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Early life and career

Gjekë Marinaj was born in 1965 in the small town of Brrut located in the Malësi e Madhe District

Malësi e Madhe District

The Malësi e Madhe District is one of the thirty-six districts of Albania, part of Shkodër County. It has a population of 36,091 , and an area of 555 km². It is in the north of the country, and its capital is Koplik...

of northern Albania

Albania

Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...

, half-way through the four-decade rule of communist leader Enver Hoxha

Enver Hoxha

Enver Halil Hoxha was a Marxist–Leninist revolutionary andthe leader of Albania from the end of World War II until his death in 1985, as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania...

. Raised within an authoritarian state, Marinaj aspired to a writing career early on and studied journalism in Vlora. He wrote for several media outlets, first for local newspapers in Shkodra, the capital of his native province, then for a series of national publications including (The Voice of Youth), (The Fighter), and (The Volunteer).

Marinaj quickly tired of shaping his reporting to meet the ideological standards of the censors. Though he kept his job as a restricted correspondent, he started pouring his energy into poetry where his thoughts ran free. He describes his early efforts as well crafted but juvenile ruminations on his own love or joy or sadness; but his poetry turned outward as his political awareness grew and he began to recognize the fundamental injustice rooted in the Albanian state and the pervasive fear in which the people lived.

He kept his more controversial poems to himself for good reason: Speaking out against the Hoxha regime usually resulted in severe punishment. Losing favor with the regime would mean years of manual labor. A single misstep of one member of a family often ruined the whole family's prospects for generations. Worse, one did not even have to speak out against the government to be nullified. In 1977, government agents hanged poets Vilson Blloshmi and Genc Leka in the street not for criticizing the government but for not being zealous in their support. The agents left them hanging in full view as a warning for passersby. One of those passersby was Marinaj.

Though Hoxha died in 1985, the government maintained its repressive ways. Even so, Marinaj showed some of his poems to a sympathetic group of editors at Drita, the official publication of the Albanian Writer's Union and the country's foremost literary publication. One of those poems, the twenty-two lined "Horses", was a thinly veiled sneer at the government. Marinaj used the horse as a metaphor for the Albanian people: bridled and confined, abused until broken, and robbed of free will. The poem appeared in Drita on August 19, 1990, and the response was immediate and overwhelming. The sheer audacity of publishing such a clearly subversive poem in a national publication amazed the Albanians (and soon after the international community as well). It tapped into a vein filled with decades of pent-up resentment and anger, the same resentment and anger that had accumulated in communist regimes throughout Eastern Europe. Within hours, copies of Drita sold out across the country, so people took to scrawling the poem on scraps of paper and passing it to one another in the subways and on the streets. Months later, protestors chanted the poem through megaphones during anti-government demonstrations which, according to some international political historians, helped a great deal to start the anticommunist movement in Albania.

Escape and eventual immigration to the United States

The totalitarian hammer fell soon afterwards. One day, an agent of the secret police approached Marinaj during his lunch break and informed him that he was to show up at their headquarters the next morning. Marinaj never learned what his punishment would be because he left that same evening, gathering a few books and a blanket and hiking all night through the mountains. The urgency of his situation left him no time to say goodbye to family and friends. In the morning, he crossed into the former Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

near Podgorica

Podgorica

Podgorica , is the capital and largest city of Montenegro.Podgorica's favourable position at the confluence of the Ribnica and Morača rivers and the meeting point of the fertile Zeta Plain and Bjelopavlići Valley has encouraged settlement...

, Montenegro

Montenegro

Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...

. He spent several months in a refugee camp near Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

and was later moved to Hotel Avala, a mountaintop tourist resort that had been converted to a refugee camp by the United Nations. He secured work installing telephone lines, spending his free time studying Serbian. Though relations between ethnic Albanians and Serbians in nearby Kosovo

Kosovo

Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...

at that time remained in crisis, Marinaj's Serbian neighbors firmly embraced him.

While at Avala, Marinaj met with U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia Warren Zimmermann

Warren Zimmermann

Warren Zimmermann was a diplomat, humanitarian and the last US ambassador to Yugoslavia before its disintegration into civil war.-Background:...

seeking permanent residency in the United States. Already familiar with Marinaj's situation after rereading a copy of "Horses", Zimmerman shook his hand and welcomed him to America.

