BIO
IRMA KURTI is an Albanian poet, writer, lyricist, journalist, and translator and has been writing since she was a child. She is a naturalized Italian and lives in Bergamo, Italy. All her books are dedicated to the memory of her beloved parents, Hasan Kurti and Sherife Mezini, who have supported and encouraged every step of her literary path.
Kurti has won numerous literary prizes and awards in Albania, Italy, Switzerland, USA, Philippines, Lebanon and China. She was awarded the Universum Donna International Prize IX Edition 2013 for Literature and received a lifetime nomination as an Ambassador of Peace by the University of Peace, Italian Switzerland. In 2020, she became the honorary president of WikiPoesia, the encyclopedia of poetry. She received the Grazia Deledda medal and diploma of merit from the National Committee of WikiPoesia on the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Italian poet.
In 2023 she was awarded a Career Award from the Universum Academy Switzerland. She also won the prestigious 2023 Naji Naaman’s literary prize for complete work.
Irma Kurti is a member of the jury for several literary competitions in Italy. She is also a translator for the Ithaca Foundation in Spain.
Irma Kurti has published more than 100 works, including books of poetry, fiction and translations. Her books have been translated and published in 19 countries.
I’M NOT A WOMAN…
Ropes of rain create small streams
on the glass. I watch, leaning against
it. I try in vain to discern a sign that
will bring me closer to you, a trace
or a word. I’m not a woman; I’m not
a child.
Your message isn’t enough for me
anymore, nor are the flowers that
you often send me. Even your laugh,
which flies up into the air like a white
petal, isn’t enough; today, I feel like
a leaf mercilessly beaten by the rains.
A leaf resting in the wind’s arms
that slips to the ground or to the
grass, tired from the days of waiting,
failing to find its branch in the tree.
I am not a woman; I am not a child.
A GRAY SKY ON MY EYELASHES
A gray sky weighs on my eyelashes;
the long, monotonous road expands;
minutes seem hours and hours, days.
At the end of it, there is no one who
waits for me with open arms, who
pronounces my name in tones of
love. I feel anonymous and fragile
as the day wraps itself in darkness.
But now I see a star that incites me
to take it in my hands and hold it in
my fingers like an ephemeral firefly.
A gray sky weighs on my eyelashes.
The thought of you is enough for me,
and it lights me up just like that star;
the sky turns blue. Everything takes
on light; I lose track of space and
time; I can no longer tell where
your body ends and my spirit begins.
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