President prof. Pasquale Amato has presented the results of the 21st “Premio Internazionale di Poesia Nosside” (enlisted in Unesco World Poetry Directory) in Reggio Calabria . The Absolute Winner has been Rosa Silverio, poetess, writer, and journalist, born in 1978 in Santiago de los Caballeros in the Repubic of Santo Domingo.
Awarding other winners from all over the world, has highlighted the international perspective – mainly with respect to Latin America – of the competition organized by Reggio Calabria “Centro Studi Bosio”. The 5 Winners are Marissa Arroyal (Caracas - Venezuela), Fernanda Carolina De Paiva Dannemann (Rio de Janeiro - Brazil), María Cristina Pannunzio (Buenos Aires - Argentina), Maria Carmela Errico (Cerignola-Foggia - Italy) and Andrija Radulovic (Podgorica-Serbia and Montenegro).
The jury has been chaired by Prof. Giuseppe Amoroso and was formed, on behalf of the “Bosio”, by the vice-president Rosamaria Malafarina and by Clotilde Grisolia, as well as, among the poets “Ambasciatori del Nosside” (Nosside Ambassadors), by Giuseppe Cardello from Lentini (Syracuse, Sicily), Antonio Rossi from Berchidda (Sassari, Sardinia) and Angelo Rizzi from Draguignan (Francia). Vincenzina Laganà coordinated the Prize’s secretariat.
Special Mentions: for written poetry to Giuseppe Ambrogio from Lazzaro (Reggio Calabria) in Reggio Calabria dialect; Patricia Cabezas from Santiago del Chile; Ana María González from Buenos Aires (Argentina); Fausta Genziana Le Piane from Nicastro, which lives in Rome; Fernanda Mulin de Assis from Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); Thomas Mussenge from Congo, living in Liege (Belgio) in "tshiluba" language ; Antonio Nucera from Reggio Calabria in the language of Calabrian Greeks; for Video Poetry to Domenico Labate from Palermo, with the direction of Gaetano Labate and Music by Domenico Labate and Dario Mendola; for Music Poetry to Vittorio Merlo from Milan, in Luxembourg and to Laura Seragusa from Palermo, living in Rome.
Calogero Alaimo Di Loro from Racalmuto (Agrigento); Salvatore Cangiani from Sorrento (Napoli); Cinzia Corneli from Perugia; Katja Matoševic from Rovinj-Rovigno (Croatia); Felix O Silvanus from Lagos (Nigeria); Ronald Jefferson Peña Aldazabal from Lima (Peru); Lina Salvi from Lecco; Lara Sanjakdar from Treviso; Elena Daniela Sgondea from Orastie (Romania); and for music poetry Michele Conti from Syracuse, and Andrea Malavolti from Reggio Emilia have been mentioned.

President Amato said about 2005 Nosside awards:
“21st Edition’s results are glaring: 1) among the winners are four poetesses from Latin America; 2) the Absolute Winner, the Dominican twenty-seven-year old Rosa Silverio, has been the first non-European and the first within the Americas; 3) the other awards are a real achievement and a new extraordinay step taken by Nosside Prize organizers. Nosside Award as one single global poetry competition, has seen an increase in its competitors from 307 in 2004 to 403 in 2005, and in countries’participation from 13 in 2004 to 25 in 2005.
The reasons for such an exceptional success lay in the same results as three continents’ participation is evident. Without privileging or ruling out anyone.In fact Nosside Project’s point of strength has always been its proclaimed and pursued idea of poetry without any language and communicative form limits. Therefore, a competitor from Reggio Calabria has the same chances as one from any far away country, and will not be privileged. A competitor from Chile or Tahiti knows he will be judged like one who lives in Reggio Calabria, learning to know and value – thanks to the “Nosside” example - the City of Bergamot after which Italy was named, with its wonderful “Lungomare” (promenade) and its very precious Museum.
On occasion of the Ceremony on 2 December in Reggio Calabria Rosa Silverio will be given Boccioni Nosside Plate made by the Master Goldsmith Gerardo Sacco; besides, she has won 1,000 €, free participation in “Nosside 2005” Anthology, and a trip to Italy in December. She will attend 6th Nosside Caribe Awards Ceremony in Cuba in February 2006. The Winners will be granted Nosside Plate, 400 €, and the presence in the Anthology. Specially Mentioned Poets will have the possibility to have one poem published in the Anthology, by “Città del Sole Edizioni” in Reggio Calabria together with “Editorial Letras Cubanas” in Havana.

Prof. Amato announced the new Awards “Speciali Nosside Club” proposed by Nosside Club to intellectuals who have advocated the strong idea of Bosio’s boundless poetry. The first two “Speciali Nosside Club” winners are: 1) il prof. Franco Mosino, a renowned grecist who have opened new frontiers in the research field dealing with “Odyssey”’s true author, breaking an ancient taboo ; 2) the brothers Alfonso and Gino Tramontana (Kysha25), who gained Music Nosside Prize on occasion of the 17th Edition aiming high quality levels wich enabled the production of a CD with the best Cuban musicians, such as the mythical Los Van Van Band.
Bosio and Nosside Club are going to organize two events related to Nosside Day on 2th December: Prof. Mosino’s lecture on the Calchidian Odyssey and the presentation of Kysha25 new CD.