He arrived in San Diego in July 1991 with little money and no English. Within six months, he moved from California to Richardson, Texas

Richardson, Texas

Richardson is a city in Dallas and Collin Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 99,223. In 2011 the population was estimated to be 107,684. Richardson is an affluent inner suburb of Dallas and home of the Telecom Corridor with a high...

where he earned an associate's degree in science from Brookhaven College

Brookhaven College

Brookhaven College, located in Farmers Branch, Texas , is one of seven colleges of the Dallas County Community College District . Brookhaven opened in 1978 and is the newest DCCCD college....

. Marinaj continued his education at the University of Texas at Dallas

University of Texas at Dallas

The University of Texas at Dallas, also referred to as UT Dallas or UTD, is a public research university in the University of Texas System. The main campus is in the heart of the Richardson, Texas, Telecom Corridor, north of downtown Dallas...

where he graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2006 with a bachelor's in literary studies. He followed that effort with a master's degree in the same subject in 2008. He currently teaches English and communications courses at Richland College

Richland College

Richland College is a community college that is part of the Dallas County Community College District and is located near the Lake Highlands area of Dallas, Texas near the border with Richardson and Garland. The school was founded in 1972 and is the largest school in the DCCCD, featuring nearly...

as he nears completion of his humanities doctorate at his alma mater. His doctorate focuses on literature and translation as well as certification in the UTD

University of Texas at Dallas

Holocaust Studies Program.

While perusing his education, he continued working as a freelance journalist for the Albanian media. His freelance work includes interviews of President George Herbert Walker Bush, the ninth and current President of the State of Israel Shimon Peres

Shimon Peres

GCMG is the ninth President of the State of Israel. Peres served twice as the eighth Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years...

, and world-renowned soccer player Pelé

Pelé

However, Pelé has always maintained that those are mistakes, that he was actually named Edson and that he was born on 23 October 1940.), best known by his nickname Pelé , is a retired Brazilian footballer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time...

Translation and literary work

Marinaj has established himself as a prolific and accomplished author, editor, and translator since arriving in America. He edited more than a dozen books and translated two books from Albanian into English: Sung Across the Shoulder: The Heroic Poetry of Illyria (translations with Frederick Turner) and Occurrence on earth, a selection of Preç Zogaj's best poems. Marinaj has also translated four books of poetry from English into Albanian

Albanian language

Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia and northwestern Greece...

: (The Hour of Peace) by Rainer Schulte; (In Plato's Cave) by Frederick Turner; and (American Poetry), an anthology of major contemporary American poets that includes Ted Kooser

Ted Kooser

Ted Kooser is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006.-Early Life:...

, Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder is an American poet , as well as an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist . Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry...

, and Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou is an American author and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly...

. As of 2011, he is in the process of publishing his translation of Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel

Sir Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE; born September 30, 1928) is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and...

's Night
Night (book)
Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father, Shlomo, in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust and toward the end of the Second World War...

into Albanian.

Published books

Marinaj has published collections of his own poetry as well as collections of his journalism and literary criticism.

His three books of poetry include (Do Not Depart From Me), (Infinite), and (Prayer on the Eighth Day of the Week).

In addition to his poetry collections, he published a book of author interviews titled (The Other Side of the Mirror), a book of selected articles and essays titled (Some things can’t be kept secret), and one book of literary criticism titled (Protonism: theory into practice).

Recognitions and critical reception

Marinaj received the Pjetër Arbnori

Pjetër Arbnori

Pjetër Filip Arbnori was an Albanian gulag survivor. He was dubbed "the Mandela of the Balkans" by Albanian statesmen because of the length of his 28 year internment. He was born in Durrës, on the Adriatic coast...

Prize (the Albanian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

) for literature from QNK, part of the Albanian Ministry of Culture, First Place (Poetry) for Recurring Daymare awarded by The Reunion: The Dallas Review, and The Golden Pen from the Society of Albanian-American Writers in journalism for The Other Side of the Mirror.

