About Professor Maggiari
Massimo Maggiari was born in Genova-Nervi in 1960 and currently lives in Charleston, South Carolina, where he teaches Italian language and literature and organizes festivals of Italian poetry at the College of Charleston.
He has contributed interviews, reviews, and essays on hermetic poets such as Alfonso Gatto, Leonardo Sinisgalli and Dino Campana to various journals of Italian studies in the United States and South Africa. He has studied for many years Arturo Onofri's poetic work and had his essay Cosmo e archetipi nella poesia di Arturo Onofri published by Caramanica in 1998.
He is the author of two books of poems: Terre Lontane/Lands Away (Introduction by G. Manacorda and Postscript by G. Conte, Campanotto, 1999) and Aurora Borealis (Introduction by T. Kemeny and Postscript by J. Marban, Agora, 2001). The first book received the Italo Alighiero Chiusano Award in Frascati, in 1999. The second book has received ample recognition in Italy and abroad. He was the winner of the 2001 edition of "La poesia incontra" (Rai 1) with a reading of poems dedicated to the explorer Roald Amundsen. Some of Professor Maggiari's poems have been published in Poetry Salzburg Review in Austria, Italian Studies in South Africa, in Chelsea and The Paterson Literary Review in the United States, and in Colophon and Fare Anima in Italy. Other poems have been included in The Argonauts (a poetry anthology) and in the conference proceedings Le Acque di Ermes/The Waters of Ermes and Altramarea. He has translated into English Egyptian and Finnish poets for the anthology Poetry in the World (Guanda, 2003) and translated into Italian poems by Robert Bly, Robinson Jeffers and Kathleen Raine.
Professor Maggiari contributes travel diaries and reviews of poetry readings to America Oggi, the Italian daily newspaper in New York.
AuroraBorealis Reviews
Read an Italian review of my newest book here.
Read an English review of my newest book here.