Paul Vangelisti

Paul Vangelisti is the author of more than 30 books of poetry, as well as a noted translator from Italian. In 2020, his collection Motive and Opportunity was published by Shearsman Books in the United Kingdom, while in 2021 Liquid Prisoner appeared from Lithic Press in Colorado. In 2022, his collaboration with artist William Xerra, Fragment Science, was published by Edizioni il verri in Milan. In 2014, he edited Amiri Baraka’s posthumous collected poems, SOS: Poems 1961–2013, for Grove Press. Vangelisti lives in Pasadena.

Articles

Alive Beyond Life
Paul Vangelisti reviews Neeli Cherkovski’s “Selected Poems: 1959–2022.”
Paul VangelistiAug 8, 2024
- Poetry
A Farther Shore: On Three New Poetry Collections
Paul Vangelisti considers Susan Thackrey’s “Farther,” Joel Chace’s “Maths,” and Claire DeVoogd’s “Via.”
Paul VangelistiJan 22, 2024
- Poetry
Off-Off-Broadway West: On Guy Zimmerman’s “Outlaw Theatre”
Paul Vangelisti reviews Guy Zimmerman’s “Outlaw Theatre: Field Notes from the Padua Hills Playwrights Workshop and Festival.”
Paul VangelistiJul 3, 2023
- Memoir & Essay
Copiously: On Dolores Dorantes’s “Copy” and Kyle Harvey’s “Cosmographies”
Paul Vangelisti appreciates the poetic voyages in Kyle Harvey’s “Cosmographies” and Dolores Dorantes’s “Copy,” translated by Robin Myers.
Paul VangelistiSep 17, 2022
- Around the World
- Poetry
“An Alternative Literary History”: A Conversation with Kyle Schlesinger
The publisher of Cuneiform Press discusses his new book, “A Poetics of the Press,” a documentary history of small-press publishing.
Paul VangelistiMar 13, 2022
- Poetry
The City Speaks: Recent New York and Los Angeles Poetry
Paul VangelistiJun 13, 2021
Definitely Plural: Some Recent Artists’ Books
Paul VangelistiFeb 4, 2021
Rilke in LA: On Neeli Cherkovski’s “Hang on to the Yangtze River”
Paul VangelistiOct 16, 2020