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The dead tree

margutte — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 06:52:10 +0000

OWEN LOWERY Had it always been prone and immense there between barbed wire strands and the cornfield, its roots feathering the wind? Not a leaf on it while it lived and was reborn with each visit. Husk and bark and…

Poetry and Creation: Three Poems from The Golden Chain

margutte — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 05:34:08 +0000

SARA RUSSELL The Golden Chain (self-published by the author, Venice, 1970; bilingual English-Italian edition: Florence: Paideia, 1998, reprinted in 2001) is a selection of poems written between 1963 and 1969. I helped my father prepare the first bilingual edition for publication…

A Forest of Trees

margutte — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 05:59:46 +0000

Thirty-eight years since its composition, Richard Berengarten’s Tree has been translated wholly or partly into at least eleven languages. And with nine translations, TREE is now inaugurated as a multilingual project in Margutte. Tree is published here in a number of…

100Thousand Poets for Change 2015

margutte — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 06:31:00 +0000

September 26, 2015 the global poetry event “100Thousand Poets for Change” (100 thousand Poets for Change) took place in more than eight hundred cities located in over one hundred countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Here in Mondovì local poets joined…

Readers’ contributions and greetings from Margutte

margutte — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 14:55:22 +0000

Here are some of the poetic contributions we have received. Happy New Year to all readers! From Mario Urbanet, France http://www.mario.urbanet.sitew.com EN GUISE DE VŒUX POUR 2014 le poète relut ad alte voce son dernier vers il eut la conviction…

I Figli di Mondovì

margutte — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 06:41:13 +0000

JOHN I. CLARKE These two boys who appear in the doorway of the Café Bertaina, scamper between tables like untrained pups before their sisters, older, wiser at eight and almost ten; they who let curls tumble to their shoulders and…

Creative Writing Workshop “Ascoltando Mondovì”

margutte — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 10:09:42 +0000

SILVIA PIO Why do we write? For many reasons: to follow an impulse to tell stories or to freeze an important moment on the page. The reasons are many and so are the occasions. The Creative Writing Workshop at the…

Feelings of Ceramic

margutte — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 13:44:47 +0000

SILVIA PIO. Abstract: An article about an art exhibition of Italian artists Angiuoni and Lolletti.