He continues to write both poetry and prose but has focused much of his time and study on translation. He views it as a greater service to reveal an existing but unknown masterpiece than to produce an original but inferior work of his own. Nevertheless, his poetry, prose, and literary criticism remain popular in the international community and have garnered praise from several literary critics and authors of note. Speaking of his poetry, Nobel Prize candidate in literature Ismail Kadare

Ismail Kadare

Ismail Kadare is an Albanian writer. He is known for his novels, although he was first noticed for his poetry collections. In the 1960s he focused on short stories until the publication of his first novel, The General of the Dead Army. In 1996 he became a lifetime member of the Academy of Moral...

said, "Gjekë Marinaj is one of the most distinguished Albanian poets of our time. He belongs among Europe's best poets. In his poetic universe, there transpires a superb harmony between the high spirit of the Balkans—the continent's most storied region—and the Earth-bound reality of existence.... As often happens with true poets, the poetic spirit moves from his life to his verse and vice versa."

See critical reception of Marinaj's work.

Literary theory of Gjekë Marinaj

In 2005, Marinaj started developing his literary theory of "Protonism" in earnest. Recognized by numerous relevant international literary institutions and described at length in his book Protonizmi: Nga Teoria Në Praktikë (Protonism: Theory into Practice), protonism (or protonismiotics) describes a linguistic perception of artistic works as rooted in the fields of chemistry and physics. Protonism, in its simplest form, is a literary criticism theory which holds that there are positive and strong as well as negative and weak points in every piece of literature, but it argues that these positives and negatives are often constituted by a critic's personal interests, moral beliefs, and attitudes. Accordingly, literature is best studied and interpreted by concentrating on the positive elements of a work formed in response to natural law

Natural law

Natural law, or the law of nature , is any system of law which is purportedly determined by nature, and thus universal. Classically, natural law refers to the use of reason to analyze human nature and deduce binding rules of moral behavior. Natural law is contrasted with the positive law Natural...

theory and paying little or no attention to its weakest points. One approaches a work this way because, as this theory postulates, if one looks only for the bad, then one will find only the bad based on whatever one's definition of "bad" is.

Personal life

Marinaj, an American citizen,lives in Richardson, Texas

Richardson, Texas

with his Romanian-American wife Dusita, a registered nurse.

