recent Poetry publications
Misremembered Proverbs [chapbook], above/ground press (2023)
“Strigoi” and “Lămurire” in The Ex-Puritan (forthcoming, December 2023)
“Iertare” in filling Station, issue 81 (2023)
“Țara arde și baba se piaptănă" and “Pălăvrăgeala“ in periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, 2023
“Ierbar” in Tuesday Poem series (2023)
“Cuminte” in Tint Journal and Tinted Trails Anthology (2023)
“Hărnicie,” “Ie,” “Dor,” “Nădejde” in CBC Books - Shortlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize (2021)
“Landing in Edmonton, December” in The Globe and Mail (2020)
”Descântec for my split tongue” in Humber Literary Review (2020)
“Dream where I curate an exhibit in my childhood home la Jilava” in Glass Buffalo (2019, Canadian Literature Centre Contest Winner)
“Limba maternă,” “Seven Self Portraits,” “Apartment” in In:cite Journal (2019)
Conjugated Light [chapbook], Glass Buffalo Publishing (2019)
interviews & articles
“Things Snowball in Community: Luciana Erregue Sacchi interviews Adriana Onita,” Read Alberta, June 2022
“Am o identitate multiculturală e vivo tra tanti mondi: Daciana Branea interviews Adriana Oniță,” Orizonturi Culturale, Orizzonti culturali italo-romeni
“Every publisher should be multilingual,” WestWord Magazine, 2023
“Edmonton Multilingual Authors,” Edmonton Public Library Blog, 2023
readings & performances
Photos below by Randall Edwards of r edwards photography.
readings
2023 May — Muse Arts HAPPENING Multicultural Festival (Virtual)
2022 Dec — Translation Out West #3, Literary Translators Association of Canada (Edmonton, Canada)
2022 Jan — Dor: A Mode in Translation (International, Virtual)
2021 Feb — Romanian Women Voices in North America (New York City, Virtual)
2020 Oct — Beyond the Food Court: Immersive Reading (Edmonton, Canada, LitFest/PoFest, Virtual)
2020 Oct — Reading and panel at Feria Iberoamericana del Libro en Canadá (Ottawa, Canada, Virtual)
2019 Jul — Poetry at Stephansson House (Red Deer County, Canada)
2019 Apr — LandScape: Art and Poetry (Edmonton, Allard Hall, PoFest)
2019 Apr — Local Books Feature (Edmonton, PoFest, CBC Centre Stage)
2018 Nov — New Mountains: Creative Women Speak Out (Edmonton, Audrey’s Books)
2017 Jan — Governor General’s Night of Poetry in Celebration of Derek Walcott (Castries, Saint Lucia)
workshops & events
2023 June — Adult and children workshops with Edmonton Public Library as their Featured Writer
2022 Oct — LitFest Presents: The Polyglot Magazine Issue 10 Launch (Edmonton, Canada)
2022 June — Proverbe romanesti potrivite pentru orice ocazie (Online workshop for ARCS Seattle)
2022 Jan — Translation Talks: Khaled Mattawa and Sarah Riggs (Hosted poetry and translation panel through Griffin Poetry Prize, virtual)
2021 Feb — You don’t have to write in English (Public workshop for Edmonton Public Library, Virtual, 78 attendees)
2020 Oct — The Polyglot - Issue 6 and 7 Virtual Film Launch (LitFest/PoFest, 20 poets, with Dorothy Thunder and Naomi McIlwraith)
2019 Apr — Translating Home (Edmonton Poetry Festival, CKUA Space, 10 poets)
2019 Mar — Multilingual Poetry Workshop (Public workshop at dc3 Art Projects, Edmonton, 15 attendees)
2018 Apr — Multilingual Voices in the CanLit Canon (Edmonton Poetry Festival, The Nook Cafe, 10 poets)
2017 Apr — The Polyglot: Multilingual Horizons (Edmonton Poetry Festival, Marshall McLuhan House, 10 poets)
Videos
Three poems for the Romanian Women Voices in North America series organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute of New York and Bucharest Beyond the Beltway (February, 2021)
poetry work
Editorial Director, Griffin Poetry Prize (2021 - Present)
Poetry in Voice Educator and Junior Anthology Editor (2016 - Present)
Founding Editor of The Polyglot, A Multilingual Magazine of Poetry and Art (2016 - Present)
Poetry Mentor to Candice Joy Oliva, Horizons Writers Circle, Writers’ Guild of Alberta (2022)
Edmonton Poetry Festival (PoFest) Program and Education Coordinator (2016 - 2019)
Grants & contests
Edmonton Arts Council Collective Large Project Grant for The Polyglot (2023)
CBC Poetry Prize Shortlist (2021)
Alberta Magazine Publisher’s Association Grant for The Polyglot (2021)
Canadian Heritage Grant for The Polyglot (2020)
Canadian Literature Centre (CLC) Poetry Contest Winner (2019)
Edmonton Arts Council Large Project Grant for The Polyglot (2019)
Edmonton Arts Council Cultural Diversity in the Arts Grant for Multilingual Poetry and Art Chapbook, Conjugated Light (2016)
Edmonton Poetry Festival’s Poetry Route Contest Winner (2016)