“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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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
Love poetry 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) Afternoons of Suspended Love is a book which tells a tale of love and passion in a long term marriage. It is a bilingual (Italian and English side by side text) […]