Essays, articles and published papers

“The concept of ‘zero or nothing’ and Shakespeare,” Nacional, Vol, III, No. 107, July 31 – August 7, 2011, pp. 1, 2
“Aftësia shëruese e nënës” Dielli-The Sun, Vol. 101, No.8 August 2010, p.19, 22
“Konflikti në prozën e Myrtajt”, Nacional, Vol, II, No. 22, January 24 – January 31, 2010, pp. 7
“Mitet tek proza e Naum Priftit”, Nacional, Vol, I, No. 23, December 6 - 13, 2009, pp. 13
“Misteri i fjalës së shkruar”, Nacional, Vol, I, No. 22, November 22¬ ¬- December 5, 2009, pp. 6
“Portretet e Rineke Dijkstrës”, Nacional, Vol, I, No. 21, November 8 – November 22, 2009, pp. 6
“Ju rrëfej tre përkthyesit e mij më te mire: Intervistë me Kadarenë”, Nacional, Vol, I, No. 11, June 21 - Julay 5, 2009, pp. 10-11
"An Interview with Denis Kratz", Pena International Vol. IX No. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 11–14.
"Translating the Significance of "Two" in Buçpapaj's Two Sheets of Wind", Pena International Vol. IX No. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 22–26.
"An interview with Ismail Kadare", Translation Review No. 76. 2008 pp. 11– 17
"The Poetic Vision of Preç Zogaj in Translation", Translation Review No. 76. 2008 pp. 42–54
"Ekzistenca humane: Romani i "Jehona e Kujtesës" i shkrimtarit Amerikan Richard Powers", Nacional 7 Shkurt 2010, p.
"Një përvojë me "hijet e virgjëreshave"", Albanian 26 Janar 2009, p. 18
"Time—a Multidimensional Problem, Metaphor—a Significant Solution", Nacional Vol, I, No. 3, March 1–15, 2009, pp. 7–8
"Reflections upon the literary achievement of Frederick Turner", Nacional Vol, I, No. 4, March 15–30, 2009, pp. 16–17
"Gjon Mili's Picasso, Space Drawing", Nacional Vol, I, No. 5, March 29-April 12, 2009, p. 10
"Anne Elliot's applied knowledge", Ptranslation.utdallas.edu/resources/pubs/TR76.pdfersuasion Delli-The Sun January–March, 2004, p. 13 Nacional, Vol, I, No. 19, October 25-November 8, 2009, p. 7
"The Rise and Fall of Lord Elgin and the Marbles", Delli-The Sun April–June, 2004, p. 12 Nacional, Vol, I, No. 6, April 12–19, 2009, pp. 6–7
"Renaissance Poets and the Meaning of Love", Nacional Vol, I, No. 7, April 26- May 10, 2009, p. 10
"Does the American news media have a liberal bias?", Nacional Vol, I, No. 8, May 10–24, 2009, p. 6
"Women and their fighting spirit in Western literature", Nacional Vol, I, No. 9, May 24–31, 2009, p. 20
"Fear as the fourth dimension in Miyazaki's anime", Nacional Vol, I, No. 10, June 7–21, 2009, pp. 12–13
"Jews and the lack of anti-semitism in Albania", Nacional Vol, I, No. 12, July 5–19, 2009, pp. 10–11
"Why Notre-Dame bells tolled?", Nacional Vol, I, No. 13, July 19-August 2, 2009, p. 15
"Nonverbal communication and facial expressions", Nacional Vol, I, No. 15, August 16-August 30, 2009, p. 9
"Poverty in Dostoevsky‘s Crime and Punishment", Nacional Vol, I, No. 17, September 13–27, 2009, p. 10
"Rineke Dijkstra's Portraiture", Nacional Vol, I, No. 21, November 8–22, 2009, p. 6
"Agim Shehu, kur poeti të frymëzon të bëhesh poet", Tema IX, No. 2726, August 23, 2009. p. 14
"Epistemologjia dhe metamorfizmi në ndihmë të një vepre letrare", Tema Tema, IX, No. 2731, June 31, 2009. p. 14
"Humanizmi si epiqendër e poezisë", Illyria No. 1725, 26-29 Shkurt, 2008, p. 37
"Poeti Mujë Buçpapaj prezantohet në Amerikë", Illyria No. 1709, 28 Dhjetor, 2007 – 3 Janar, 2008, p. 42
"Fitorja e padukshme", Albania Press 4 Janar 2008, p. 12
"Humanizmi si epiqendër e poezisë", Bota Sot 25 Shkurt, 2008, p. 16
"Këlliçi i mikrofonit sportiv bën 70 vjeç", në SHBA Intervistë me Skifter Këlliçin Shekulli 26 Janar, 2008, p.?
"Albanian Press apo "Parthenoni" i shqiptarëve të Athinës", Albania Press July 20, 2008. p. 8
""Më vjen keq Vegas", por ca gjëra nuk mund të mbetën sekret", Illyria No. 1646, 11 – 14 Maj, 2007, pp. 36–37
"Library acquires Albanian collection Gjekë Marinaj", Richardson Today April 2007, p. 12
“Prezantohet në Amerikë libri i Mujë Buçpapaj Fuitorja e Padukshme”, Kuvendi, Vol. VII, No. 11-12, November -December, 2007
“Protonizmi si epiqendër e veprës “Libra dhe mbresa” të Shefqet Dibranit”, Heamus, No. 26-27, Fall 2006, pp 180-185
"Frederick Turner, një avokat i përjetshëm në ndihmë të poezisë", Tema 2 Qershor, 2006, p. 21
"Çmimi Gjenima në Letërsi", Tema 26 Gusht, 2006, p. 12
"Anëtarët e Shshsha një dashuri e re në krahët e hapur të Çikagos së bukur", Illyria No. 1575, 25 – 28 Gusht, 2006, p. 19
"Hëna e poetit Dalan Luzaj, më në fund qesh me të madhe", Pavarsia News 3 Tetor, 2006, p. 21
"Dy nxënës Shqiptar—Krenaria e një shkolle amerikane", Illyria No. 1509, 6-9 Janar, 2006, p. 31
"Protonizmi si epiqendër e veprës "Libra dhe mbresa" të Shefqet Dibranit", Illyria No. 1519, 10 – 13 Shkurt, 2006, p. 33
"Vullneti për të bashkuar angazhimin politik me aktivitetet akademike", Pavarësia News 14 Shtator 2006, p. 9
"Merita Bajraktari McCormark mirëpritet në rradhët e Shshsh", Illyria No. 1496, 18-24, 2005
"Shqiptarët e Houston-it festuan me krenari festën e 28 Nëntorit", Illyria No. 1500, 2 – 5 Dhjetor, 2005, p. 18
"Shqiptarët e Dallasit edhe kur nuk bëjnë asgjë bëjnë diçka", Illyria No. 1441, 3 – 5 Maj, 2005, pp. 16–17
"Me poetin Agim Shehu nga Chicago në Michigan", Illyria No.1494, 4 – 7 Gusht, 2005, p. 16
""Ku ka zë nuk është pa gjë" qëndron edhe për poetin Adnan Mehmeti", Illyria No. 1504, 16 – 19 dhjetor, 2005, p. 34
"Kur shkruan me authoritetin e një shkrimtari bashkëkohor", Illyria No. 1324, 12 - 15 Mars, 2004, p. 31
"Concepti Simbolik dhe reflekset e sintezave të sensibilitetit dhe sensivitetit në legjendën Rozafat", Illyria No. 1307, 13 -15 Janar, 2004, p. 30
"The bluest eye and the concept of beauty", Illyria No. 1274 September 12–15, 2003. P. 31
"A Great Poem Written By a Great Poet", Delli-The Sun April–June, 2003, p. 13
"A quick response to Toomer's Blood-burning moon", Delli-The Sun July–September, 2003, p. 1
"Një këngëtar i ri në ndihmë të poezisë së diasporës", Bota Sot 7 Shtator, 2003, p. 18
"Mozaiku i ngjyrave dhe dramaciteti i brendshëm i një poeti", Bota Sot 9 Nëntor, 2003, p. 18
"Kur poeti të frymëzon të bëhesh poet", Illyria No. 1270, 29 Gusht – 1 Shtator, 2003, p. 34
""Syri më i kaltër" dhe idetë e shoqërisë për bukurinë humane", Illyria No. 1274, 12 – 15 Shtator, 2003
"Peter R. Prifti: Shkrimtari duhet të jetë i pa-anshëm fund e krye, dhe jo partizan Subjektiv Intervistë me Peter R. Prifti", Illyria No. 1293, 18 – 20 Nëntor, 2003, p. 27
"Poetët nuk vdesin – ata vetëm kalojnë në orën e njëzetepestë të ditës", Illyria No. 1179, 1-3 Tetor, 2001, p. 24
"Esenca e një poezie që u rrit ne heshtje", Illyria No. 993, 5 – 7 Dhjetor, 2000, p. 25
"Poeti dhe detyra e tij poetike", The Poets’ Times April–May 1997, p. 13
"Disa Probleme që poezia Shqipe i vuan në heshtje", The Poet's Times August – September 1997, p. 10
"A new voice of poetry in America", The Poets’ Times December 1996, pp. 1–3
"Gjurmë që lëndojnë plagë shpirtërore", Albanian Herald July 1993, p. 15
"Njerëz që kërkojnë të turbullojnë ujërat", Jeta e re Vol. XXIV. No. 68 (2529), 25 Gusht 1990, p. 3

