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✨Poet who writes & teaches in English, Romanian, Italian, Spanish and French
✨Founder of The Polyglot
✨Editorial director of the Griffin Poetry Prize
✨PhD in Arts-based Language Education

Thank you for all the birthday wishes!!! ❤️ I’m a little emotional because this photo was taken at the exact moment I “t...
04/06/2026

Thank you for all the birthday wishes!!! ❤️ I’m a little emotional because this photo was taken at the exact moment I “turned” 36, surrounded by poets, including one of my best friends, Medgine Mathurin, and a few of my all-time favourite writers, whose generosity and kindness know no bounds: Aracelis Girmay, Canisia Lubrin, Ishion Hutchinson, and Kevin Young, who all gathered for the readings. What a gift to begin this year in the company of their words ❤️

Descântec For My Split Tongue is a poetry bestseller in my hometown of Edmonton!!! ❤️ City of POETS!!Thank you to everyo...
28/05/2026

Descântec For My Split Tongue is a poetry bestseller in my hometown of Edmonton!!! ❤️ City of POETS!!

Thank you to everyone who pre-ordered, shared the book, sent messages, and carried these poems into the world before I even had the chance to hold the book myself. Fiecare comandă, fiecare mesaj, fiecare mână care a atins cartea înaintea mea a însemnat enorm.

And a very special thank you to Audreys Books for supporting this book so beautifully and for hosting my Edmonton launch on June 20 at 2pm. Abia aștept să sărbătorim împreună. 🤍

ships the book to everywhere in the world!!! Grateful 🙏

There is something so emotional about knowing my book is already out in the world, being held by people I love, before i...
25/05/2026

There is something so emotional about knowing my book is already out in the world, being held by people I love, before it has even reached my own hands. ❤️

Here is my book in Sarah’s kitchen in Whitehorse, on Bert’s tablecloth in Edmonton, in Adela’s garden in Vermont. Lauren, Dara, Andra, Maria… I keep thinking about your hands holding this book 🥰

Thank you, din suflet, to everyone who pre-ordered this little multilingual dream. You can order it from my publisher or anywhere you buy your books! 🌟

This feels like such a beautiful full-circle moment because Canisia Lubrin (.lubrin) was the first editor to accept one ...
21/05/2026

This feels like such a beautiful full-circle moment because Canisia Lubrin (.lubrin) was the first editor to accept one of my poems for publication in a paid literary journal.

That poem eventually became the title poem of this collection, Descântec For My Split Tongue, first published in Humber Literary Review () in 2019.

So receiving this beautiful blurb from her means the world to me. Thank you, Canisia. Not just for this, but for always encouraging me to trust my voice, my method, the real heat in the marrow of my pen. ❤️

TORONTO! See you in ten days to officially launch this baby!

📅 Sunday, May 31st, 2026
🕕 6:00 PM
📍 Another Story Bookshop (315 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto)
🔗 Please RSVP: palimpsestmay31.ca

Huge thanks to , , and for making this triple launch happen, alongside the brilliant (Half-Earth) and André Narbonne (Those Are Pearls).

Un incontro aperto a chiunque abbia voglia di rallentare, creare e stare insieme attraverso le parole in different langu...
18/05/2026

Un incontro aperto a chiunque abbia voglia di rallentare, creare e stare insieme attraverso le parole in different languages.

📍 BlueMind, Via Lungomare Boeo 18
📅 Martedì 19 maggio
⏰ 18:00 – 19:30

Insieme esploreremo l’arte del “descântec” (una parola rumena tra incantesimo, preghiera e rituale) e scriveremo il nostro personale descântec per la guarigione e la protezione.

Ti aspettano gioco, prompt creativi e uno spazio accogliente e ispirante per connetterci attraverso le lingue.

Non serve avere esperienza con la scrittura: basta curiosità, apertura e voglia di dedicarsi un momento lento, creativo e pieno di cura.

✨ Laboratorio gratuito
✨ Registrazione nel link in bio.
✨ Aperto a tutte le età, esperienze e lingue!

Adriana Oniță (adrianaonita.com) è nata in Romania, cresciuta in Canada e adesso vive in Sicilia.

Scrive in inglese, rumeno, spagnolo, francese e italiano, a volte mischiandole.

Le sue poesie multilingue sono state premiate e pubblicate su varie riviste in Canada ed Europa, fra cui , , , e .

È l'autrice di Descântec For My Split Tongue (, 2026), e due libri chapbook di poesia, Misremembered Proverbs (above/ground press, 2023) e Conjugated Light (Glass Buffalo, 2019).

Nel 2016, ha fondato .polyglot.magazine, una rivista e casa editrice multilingue che ha pubblicato le opere di oltre 250 poeti, scrittori, traduttori e artisti in più di 65 lingue.

