The World according to Poetry: Federica Nightingale

It’s with pleasure I present you the work of Federica Nightingale, an unknown treasure in the contemporary landscape of poetry. Some call her writing dark, others ephemere … I call it superb. I can only hope you will enjoy this as much as I did, maybe even more …

(The poems that were previously published here have been deleted at the author’s request.  Because there are comments, I am leaving the post up, sans poems.  D. Blaine)

BIO: I was born in Turin (Italy) in 1964. I actually live in the countryside, in a small village on the top of a hill. In 1993  I  first had my shortstory “La stanza di Giulia”  collected in an anthology and published by Mondadori, one of the most important editors in Italy. I actually write mostly poetry and  some of my poems are visible on the web where I write on several literary sites. My poems have been published in many anthologies and reviews in Italy and abroad. I have a literary blog  http://lastanzadinightingale.blogspot.com/ where I publish Italian and foreign authors. I personally translate from English to Italian. I work as an after- school assistant in a primary school and teach English to children.

Lena Vanelslander

swam many waters. History, Comparative Culture Analysis, Languages, Mythology, Literature, Poetry, too many to sum up. After a life of tribulations the turning point came in her mid twenties: she started to write actively poetry in English. Her melancholic and darkminded nature colour her poems to an individual signature in both time and space. Poems got published in the Stray Branch, Savage Manners, the Delinquent and The Sylvan Echo. Her first chapbook ‘Ma Chanson de Rien du Tout’ has been released in August this year. Her first book of poetry, written with Marilyn Campiz, Quills of Fire, will appear in November 2009. Currently she is contributing editor for Gloom Cupboard and Outsider Writers.

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