Interviews

"From Dallas to the Balkans: The literary reach of Dennis Kratz", An interview with Dennis Kratz Pena International Vol. IX. No.1 Spring 2010, pp. 10–13
"An interview with Ismail Kadare", Translation Review No. 76. 2008, pp. 11–17
"An interview with President George Bush", Gazeta Shqiptare 30 Shtator 2000, pp. 12–13
"Pele: Çdo ndeshje futbolli e shikoj me sinqeritetin e një fëmije", Intervistë me Pelen Illyria, No. 1285, 21-23 Tetor, 2003, p. 24
"Fadil Vokrri, legjenda e papërsëritur e futbollit shqiptar" Intervistë me Fadil Vokrrin, Illyria, No. 1289, 4-6 Nëntor, 2003, p. 24
"Amaneti i Prenk Grudës", Intervistë me Prenk Grudën Illyria, No. 1288, 31 Tetor – 3 Nëntor, 2003, p. 31
"Me fituesin e Çmimit Booker në Letërsi, James Kelman", The Poet's Times August – September, 1997, p. 7
"Tregimet e Ramiz Gjinit më kanë kujtuar ditët e mia të para këtu në Amerikë", Intervistë me Ramiz Gjinin Illyria, No. 1300, 16 – 18 Dhjetor 2003. p. 22
"Ismail Kadare: Shkrimtari mund ta qetësojë ose mund ta shqetësojë kombin", Intervistë me Ismail Kadare Illyria, No. 1295, 28 Nëntor – 2 Dhjetor, 2003. p. 52
"Këlliçi i mikrofonit sportiv bën 70 vjeç, në SHBA", Intervistë me Skifter Këlliçin Shekulli, 26 Janar, 2008, p.?

