Poetry Rules

I will be reading at Café Voltaire next Thurday 20th evening together with other members of Rome's Revolutionary Poets Brigade, Edoardo Olmi, Angelo Zabaglio & Andrea Coffami and Marco Cinque. We are presenting our latest Anthology, Articolo 1 (Albeggi Edizioni). I am very pleased that poet Maria Desiderio will join us. As always, music will be played by Giuseppe Natale and our Marco Cinque! See you there.

I still have Siena lingering in my eyes, but I am also focused on the new poetry books coming out this April. The new Rome's Revolutionary Poets Brigade Anthology I have edited with fellow poet and poetical brother Marco Cinque, Articolo 1: Una Repubblica AFfondata sul Lavoro is about to be published by Albeggi Edizioni , with poems by Marco Cinque, Olga Campofreda, Ludovica Lanini, Massimiliano Dimaggio, Marco Lupo, Edoardo Olmi, John Claude Smith, Angelo Zabaglio & Andrea Coffami and the undersigned. It deals with work and we hope it will be a strong anthology that may leave a mark. The introduction is by poet Agneta Falk . It is a beautiful introduction. I am posting it here below: To begin at the beginning,---the cover by Marco Cinque depicting a face of a girl with eyes that seem to look back into the future. The word Mortacci is a strong statement with which to begin this equally strong and engaging anthology. In a time when work no longer is a given, when capit...

SF poet laureate Jack Hirschman and Rome's Revolutionary Poets Brigade --i.e. Marco Cinque, Alessandra Bava, Olga Campofreda, Marco Lupo, Angelo Zabaglio/Andrea Coffami, Ludovica Lanini, Mariano Macale, Fabio Apperito & Marco De Cave--will be reading at the Circolo degli Artisti here in Rome next Thursday, May 17th. Mark the date. The Brigade will also be presenting their first Anthology published by Edizioni Ensemble , that I've edited and translated. We promise poetry will be incendiary! See you there. Segnate la data sull'agenda. Giovedì 17 maggio, il poeta laureato di San Francisco, Jack Hirschman , e la  Rome's Revolutionary Poets Brigade (ovvero Marco Cinque, Alessandra Bava, Olga Campofreda, Marco Lupo, Angelo Zabaglio/Andrea Coffami, Ludovica Lanini, Mariano Macale, Fabio Apperito & Marco De Cave) terranno un reading al Circolo degli Artisti in Via Casilina Vecchia 42. La Brigade presenterà anche la sua prima Antologia poetica, pubblicata da Edizio...

I wish to thank my publisher, Edizioni Ensemble, and Matteo in particular, for having published my bilingual chapbook in just 3 months and for selecting the lovely Cantina Paradiso in Trastevere as the setting for the book launch of GUERRILLA BLUES on April 12. And, all my gratitude goes to Rome's Revolutionary Poets Brigadistas, Olga Campofreda, Marco Cinque, Ludovica Lanini and Angelo Zabaglio for presenting me and for reading and performing my poems so beautifully. A special thanks to my friend, actor Maximilian Nisi, for reading the poem "Consistency" so theatrically. A heartfelt thanks to everyone of you who took part and to all of you who bought the book. I hope you'll love it. Desidero ringraziare il mio editore, Edizioni Ensemble, ed in modo particolare Matteo, per aver pubblicato il mio libro in soli 3 mesi e per aver scelto la deliziosa Cantina Paradiso  in quel di Trastevere per la presentazione di GUERRILLA BLUES, lo scorso 12 aprile. Tutta la mia grat...