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 […]
Women Breaking Through Leadership – Anniversary

Sign up to read my blog regularly in your inbox or in the Substack app Photo: Book launch of Women Breaking Through Leadership, 8 March 2012, Hong Kong Read this blog in Italian/Leggilo in italiano “Eve Toils in the Shadows [..] She opens her computer in doctors’ waiting rooms, in the lively corridors of sports […]
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 New Voice of Italian Contemporary Poetry: Stefania Lucchetti

Article on New York Insider, 12 February 2025 The New Voice of Italian Contemporary Poetry: Stefania Lucchetti – New York Insider
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 […]