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Francesco Levato is a poet, a translator of Italian poetry, and an experimental filmmaker. He received his MFA in Poetry from New England College and is currently working on his PhD in English Studies, Poetry, at Illinois State University. He is the founder and director of The Chicago School of Poetics (), served as Executive Director of The Poetry Center of Chicago () from 2007–2010, and currently serves as Cinépoetry Editor for Poetry International. () His first collection of poetry, Marginal State (Fractal Edge Press, 2006), was written while living in the Apennine Mountains of Central Italy, in a house once occupied by Spanish mercenaries during the fourteenth century. His book length documentary poem, War Rug (Plastique Press, 2009), was adapted into a poetry film that went on to win Official Selections from the Zebra Poetry Film Festival () in Berlin, Germany, and the Potenza International Film Festival (), in Potenza, Italy, and was featured at Anthology Film Archives in New York. His first book of translations of Italian poet Tiziano Fratus’ Creaturing was published by Marick Press in 2010, as was his own collection of documentary poems, Elegy for Dead Languages. Variations on Want, a poetry film based on his long poetic sequence of the same name was premiered at the Henry Miller Library, in Big Sur, California, in a collaborative performance with composer Philip Glass in 2011 (), and his e-book, Endless, Beautiful, Exact was published by Argotist e-books in 2011. Levato was born in Chicago, Illinois. == Awards == *2013 Ahsahta Chapbook Contest, “Variations on Want,” finalist, K Silem Mohammad, judge, 2013 () *NewFilmmakers at Anthology Film Archives, “War Rug,” official selection, 2010, NYC *Zebra Poetry Film Festival, “War Rug,” official selection, 2010, Berlin () *Potenza International Film Festival, “War Rug,” official selection, 2009 () 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Francesco Levato」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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