culture and Peace in varius Organization no - profit in: Bangladesh, Poland, Morocco, Canada, Algeria, Egypt, Mexico, Romania, India, etc. 

 

She is also a member of the Writers' League (LSHASH) and BSHBSH - Italy, Academy od Arte and Science America (AAA), Greece, Poland, Hungary, Mexico, Romania, Croatia, India. 

 

In Italy many important newspapers and magazines have written various articles about Angela Kosta: La Nazione, Il Messaggero, Il Corriere dell'Umbria, Revista Confidenze, Il Quotidiano d'Italia, Umbria 7, News Diretta, Umbria 24, Vivo Umbria, etc...

Prominent international critics have praised her writing: Francesca Gallello, (writer, screenwriter, journalist, director of Saturno magazine, Italy), Mustafa Gökçek (journalist and literary critic, Turkey), El Majjad (journalist, literary critic, Iraq), Pier Carlo Lava (publisher), Rasim Maslic (journalist, painter, writer, Croatia), Fabrizio Ciocchetti (writer, journalist, Italy), Elena Caruso (journalist, literary critic), Federica Mastroforti (journalist), Adriano Bottaccioli (writer, Director of Art), Paolo Ippoliti (journalist), Enzo Beretta (journalist), Simone Strati Editore, Nasir Aijaz journalist, poet, scholar, publisher, (Pakistan), Dibran Fylli, Academic, Director, poet, editor-in-chief, Ndue Dragusha, poet, editor, essayist, Rifat Ismaili, writer, literary critic, essayist, etc... 

 

Angela Kosta has been translated and published in 33 foreign languages and foreign countries. In 2024 alone, it has been published in 108 national and international newspapers and magazines, with: poems, articles, interviews, books, reviews, etc. She has received numerous awards from various magazines and newspapers. 

 

In 2023, the magazine OBELISK directed by Roland Lushi declared her, among others, the best translator with translations of the Nobelist poet Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci, as well as the Moroccan newspaper Akhbar7 proclaimed her the Celbrity Woman for 2023. 

 

Angela Kosta has been featured as the Person of the Month on the covers of magazines: Elitè Magazine (Liban), International Literature Language Journal, (Michigan), Saturno Magazine (Italy), Wordsmith International Editorial (Florida), Literary Magazine (Barcelona) and Odyssey Global International (Bangladesh)

 

Angela Kosta has received the Certification of Doctor Honoris Causa from various universities including: Colombia, Moldova, Yemen, Algeria, Romania, Mexico, India and recently also from the University of Language and Literature in Morocco by Dean Muhammad Blik.

RARE FLOWER...

 

Lost

In vain I searched for a flower

That it had your sweet scent

I came back empty-handed

And while I've seen you sleep

Spellbound

I understood that nothing and no one

Not even a rare flower

It would compare to your beauty

To your irresistible freshness

(c) 2025 Angela Kosta

LYING SWAN

Waves of Thoughts
In Search of Persuasion
Awkward by taciturn memories
Premise repeated every morning
Where from afar with deception
Your hand reached mine
While my happy heart smiled
Believing in the sweet breeze of love
In that magical infinity of the sea 
Today in a storm equal to life
As well as my lacerated soul
Swan lying on the rocks
Where the roar of the waves throws it further
Elsewhere in a troubled world,
Haunted by a past that no longer exists
Maybe it never existed
Preterite in the trap of your eyes
Of your lips that emitted
Endless Words
Cheating candid, true feelings
Knowing the harm you were doing
Suppressing our oath
Everlasting Covenant
Today a spectre in oblivion

(c) 2025 Angela Kosta


ASH SMILE
(In Remembrance of the Holocaust)

Dull eyes in icy tears
Cold hands, foretold end on the eyelids
A desperate cry launched by brutality
Translated into "Death" on racial laws
Approved, confirmed with so much devotion
By those who had the power in their hands
To make the smile of human dignity disappear
Turning and stopping in the long queues
Children, women, men of all ages
Unnamed Numbers
Branded mercilessly.
God Himself did not put an end to this act
Allowed that "Why" to go unanswered
While the world applauded the whole scenery
Breathing even for those who were Forbidden to him
Shielding the teeth for those who wanted to
That the wheel of destiny would not get stuck.
It didn't take much for time to stand still
Marked today as a great day of Remembrance
Beyond those traveled in vain
Persecution suspended over those who survived
But he can't forget.
Today, as well as yesterday
The Drama Continues
In other measures without shame
Senseless wars and endless just as
Human horror appears at the bottom of the sea
And the world continues to applaud
Without opposition.

(c) 2025 Angela Kosta

MAGIC ON THIS SUMMER NIGHT 

Hands clasped on this hot summer night 
Kissing madly 
Bathing in the brisk rain, serene
Witness this wonderful love.
Image of this sky full of stars 
Singing our song from happiness 
On our moist eyes
Transporting us to another planet of madness.
Pervaded by the desire to stay
Under this endless summer night magic 
The only one to make us similar, in heart, in mind, 
No matter the blazing fire 
That burns impetuously
Our soul unable to fade
As intense as our unrepeatable feelings.

(c) 2025 Angela Kosta

THE LIGHT OF SURVIVAL 

 

The Light of Hope shines on the beloved
land furrowed by wounded edges where
the poverty lives naked.
There are undressed ladies

with wide open eyes
on the sidewalks full of corpses
with anxiety is fed inside the garbage
with rotting food like stale bread crumbs as if they are for stray dogs.

But the Light of Hope triumphs it travels around the world on the paths where poor and sick people pass.

It's passes there like a torchlight procession to tell the beloved Earth to stops suffering.

It fed the poor in abundance

with the light of hope.

The oceanic light emerges and fills the cracks in the souls of the sick,

wherever are there. 
By embracing the light,

everyone recovers from the evils of the century:
Diseases and Poverty!

(c) 2025 Angela Kosta

EMOTION...

In the pages of life I'll find you
lightly touching you
Whispering a name that won't answer me
On a canvas of a thousand colors
Eyelids hanging in the dark
Conspicuous by the same blind light...
I dust you from the silent memories
pulled out of the half-closed drawers of time.
I listen to you on a staff
Music from our favorite song.
I hear your smile in your voice
Remained the same as yesterday
Surviving any storm
A storm dragged by deep suffering
On heated days without sun
Searching for the moon hidden in the clouds.
Nevertheless...
Today I feel enriched
of so many emotions that have flourished
From a simple sigh...
I find you...
There you are!!!

(c) 2025 Angela Kosta