Marc Alan Di Martino

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About Marc Alan Di Martino
Marc Alan Di Martino was born in the United States in 1974. He is the author of Unburial (Kelsay Books, 2019) and co-editor, along with Betsy Mars, of the anthology Unsheathed: 24 Contemporary Poets Take Up the Knife (Kingly Street Press, 2019.) He lives in Italy.
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Blog postEugenio Montale with friend I have three new translations of Eugenio Montale’s poetry at On the Seawall*. Along with Dante, Montale was one of the first poets I read in lingua when I was studying Italian in New York City. I remember my first-ever class at Parliamo Italiano, on 65th St. My teacher was Regina, a brazen Florentine. She walked into class – it must have been early September – fanning herself with a hand. “Fa caldo!” she said, emphatically. One student asked, a mild expression of1 month ago Read more
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Blog postAfter nearly three years of trying, I’ve finally managed to land another poem in Rattle’s ‘Poets Respond’ series. I love this series; the poems chosen are often excellent (and always interesting), poetic responses to the weekly news cycle. “Still” was my response to the deadlock of the 2020 election: exhausted, burned out and anxious for them to “call it”, the nine lines wrote themselves largely unconsciously – as so often happens with poetry – as I looked out the window and noticed birds sti4 months ago Read more
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Blog postA year after publication, Unburial has its first book review! Stefano Maria Casella has reviewed it for Italian Americana, and has this to say:
It is a complex story, with highs and lows, dreams (the dream of the
young girl visiting Rome and finding her “love”) and tragedies (“Timonium”), pleasant episodes and gloomy moments. But no happy ending. It opens
with the meeting of a young American girl (“An American in Rome” or
“The innocent abroad”) with a kind of local Lat4 months ago Read more -
Blog postWith so much going on, I completely forgot to post this back in March. My image, “Indietro”, was chosen for the Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge in February. Here it is accompanied by Stephanie Shlachtman’s poem “They Tried to Cover Her Up“, which was my pick as artist. The other winning poem, chosen by editor Tim Green, was Mary Ann Honecker’s “When Peeled Back“. Both poems are mind-bending responses to the image, which is a photograph of a billboard in Perugia I snapped outside my daughter’s sch7 months ago Read more
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Blog postIt was a pleasure to have been a guest on last night’s Rattlecast with editor Tim Green. I tried not to think about the fact that my episode is bookended by poets such as Dorianne Laux (#44) and Sonia Greenfield (#46). But there it is. With Tim’s okay, I just wanted to let it rip with little or no premeditation. Maybe it’s kind of raw at points, though I hope I managed to say one or two things of general interest to listeners besides just reading my poems. I’ve only given three readings in my9 months ago Read more
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Blog postBig news! I’ll be appearing on Rattle‘s Rattlecast #45 on June 9, 2020 at 3pm EST. I’ll be reading from Unburial and talking with Rattle editor Tim Green about poetry and whatever else comes up. Tune in to the livestream on YouTube. The Facebook event is here if you’d like more information.
See you on the 9th!
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Blog postL to R: me, Will, Dora, Damiano, John & Nicole.
I’m sure I’ll never do another reading quite this awesome in all my days. Somehow I shared a stage in Rome with Dora Malech, John Murillo, Nicole Sealey and Will Schutt. Don’t ask how, but it went down on January 2, 2020 (today is the ultra-rare Palindrome Day – 02/02/2020 – which hasn’t happened in 900 years and won’t again for another thousand), already a month ago, and I’m just now getting around to posting the audio I made of the1 year ago Read more -
Blog postI’m pleased to announce I’ll be reading with Dora Malech, John Murillo, Will Schutt and Nicole Sealey at Otherwise/Altroquando Bookshop on January 2, 2020. If you’re in or near Rome for the New Year, swing on by and say hi, have a beer and hear some def poetry.
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Blog postSaturday, Dec. 7 I’m doing a book launch for Unburial at the Anglo American Book in Rome – with Moira Egan! If you’re in the area, come on by and say hello.
Anglo American Book – Via della Vite 102 (Piazza di Spagna) – 6pm Come hear poetry by American poets Marc Alan Di Martino & Moira Egan read from their recent books Unburial (Kelsay Books) and Synaesthesium (New Criterion Prize) at the historic Anglo American Book (Est.1953) near the Spanish Steps in Rome, Italy.
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Blog postI’d almost forgotten – well, not really, I just have little time – to mention the anthology Unsheathed: 24 Contemporary Poets Take up the Knife, which came out in October, on almost the same day as UNBURIAL. The anthology is edited by Betsy Mars, and is a collection of original poems inspired by an offhand line of mine, “Knives cut both bread and throats.” Betsy and I were chatting about social media, its virtues and its drawbacks, and I fired off a line she liked. We exchanged po1 year ago Read more
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