Professor and Poet
Massimo Maggiari has contributed essays, interviews and reviews to various journals of Italian studies in Italy, in the United States and in South Africa researching on hermetic poets such as Alfonso Gatto and Leonardo Sinisgalli. He dedicated many years to the study of Arturo Onofri's poetic work and published the essay Cosmo e archetipi nella poesia di Arturo Onofri (Caramanica, 1998).
His first collection of poems is entitled Terre lontane/Lands Away (Campanotto, 1999) with an introduction by Giuliano Manacorda and afterword by Giuseppe Conte (Italo Alighiero Chiusano Award, Frascati 1999). His poems were published in Austria in The Poet's Voice, in South Africa in Italian Studies in South Africa, in the United States in Chelsea and The Paterson Literary Review, in Italy in Colophon e Fare anima and in the festival proceedings "The Waters of Hermes", "Altramarea", and the anthology "The Argonauts". His most recent book of poetry "Aurora Borealis" (Agorà, 2001), received great recognition in Italy and abroad. In 2001, he was the winner of an important poetry competition "La poesia incontra" (RAI 1) with a reading of poems dedicated to the explorer Roald Amundsen.