Ecco una "biografia" che arriva dagli Stati Uniti. E' James Bertolino, anno 1942 con nonni torinesi.
James Bertolino was born in Pence, Wisconsin (USA) in 1942. His grandfather and grandmother immigrated from the province of Torino in Italy, early in the 20th century. He is a widely published poet and prose writer, and his work has appeared in PLOUGHSHARES, POETRY, NOTRE DAME REVIEW, BELOIT POETRY JOURNAL, PRAIRIE SCHOONER, INDIANA REVIEW, WISCONSIN REVIEW, NEW MEXICO QUARTERLY, FLORIDA QUARTERLY and many other magazines. His poetry has been reprinted internationally in anthologies from India, Italy, Great Britain and the U.S., including POETI ITALO-AMERICANI, edited by Ferdinando Alfonsi, 1985, Antonio Carello Editore in Italy, and CENTURY: 100 MAJOR MODERN POETS, published in England. Nine volumes have issued from such publishers as Copper Canyon Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, New Rivers Press, the Quarterly Review of Literature Award Series at Princeton University and Egress Studio Press, which released his POCKET ANIMALS: 60 POEMS in 2002.
His work has been featured in the U.S. on National Public Radio’s “Theme & Variations: Music and World Literature” and on Public Radio programs in Seattle and Portland. His poetry collaborations with Anita Boyle have been gathered in chapbooks titled TAVERN WRITINGS, PUB PROCEEDINGS and BAR EXAMS, as well as in the anthology SAINTS OF HYSTERIA: A HALF-CENTURY OF COLLABORATIVE AMERICAN POETRYS, 2007, Soft Skull Press.
Bertolino received a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Cornell University in 1973, and was a professor of literature and creative writing from 1973 to 2006 at Cornell University, University of Cincinnati, Western Washington University, Linfield College and others. In May, 2005, he was the lead poet for the Washington Poets Association “Poetry Roadshow,“ and for 2005-2006 was Writer in Residence and Hallie Ford Chair of Creative Writing at Willamette University in Oregon. He has since retired to five rural acres outside Bellingham, Washington in the long shadow of Mt. Baker. In 2007 he won the Jeanne Lohmann Poetry Prize.
James Bertolino was born in Pence, Wisconsin (USA) in 1942. His grandfather and grandmother immigrated from the province of Torino in Italy, early in the 20th century. He is a widely published poet and prose writer, and his work has appeared in PLOUGHSHARES, POETRY, NOTRE DAME REVIEW, BELOIT POETRY JOURNAL, PRAIRIE SCHOONER, INDIANA REVIEW, WISCONSIN REVIEW, NEW MEXICO QUARTERLY, FLORIDA QUARTERLY and many other magazines. His poetry has been reprinted internationally in anthologies from India, Italy, Great Britain and the U.S., including POETI ITALO-AMERICANI, edited by Ferdinando Alfonsi, 1985, Antonio Carello Editore in Italy, and CENTURY: 100 MAJOR MODERN POETS, published in England. Nine volumes have issued from such publishers as Copper Canyon Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, New Rivers Press, the Quarterly Review of Literature Award Series at Princeton University and Egress Studio Press, which released his POCKET ANIMALS: 60 POEMS in 2002.
His work has been featured in the U.S. on National Public Radio’s “Theme & Variations: Music and World Literature” and on Public Radio programs in Seattle and Portland. His poetry collaborations with Anita Boyle have been gathered in chapbooks titled TAVERN WRITINGS, PUB PROCEEDINGS and BAR EXAMS, as well as in the anthology SAINTS OF HYSTERIA: A HALF-CENTURY OF COLLABORATIVE AMERICAN POETRYS, 2007, Soft Skull Press.
Bertolino received a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Cornell University in 1973, and was a professor of literature and creative writing from 1973 to 2006 at Cornell University, University of Cincinnati, Western Washington University, Linfield College and others. In May, 2005, he was the lead poet for the Washington Poets Association “Poetry Roadshow,“ and for 2005-2006 was Writer in Residence and Hallie Ford Chair of Creative Writing at Willamette University in Oregon. He has since retired to five rural acres outside Bellingham, Washington in the long shadow of Mt. Baker. In 2007 he won the Jeanne Lohmann Poetry Prize.
