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Five or Six Islands ( 오륙도) in Busan, South Korea. Photo - Irina Moga I am thrilled to see my poem "Five or Six Islands" translated into Korean and made into a short poetry video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5mLKC9IaCk This poem is the opening poem in my newest book, "Quantum" and the fact that I placed it there reflects its importance to me. The poem has been inspired my travels in South Korea, by the Korean culture, and written as a direct response to Hwang Byungki's ma

I am pleased to have the poem "Five or Six Islands" included in the summer issue of California Quarterly.

I am delighted to see some of my poems translated into Spanish and included in the latest issue of the gorgeous Spanish literary...

My poem "Strands" was published in the June post of "Fiddles and Scribbles: Strands by Irina Moga Let us speak of memory — its web of layers — fragmented music, invented strands of colors blown by winds just like one snuffs out the last candle into complete obscurity. Let us speak of what is never lost, never regained, the uneven paradise of our being, fragile and frivolous like a luminous winter in which snowflakes dance and then melt away as they reach the ground. Who are

Read my two poems inspired by a quote from Marcus Aurelius in Issue 13, May 2025 of "Paddler Press." https://paddlerpress.ca/issues-trip-...

I have a flash fiction piece coming in issue 4.1 of the wonderful HOTCH POTCH literature & ART. My story is titled "Pape Avenue" and is a...

I am glad to have my poem "Coffee" featured in an avant-prèmiere of Issue 002 of the literary magazine " Phylum Press ". I am grateful to...

I am grateful to the Ontario Arts Council for the grant awarded to support the creation of a poetry book in French. Poetry, I would...

Have you ever wondered why the October morning light is different from what we experience at other times during the year? I do not have...

I had a great time at this year's Eden Mills Writers' Festival thanks to the complimentary ticket I won as a runner-up in the "Read at...

The poems in this collection share a "truant disposition" (in the words of W. Shakespeare).

On November 12, 2023, I will be reading some of my latest poems in English and French as part of the National Public Readings (NPR) in...

You can read about my heart to heart with the Japanese poet Takuboku Ishikawa (1866-1912) in "The Starlight Scifaku Review" :...

How often do we get the opportunity to visit an art and poetry exhibition? My guess is - not that often. Just like the Halley Comet,...

Ah, quelle joie! On vient de m'accorder le prix littéraire de Dina Sahyouni pour mon livre "variations sans palais" (Éditions...

International literary prize "Dina Sahyouni"

Exciting news.... https://twitter.com/pictopoems/status/1488655404326342664 I found out that my poem "In Corfu" published in The Flying...

I'm looking forward to seeing the anthology "Éphéméride - feuilles détachées" in print in February. It's a substantive collection that...

The Mandelbrot Set is a representation of the fractal equation. (A fern's leaf is a good example of a fractal.) I've always been...

I am glad to share one of my latest series of mini-poems, published in the French literary Magazine PRO/P(ROSE) MAGAZINE. I love the...