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Alessandra Bava

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Poet provocateur™, short fiction writer, translator & collagist ✂️. | Editor of poetry series HerKind (Ensemble). | Diane Seuss's Italian translator | WIP: Writing SF Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman's bio. | she/her

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Lake George Reflection (1921-22)
by Georgia O'Keeffe

03.03.2026 21:12 👍 30 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Wassily Kandinsky

03.03.2026 21:16 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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How a trip to Monet's garden inspired Takashi Murakami's new show in L.A. Japanese master Takashi Murakami took inspiration from a trip to Monet's Giverny for his L.A. solo show at the Perrotin, which features 24 new paintings that explore the link between Impressionism and...

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

21.02.2026 06:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Poem #13 is by beloved Julio Cortázar, translated by Stephen Kessler, excellent poet and translator as well as a student of Jack Hirschman at UCLA in the 60s. I hope it inspires you to write a poem of your own.

13.01.2026 05:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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2020 Academy of American Poets Prize On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin

Here’s her prize-winning poem, if anyone’s interested - it’s a gut punch ❤️

poets.org/2020-on-lear...

08.01.2026 07:11 👍 297 🔁 87 💬 5 📌 6

Write a poem today for her.

Fill it with rage.

Fill it with defiance.

Fill it with grief.

There will never be enough words, but a poem can hold it somehow. A paradox, a fold in time, a miracle of expression.

Write a poem today.

For her.

08.01.2026 13:02 👍 114 🔁 26 💬 0 📌 2
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...nessun fiore è nato
è inverno, anima,
è inverno.

Antonia Pozzi

09.01.2026 16:35 👍 257 🔁 48 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy New Year, everyone! Here is the 1st poem of the year. Looking forward to more poeming. Wrote about 160+ poems in 2025.

01.01.2026 21:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy New Year to me! I'll ask Odin to teach me a trick or two. 🙃

01.01.2026 21:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Artistic #tarots by Ozge Sahin that my friend Matteo got me as a gift. I love them. Perfect to celebrate our tarots-inspired book coming soon. 🙂

01.01.2026 21:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

2025 was a hard year, but it came with some gifts:
1. My first Pushcart nomination."
2. My first acceptance by Beloit Poetry Journal for a poem in translation.
3. The signature of a contract for the publication of a mosaic novel inspired by the Tarots that I wrote with my friend Matteo.

01.01.2026 21:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy Birthday, Patti! 79 and still rocking. ❤️

#PattiSmith

30.12.2025 13:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Rilke. ❤️

29.12.2025 13:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My wonderful son sent me this book as a Xmas gift. I have always loved Patricia's poems. And, I admire how she is a master when writing long poems. I am so pleased to find "When the Burning Begins." Always a favorite. Grazie Edo! ❤️

29.12.2025 13:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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When I was a kid, my dad took this picture of me. For me this photo is the epitome of Christmas. Of the magic and wonder of Christmas. I hope you can still feel that Wonder. Happy Christmas to you all! ❤️

25.12.2025 07:22 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy Christmas from Rome!

24.12.2025 17:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
OUR MOST-SHARED
POEMS OF 2025

1. Blackberries, Margaret Atwood
2. Curl, Diane Seuss
3. Writing, Tomaz Salamun, translated by Brian Henry
4. Decreation, Gemma Gorga, translated by Sharon Dolin
5. I have to talk to myself differently now, Tongo Eisen-Martin

OUR MOST-SHARED POEMS OF 2025 1. Blackberries, Margaret Atwood 2. Curl, Diane Seuss 3. Writing, Tomaz Salamun, translated by Brian Henry 4. Decreation, Gemma Gorga, translated by Sharon Dolin 5. I have to talk to myself differently now, Tongo Eisen-Martin

A repost from Griffin Poetry.
#poetry

23.12.2025 23:11 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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It Takes Only Five Paintings to See Helen Frankenthaler’s Genius In a small show at MOMA, Frankenthaler seems to make paint its own living force, untouched by the hand of an artist.

“Helen Frankenthaler: A Grand Sweep,” at the Museum of Modern Art, is a masterpieces-only spritz of an exhibition. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

24.12.2025 01:30 👍 40 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

Love this!

24.12.2025 16:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘tis the season

24.12.2025 11:18 👍 20 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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#HappyChristmas
#AndyWarhol

24.12.2025 15:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy B-day Chet.

Chet Baker playing Time After Time.

23.12.2025 17:16 👍 38 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 0
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Poem #152, for this Christmas Eve, is by Louise Glück. It is named "Pietà." A beautiful poem that inspired me to write a #Christmas poem.

24.12.2025 15:03 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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My friend Matteo and I have signed a contract for our first mosaic novel. It is a book based on the Tarots' Major Arcana, set in Testaccio, a beloved district of Rome. I can't wait for this unconventional, pop book to be out in the world!

10.12.2025 20:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Woke up at 5:30. Today is the first anniversary of my dad's passing away. My first full year without him. I miss his smile, his joy, his sense of humor. A robin was singing close to my window early on. Hallowed be its tender song.

08.12.2025 12:19 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Aeolian Harp has nominated my poem "Tomboy" for a Pushcart Prize. It is my first Pushcart nomination and I am so very grateful to Aeolian Harp, Editor Ami Kaye and Connie Post for selecting this poem for publication!

04.12.2025 21:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Reversed Star. Time to reconnect with hope and practice self-care. Time for renewal.

01.12.2025 16:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The sting of rejections.

01.12.2025 15:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Truly so, Majda. Stoppard flew to Rome to support the Belarus Free Company. He politely refused to answer questions pertaining to his own work. A real champion of integrity.

29.11.2025 22:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tom Stoppard was an exceptional playwright and man. I was so lucky as to be his interpreter in 2012 here in Rome. (Photo source: Teatro di Roma)

29.11.2025 21:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0