Author

Ioana Cosma

4 works

Ioana Cosma is a writer from Romania who has written five volumes of poetry published with Silver Bow in Canada, New Meridian Arts in The United States and The European Institute Press in Romania. Her novels – The Ones from Afar and Verse – have been published in Romania and her play was part of the JCTC festival in New Jersey. She teaches English at the University of Pitesti. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto.

Play Poetry

Poetry

You were the last high

I can tell a lot about the lows
the 'Lowlands are home to me now'
I don't feel blue and I don't feel desperate

Poetry

ICE outta Minnesota, love

ICE outta Minnesota, love,
now they might allow dreams in the ghetto,
they might stop shooting niggas on the run,

Poetry

Me and My Rock’n’Roll Dad

Me and my rock'n'roll dad
would go walking on streets of secrecy,
in broad daylight, under a Communist sun,

Play

Take It or Believe It

A pre-electoral TV show in contemporary Romania. Two guests are present: Mr Orchid, a nouveau-riche who is ostentatiously opulent and in bad taste, and Mr Poppy, his brother-in-law who is...