Short biography and photo, author Concetta La Placa (in facebook Cettina La Placa Tumminelli).
Concetta La Placa is a poet, writer, aphorist, critic, translator, social activist and author of the magazine Alessandria Today.
She is known in the international poetic scene because her poems have been published in 50 about anthologies of various authors and magazines from different countries of the world and translated in differente language od different Country (Spain, Serbia, Bangladesh, India, Brazil, United States, Peru, Uruguay, Vietnam, Mexico, Costa Rica, Turchia, Colombia, Portugal, Iran, Albania ecc.).
She has published nine collections of poetry, and other one collection is already being published soon in this days,: “Love beyond memories” Edition C. Vitale, Sanremo.
She is Ambassador of Peace and Culture of the IFCH Forum and also Ambassador of Indonesia by Rini Valentina.
She received Dottorato honoris causa of Forum internazional for Creativity and Humanity Regno del Marocco Reg. n. 43/2018 fnaydek Marocco, for her efforts in the fields of culture, art, peace, coexistence and humanity.
In summit 2025 Camara International Escritores & Artists ( CIESART) she’ll riceve Doctor Honoris Causa.
She received Laurea Honoris causa by The International organization by Aziz Mountassir( Ambassador of peace, literary and human rights.
She is member of:
– Carta de la Paz Project (Dra. Hc María Elena Ramírez).
– RRM3, President, lProf. George Onsy of
RENAISSANCE Millennium III.
– She is an official member (honorary consultant) of an organization called «Chair of Women», connected to the ONU.
– She is a member of Accademy Of Farsala – Atene, president Yannis Fikas.
She lives in Rome.
She has worked as a professor at the L.U.M.S.A. University of Rome and at the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies for the promotion of
Human Rights (childhood and adolescence and the fight against poverty).
Over the years, he has given several interviews to leading magazines. The most recent one was published in Hassane Yarti’s latest work, Unwritten Chapter, Vol. II. She received a lot of awards and recognitions.

WE WILL NEVER SHIPWRECK AGAIN.

You and I, sitting here,
on this isolated rock,
where the wind, undaunted,
moves SEA AIR,
we are still together.

So, we observe
the raging waves,
as they did on
those days that marked
our lives.

Now, we wait for
the calm to arrive, in silence,
still holding hands,
despite the debris
that surrounds us.

It is thus, strongly,
embraced
by our new destiny,
we will
never shipwreck in our souls.
© Concetta La Placa
2) NIGHT-TIME CIRCLE OF THOUGHTS.

In the depths
of the night,
my thoughts
reveal themselves
in my mind.
They are all there,
knocking.
They crowd together,
one on top of the other,
mingling,
blending together,
good and bad.
They go away
and come back,
becoming
urgent.
My soul
absorbs
their essence,
soaks up
their humus
and sinks
into the anguished
circle
that encloses them.
Then it attempts
an escape,
but gets bogged down
together
with the mind.
The heart,
then,
seeks
a loophole,
allowing
a faint ray
of hope
to penetrate
from the bright
glimmer of a new dawn. © Concetta La Placa