I was born in Rome in "the year of the barricades." In my youth I lived abroad and attended American and International schools, acquiring my love for the English language, which I wear as a second skin. I hold an MA in American Literature and wrote my dissertation on Toni Morrison's works. I manage a translation agency for a living. Read, I transcreate.
In 2010 while in San Francisco I had a cathartic encounter with poet laureate Jack Hirschman.
My poems have appeared or are forthcoming in several online and print journals, magazines and anthologies. My first poetry chapbook Guerrilla Blues (Edizioni Ensemble) has been published in 2012. My second poetry chapbook Nocturne (Edizioni Pulcinoelefante) has been published in 2013. I am the editor and translator of Rome's Revolutionary Poets Brigade (Volume 1) anthology, which has been released in the month of May 2012. I have just finished translating into English the poems of fellow poet Marco Cinque that will soon be published by the American publisher CC.Marimbo Press.
Current WIP: I am writing the biography of poet laureate Jack Hirschman.
In 2010 while in San Francisco I had a cathartic encounter with poet laureate Jack Hirschman.
My poems have appeared or are forthcoming in several online and print journals, magazines and anthologies. My first poetry chapbook Guerrilla Blues (Edizioni Ensemble) has been published in 2012. My second poetry chapbook Nocturne (Edizioni Pulcinoelefante) has been published in 2013. I am the editor and translator of Rome's Revolutionary Poets Brigade (Volume 1) anthology, which has been released in the month of May 2012. I have just finished translating into English the poems of fellow poet Marco Cinque that will soon be published by the American publisher CC.Marimbo Press.
Current WIP: I am writing the biography of poet laureate Jack Hirschman.
Nice to find you. I too love Valduga (to whom I have written my first set of quatrains back) and now, thanks to you, know Merini. Her story reminds me of Mary Girard who was placed in Pennsylvania Hospital's Asylum by her husband, the philanthropist banker for having taken a lover and become pregnant by him. She remained there for 25 years going stark raving mad without the benefit of writing poetry. Girard's $4000 check to Dr. Benj. Rush is still on display at the Atwater Kent Museum. See The Insanity of Mary Girard
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