Adriana insegna, traduce, organizza eventi culturali, e lavora come direttrice editoriale al più grande premio di poesia al mondo, the prize. Recentemente, ha partecipato al podcast “Attraversate: crossing linguistico letterario al femminile” per la Biblioteca delle Donne di Bologna.

Friends, I’m so excited to share that today my first poetry collection, Descântec For My Split Tongue, is officially out...
15/05/2026

Friends, I’m so excited to share that today my first poetry collection, Descântec For My Split Tongue, is officially out with / Anstruther Books!

This book is sixteen years in the making, and I’m incredibly grateful & fericită to finally share it with you all. The collection can be ordered worldwide through Palimpsest Press, your local independent bookstore, or larger retailers.

I’ll be celebrating with a few upcoming spring events, and I would love to see you there:

✨ Online Workshop — May 16 at 12pm MT / 8pm CET
Free workshop; register at the link in bio!

✨ Marsala — May 19 at 6pm CET
Free workshop at .marsala; register at the link in bio!

✨ Toronto — May 31 at 6pm ET
with and André Narbonne

✨ Calgary — June 11 at 7:00pm MT
with Lisa Martin, .yyc, and

✨ Edmonton — June 20 at 2:00pm MT
At (+ more events/workshops coming in Edmonton!)

Even if you can’t make it to any of the events, I would be so grateful if you helped spread the word by reposting , or sending this to anyone who might connect with the book.

Thank you so much for being here and for supporting my work over the years. It truly means the world to me. Mulțumesc din suflet to those who already pre-ordered the book!

And an immense thank you to everyone on the Palimpsest team: Jim, Aimée, Ellie, and Hollay at who have been incredible to work with!!!

Photo by Shawna Lemay
With gratitude,
Adriana

My new favourite word: c'asciddricao (ridere a crepapelle, senza fiato, senza potersi fermare). To laugh your head off t...
12/05/2026

My new favourite word: c'asciddricao (ridere a crepapelle, senza fiato, senza potersi fermare). To laugh your head off til you can't breathe. 😂

I missed teaching!!! Oggi ho avuto la gioia di condividere la mia passione per la poesia e le lingue con delle studentesse delle scienze umane di Marsala, e porto via con me una gratitudine enorme. ❤️

Sono rimasta colpita dal loro coinvolgimento, dalle domande intelligentissime e curiose che hanno fatto, dalla loro apertura e sensibilità.

Abbiamo scritto poesie partendo da due prompt diversi (uno dedicato alla propria lingua e identità, e uno costruito attorno ai biscotti della fortuna) e sono nate poesie davvero bellissime e commoventi.

Una delle cose più speciali per me è stata ascoltare i loro pensieri sulla lingua siciliana e sull’identità marsalese. Da persona che ha scelto di vivere qui, è stato emozionante sentire il rapporto così vivo che hanno con il proprio territorio e con le proprie parole.

Grazie per l’accoglienza incredibile che ho sentito oggi. Grazie a , a , e all'insegnante fantastica di .

Non vedo già l’ora di domani, per il prossimo laboratorio al Liceo Classico 💛

Every poem is for my mother. Every poem is for my child ❤️Happy Mother’s Day to all who mother, to those carrying both e...
10/05/2026

Every poem is for my mother. Every poem is for my child ❤️

Happy Mother’s Day to all who mother, to those carrying both exhaustion and exhilaration in the same body, to those trying to learn or reclaim their mother tongue, against all odds.

Descântec For My Split Tongue is available worldwide and through your favourite indie bookstore.

A special thank you to for first publishing this poem in ❤️

I’m overjoyed that Tara Skurtu’s () words will live on the back cover of my debut collection forever. Here is her full b...
10/05/2026

I’m overjoyed that Tara Skurtu’s () words will live on the back cover of my debut collection forever. Here is her full blurb:

“I should have begun by saying / that I lost my mother tongue.” Dor, strigoi, proverbe, descântece: Adriana Oniță’s multilingual Descântec For My Split Tongue holds up a mirror to the untranslatable, and in that mirror, desire, nostalgia, grief, and love weave a homecoming ritual to rediscover what waits within us to be found. These achingly incantatory poems hit to heal where it hurts. “I write of Holy fire”— This dynamo of a debut drives a stake through the heart of the undead to exorcize limba maternă from the unforgotten depths of dor, unsettling that indefinable ache to get as close as words can to the Holy source, the mother of all tongues: “What cannot be quenched. What cannot be burned.”

Tara means the world to me, and to this collection. Deep gratitude for her eagle eye, her steadfast coaching, and for being the poem-midwife to every line in this collection. ❤️

I can't believe my poetry book is out in five days!!!!! Order it from to anywhere in the world, or from your favourite indie bookstore!

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