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On a combustibile moment such as this, with Putin’s Ukrainian war poisoning the atmosphere,what could America and Russia still have in common? Experimental poetry is the unlikely answer. And, even more unlikely, it took a bunch of devoted  Italian experimentalists...

Maria Borio  Transparencies   Translated from Italian by  Danielle Pieratti   The visceral and surreal English-language debut of one of Italy’s most promising young poets.   Book Presentation | October 5, 2022 6PM   Italian Cultural Institute 686 Park Avenue,...

On January 26th, 2022, Italian artist Ettore Spalletti (1940-2019) would have turned 82, after spending all his life in or around Cappelle sul Tavo, a small town in the Province of Pescara encapsulated between the Apennines and the Adriatic Sea,...

In honor of the 700th anniversary of the death of the poet, Ann C. Pizzorusso has published a new book, The Gems of Dante’s Divine Comedy (La Gemmologia della Divina Commedia, Italian edition).

Lawrence Ferlinghetti was a champion and publisher of many of the Beat writers, whose sense of rebellion and literary abandon captured my imagination…it wasn’t until I returned to New York City after that trip when I met him and spoke...

Many people struggle while they quarantine or travel alone. With packed schedules and social media, we no longer look into ourselves for a source of beauty, but as the German poet Rilke points out, there is a world inside of...

The poet Montale loved music and dance. He first saw Carla Fracci perform on March 5th, 1955, in her performance of Farewell Steps (Passo d’addio) for La Scala’s Ballet School. His admiration continued from the moment Fracci entered into the...

The Free Verse meets InScena! events will take place during the Festival and in collaboration with the NeON, NYC Department of Probation. They will be moments of creative exchange and a space for conviviality, because sharing a place brings people...