POETRY ABOUT MENOPAUSE AND OLDER WOMEN by Stefania Lucchetti
Foto: Stefania Lucchetti October and Menopause Awareness October is the month dedicated to menopause awareness, a topic that is still rarely discussed and often approached with discomfort. Menopause is a passage that many women experience in silence, caught between shame and confusion, as if the changing body were a boundary to be hidden. Yet it […]
“Milano ” and “Rome in November” – two contemporary poems
Rome in NovemberMassimiliano Giannocco translated by Stefania Lucchetti from the poetry collection Quando il mare è mosso How beautiful is Rome in November,its limbs suspended between the morning hazeand the dim autumn sun,the sky’s shifting expressions impressedin patches of tears still half-asleep,upon the veined benches of the gardens.The foliage is a carpet of apparent death,God […]
The significance and aesthetics of cyberpunk
Cover photo: Stefania Lucchetti, in a cyberpunk noir with a retro mood Buy it on: Amazon US (English edition) AMAZON IT (Italian bilingual original version) Feltrinelli During the recording of a TV interview in Rome this September, the interviewer asked me why I chose the word cyberpunk instead of the more fashionable terms “AI” or “robotics.” […]
Poetry is cyberpunk (La poesia è cyberpunk) by Stefania Lucchetti
Cover photo: Stefania Lucchetti, photographed by Emma Terenzio Buy it on: Amazon US (English edition) AMAZON IT (Italian bilingual original version) Feltrinelli La poesia è cyberpunk – Poetry is Cyberpunk by Stefania Lucchetti reinvents the poetic language of the 21st century. Poetry is Cyberpunk is the English language edition of well loved Italian contemporary poet Stefania […]
Love and Chaos and A room of one’s own (Virginia Woolf)
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. Love and Chaos and a room of one’s own Love and chaos is a poem by Stefania Lucchetti included in Coffee Stains On My Books (English edition of […]
“Poetry is sensuality” by Italian contemporary poet Stefania Lucchetti
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. Why are we so afraid of sensuality? Why do we seek it, yet at the same time, shy away from it? Perhaps because, somewhere along […]
Afternoons of Suspended Love
Cover art: Adam and Eve, Gustav Klimt 1917 (Belvedere Museum, Vienna) Afternoons of Suspended Love, by Stefania Lucchetti is a bilingual (Italian and English side by side) poetic journey through the seasons of marital love – a collection which explores couple life in its deepest truth: made of everyday gestures, shared challenges, and an intimacy […]
The (no longer sufficient) principle of relevance
Photo: Stefania Lucchetti Read this essay in Italian/Leggi questo articolo in italiano (c) Stefania Lucchetti. All rights reserved. This article can be quoted only referencing the author and the publications it refers to, indicated below. Extracts from: Stefania Lucchetti (2026) – DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP: Language, Ethics, and Identity in Cyberspace Stefania Lucchetti (2023) – VIRTUAL TEAMS: […]
“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 […]