HOPE IN POETRY by Stefania Lucchetti
In the photo: Stefania Lucchetti at Teatro alla Scala, Milano “There Is Nothing More Powerful Than Hope” Excerpt from the poem “Art, Faith and Hope”, Stefania Lucchetti, Coffee Stains On My Books, 2024 “Art, Faith and Hope” in Coffee Stains On My Books is a poetic reflection on the transformative power of hope and the way […]
ITALIAN CONTEMPORARY POETRY AWARDS won by Stefania Lucchetti
YEAR 2025 PRIZES for Macchie di caffè sui miei libri English edition: Coffee Stains on My Books First Prizes & Podium FIRST PRIZE for published poetry: Premio Publio Virgilio Marone FIRST PRIZE for published poetry: ““Premio Mino De Blasio 2025” ”Macchie di caffè sui miei libri awarded Best Poetry Work in the “Published […]
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 […]
“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 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 […]