Dr. Delia Grigore: Romani Poetry and Poetics ERIAC
2026-05-11
Dr. Delia Grigore: Romani Poetry and Poetics
by the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture - 21 nov 2023
Romani poetics is the study of Romani poetry that seeks to explore the mythos, tropes, structures, forms, and discourse in literature, and especially poetry, produced by Romani authors. In seeking to understand the poetics of Romani poetry and Romani poets, Dr. Grigore's masterclass argues that Romani writers represent part of the creative genius of the Romani people and one that is grounded in orality – the inheritance of a spoken not written tradition that is retained in the structures of Romani poetry, in its tropes that feature mobility, movement, and the mechanisms of migration (amongst others), and a discourse around identities that frequently takes the form of the lament, elegiac and heroic.
Dr. Delia Grigore is a Roma writer, researcher, and activist from Romania, with a PhD in visual arts from the Institute of Ethnography and Folklore of the Romanian Academy. She serves as president of the association Rroma Centre "Amare Rromentza", and has been working in the Roma movement for more than two decades. An author of three books and numerous articles and studies on Romani culture and literature, she edited Rromane Dikhimata (Rromane Perspectives): Anthology of Rromani Literary Creation in 2018. A poet and writer, Grigore is a lecturer at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Rromani Language and Literature Section, and also a member of the Writers Society "Costache Negri" in Romania.