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Litterateur
November 2020
Doue'e
For me, one of the most important
legacies of the 1970’s was a belief
in the importance of activism and
working collectively. Over the
years I have tried to retain that
spirit and, with varying degrees of
success, and figure out how to
deploy it. In Italy, in 2012, 2013 and
2014 I have helped found and
organize the poetry marathons of
100 Thousand Poets for Change in
Bologna; later, with a small group
of poets I have helped put
together three anthologies of
poems written by hundreds of
poets on the migrations and
drownings in the Mediterranean
and as a world-wide phenomenon,
taking these anthologies, the
Pina at the door of the the Department poets and the activists into the
of performance art where she was doing schools. I have helped found and
her research for the dissertation on
Dario Fo in Bologna run two online literary and visual
arts journals, the Italian La
Macchina Sognante which was
started in 2015 and has currently
seven editors, and the English
language The Dreaming Machine
started in 2018, which I run by
myself. All of these initiatives
entail working with hundreds of
writers with the aim of helping
develop international networks of
writers and artists challenging the
world as it is.