The Albanian Dictionary of New Words

Ashtushëm Fjalori i Fjalëve të reja, neologjizmave, fjalëformimeve, kompozitave dhe fjalëve të krijuara, Author i fjalorit Ali A. Berisha., Buzuku. Klinë, 2006, p. 26
Buzëderdhur Fjalori i Fjalëve të reja, neologjizmave, fjalëformimeve, kompozitave dhe fjalëve të krijuara, Author i fjalorit Ali A. Berisha., Buzuku. Klinë, 2006, p. 82
Detishte Fjalori i Fjalëve të reja, neologjizmave, fjalëformimeve, kompozitave dhe fjalëve të krijuara, Author i fjalorit Ali A. Berisha., Buzuku. Klinë, 2006, p. 108
Dritëfikura Fjalori i Fjalëve të reja, neologjizmave, fjalëformimeve, kompozitave dhe fjalëve të krijuara, Author i fjalorit Ali A. Berisha., Buzuku. Klinë, 2006, p. 127
Fjalëheshtur Fjalori i Fjalëve të reja, neologjizmave, fjalëformimeve, kompozitave dhe fjalëve të krijuara, Author i fjalorit Ali A. Berisha., Buzuku. Klinë, 2006, p. 176
Grihtë Fjalori i Fjalëve të reja, neologjizmave, fjalëformimeve, kompozitave dhe fjalëve të krijuara, Author i fjalorit Ali A. Berisha., Buzuku. Klinë, 2006, p. 205
Luleëndërr Fjalori i Fjalëve të reja, neologjizmave, fjalëformimeve, kompozitave dhe fjalëve të krijuara, Author i fjalorit Ali A. Berisha., Buzuku. Klinë, 2006, p. 321
Ndjenjëfjetur Fjalori i Fjalëve të reja, neologjizmave, fjalëformimeve, kompozitave dhe fjalëve të krijuara, Author i fjalorit Ali A. Berisha., Buzuku. Klinë, 2006, p. 366
Ndjenjëthyer Fjalori i Fjalëve të reja, neologjizmave, fjalëformimeve, kompozitave dhe fjalëve të krijuara, Author i fjalorit Ali A. Berisha., Buzuku. Klinë, 2006, p. 336

Other published poems

"Antigona", Illyria No. 2038 April1-4, 2011. P. 36
"Autoportret i Avancuar", Illyria No. 2038 April1-4, 2011. P. 36
"Recurring Daymare", Sojourn, 2006
"Names for Rock Bands", Dallas Poets, First Edition, 21 July 2007,
"Bosnia, 1995", Dallas Poets, First Edition, 21 July 2007,
"Lullaby Singers", Dallas Poets, First Edition, 21 July 2007
"Where Was I Last Night?", Dallas Poets, First Edition, 21 July 2007
"A Mother Speaks to Her Poet Son", Bosnia, 1995, Dallas Poets, First Edition, 21 July 2007
"The Bureaucrats Were Not Children's Kites", Modern Authors 1. 2007
"The Horses", Modern Authors 1. 2007
"Sunday Prayer", Modern Authors 1. 2007
"Snow", Modern Authors 1. 2007
"Propel my World", Modern Authors 1. 2007
"She Brought Cancún to its Knees", Modern Authors 1. 2007
"Recurring day-mare", Modern Authors 1. 2007
"Lullaby Singers", Modern Authors 1. 2007
"To Dusitsa - Unawaresj", January 2010
"We Were Adolescents And Put Off Love", January 2010
"You shall sense my halting step", January 2010
"Your eyes", January 2010
"A mother speaks to her poet son", January 2010
"Which one of us is me?", January 2010
"Albania", January 2010
"The Girls of California", January 2010
"To Dusitsa – Unawares", January 2010
"Autoportret i avancuar", Albania 11 Maj, 2009, p. 18,
"Purgatori", Albania 11 Maj, p. 18
"Udhëtim me lundrën e Akeronit", Albania 11 Maj, p. 18
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"Purgatori", Albania 11 Maj, p. 18
"Udhëtim me lundrën e Akeronit", Albania 11 Maj, p. 18
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"Të gjitha juritë do më falnin", Poeteka Val. 5, No. 17, Dimër 2008/2009, p. 25
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