ART IN POETRY by Stefania Lucchetti
In the photo: Stefania Lucchetti at Teatro alla Scala, Milano Stefania Lucchetti’s poems about ART celebrate the essence of creativity as a transcendent energy connecting the inner world with the outer one. Capable of breaking down every barrier and translating emotions and thoughts into tangible and shareable forms, art in Stefania Lucchetti’s poetry is not […]
Poetry as an act of rebellion in the contemporary era – interview to award winning Italian contemporary poet Stefania Lucchetti
Cover photo: Italian contemporary author Stefania Lucchetti, in her office in Milano, Italy Buy it on: Amazon US (English edition) AMAZON IT (Italian bilingual original version) Feltrinelli Where does your inspiration come from? For me, writing is born as an intimate and necessary gesture: it is the attempt to hold on to what slips away, […]
Athena – contemporary poem by Stefania Lucchetti
Photo: Pallas Athena, G. Klimt,1898, Wien Museum (Vienna) Read this newsletter in Italian/Leggi questa newsletter in italiano Pallas Athena by Gustav Klimt is one of my favourite paintings, so much so that I have a print of it at home. Visiting it in Vienna (it is hosted at the Wien Museum, not at the more […]
Stefania Lucchetti Italian contemporary poet interviewed
This is a translation of the full interview published in Italian on: GRUPPO ALBATROS IL FILO PRESENTA: Macchie di caffè sui miei libri – Stefania Lucchetti – Il blog del Gruppo Albatros “Coffee Stains on My Books” is an evocative title, suggesting a strong connection between writing and everyday life. How did the idea for […]
The value of beauty and Aphrodite – by contemporary Italian poet Stefania Lucchetti
Photo: Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1485 circa (Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze) Read in Italian/Leggi in italiano ““I am the vessel of wonders and love Queen of Cups, ruling from above my hands sculpt dreams from desire’s clay igniting love’s fire in every heart’s way.” Excerpt from the poem “Aphrodite” included in the contemporary poetry collection Coffee Stains on My […]
Milano – poem by Stefania Lucchetti
Photo: Milano, Arco della pace, © Giuseppe Faraone – Oil on canvas of contemporary painter Giuseppe Faraone “You welcome me with an icy expression and turned shoulders, as if you did not care, and often you let me drown in my insignificance. But in staying with you and living you so many layers of you opened […]