Antonello Borra

Antonello Borra teaches Italian at the University of Vermont. His books of poetry are Erbario lapidario (Fomite, 2024, with 53 illustrations by Marco Vacchetti), Fabbrica delle idee / Factory of Ideas (Fomite, 2019), Alfabestiario (Fomite, 2013 and Lietocolle, 2009), Alphabetabestiario (Fomite, 2011), Frammenti di tormenti (seconda parte) (Lietocolle, 2006), and Frammenti di tormenti (prima parte) (Longo, 2000). A selection from his bestiaries appeared in German translation with the title AlphabeTiere (Kern, 2015). He has published Italian translations of poetry from English (W.S. Merwin, Greg Delanty, Djuna Barnes, Gerry Murphy), German (Michael Krüger, Johannes Hösle), Spanish (José Watanabe, Roberto Sosa), and Catalan (Ramon Farrés, Cinta Massip). He is the author of Guittone d’Arezzo. Selected Poetry and Prose (University of Toronto Press, 2017). He has also written extensively on contemporary Italian poetry and is now translating works from his mother tongue, Piedmontese. His poems have appeared in many journals and magazines including “05401”, “Crocevia”, “Ecozon@”, “Gradiva”, “In forma di parole”, “Italian Poetry Review”, “L’immaginazione”, “Nuovi argomenti”, “Poesia”, and “Steve”.

Photo by Fabrizio Andreis