The (no longer sufficient) principle of relevance
Photo: Stefania Lucchetti Read this essay in Italian/Leggi questo articolo in italiano Sign up through the form to read my blog on the substack app or receive it by email. “It is a great tragedy to find yourself in a world where everything has been said, done, explored, exhibited.” Extract from “Mystery and meaning” Coffee Stains […]
“Encroachment” – Contemporary Poetry by Stefania Lucchetti
Photo: Stefania Lucchetti portrayed by Emma Terenzio Read this essay in Italian/Leggi questo articolo in italiano Sign up through the form to read my blog on the substack app or receive it by email. “What would you like me to sacrifice beyond thisExactly?Where can I conceal myself to occupy less spaceWhere can I retreat […]
“Words” – Contemporary Poetry by Stefania Lucchetti
Words, Original illustration by © Gianluca Biscalchin created for Stefania Lucchetti Read this essay in Italian/Leggi questo articolo in italiano Sign up to read my blog regularly in your inbox or in the Substack app “Why words – they ask/ why now” Excerpt from the poem “Words” included in the contemporary poetry collection Coffee […]
Without Time – Contemporary Poem by Stefania Lucchetti
Photo: Stefania Lucchetti portrait by Emma Terenzio Read this essay in Italian/Leggi questo articolo in italiano Sign up to read my blog regularly in your inbox or in the Substack app “There is a side of us which exists beyond time a part of the mind which dwells outside of time” Excerpt from the poem […]
Love is – contemporary poem by Stefania Lucchetti
“That Love is all there is/Is all we know of Love” (Emily Dickinson) Photo: The author with her husband Marcello (Vienna, 2024) Read in Italian/Leggi in italiano “Love is finding something when you thought it lost” Excerpt from the poem “Love is not” included in the contemporary poetry collection Coffee Stains on My Books, Stefania […]
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 […]
Awards winning Italian poet Stefania Lucchetti
Awards received in 2025 “La Perla del Tirreno Cefalu 2025” – 10 concorso internazionale di poesia e narrativa – President’s Award – for Macchie di caffè sui miei libri – April 2025 Award Poetry Of the Year, OTMA 2 – Mention of Honor for the poem Athena. February 2025 Premio Emozioni Poetiche 2025 –– OTMA 2- […]
