SILVIA PIO Once, a man lived in this town with his wife and three children. She was always in and out of the mental asylum. He was on his boat day in and day out and, when he got home…
Clio's Kingdom, The Showcase of Margutte
The Child
Calliope's Voice, Poetry
A poem for Ukraine in multiple translations
RICHARD BERENGARTEN I wrote this poem in 2020, immediately after hearing Olesya Zdorovetska’s extraordinary and beautiful renderings of poems by ten Ukrainian poets: Iryna Starovoyt, Olech Lysheha, Yury Izdryk, Marianna Kijanowska, Kateryna Babkina, Lyuba Yakimchuk, Yurii Andrukhovych, Halyna Kruk, and Serhiy…
The suitcase of Hermes, The Showcase of Margutte, Essays
“The 23 Days of the City of Alba”, between History and Literature
“Two thousand Italian partisans took the city of Alba on October 10, 1944, and two hundred lost it to the Fascists on November 2.” Beppe Fenoglio was among them, but he wrote this book in a scandalous (for the times)…
The Staff of Orpheus, The Showcase of Margutte, Music
Dylan’s Rolling Stone
SILVIA PIO (edited by) Like A Rolling Stone Bob Dylan 1965 “A rolling stone gathers no moss.” This saying refers to someone who is always travelling and changing jobs. These people have the advantage of having no responsibilities and cares, but…
Calliope's Voice, Poetry, The Albero Project
Lichen Song and Other Poems
ARTHUR SZE Lichen Song —Snow in the air you’ve seen a crust on the ceiling wood and never considered how I gather moisture when you step out of the shower you don’t care that I respire as you breathe for…
The Showcase of Margutte, Calliope's Voice, Poetry
A Unique and Independent Voice in Arabic Poetry
The Iraqi poet Salah Niazi (SILVIA PIO, edited by) DISCO Drumbeats smash into their echoes and shatter like the screams of broken trees. To and fro, as if the flames licks the wood first; Again lick the wood and again…
Platonic Diversions
Greetings from Mondovì: A few words
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE A few words—very few–as any attempt by me to make sense of or draw neat conclusions about 2021 seems presumptuous, futile, and redundant. It’s been a year, four seasons and 365 days, events unique and mundane, day…
Calliope's Voice, Poetry
Winter Solstice Poems
AGBRIGG WRITERS By four we’ve closed the shutters By four we’ve closed the shutters Light’s fled the skies Throughout the ailing autumn We watched it go sadly and painfully. Now blessed solstice dawns Not just the shortest day But life’s…
The Ambrosia of Dionysus, The Albero Project
Crann, a Symphonic Hymn to the Tree
CRANN, Creation, Transformation and Innovation. Some Notes on the Making of a Film-Work The source and matrix of Margutte’s Albero Project (2016) is Richard Berengarten’s poem Tree (1981). This is a symphonic hymn to the arboreal in every register. Each of…
The Staff of Orpheus, The Showcase of Margutte, Music
A Dream of Music in Mondovì
GABRIELLA MONGARDI. Abstract: an article about a music show in Mondovì, Piazza Maggiore (main square). .
Calliope's Voice, Poetry, The Albero Project
Poetry and Ecology: a panel discussion
On August 18 2021, the annual Festival of Poetry at Medellín hosted a panel on Poetry and Ecology, hosted by Gloria Chvatal. Participants were Native Canadian poet, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, co-founder of the Albero Project, English poet Richard Berengarten, and…
Calliope's Voice, Poetry, The Albero Project
Arboreal Poems from China’s Classic of Poetry
EDWARD L. SHAUGHNESSY The Classic of Poetry is the oldest collection of poetry from China, with 305 poems in total from the beginning of the Zhou dynasty (1045-256 BCE), the oldest from about 1000 BCE, the youngest from about 600…
The Showcase of Margutte, Poetry
In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights
SILVIA PIO This is a unique anthology, published in 2013 and sprung from the collaboration between the Human Rights Consortium and the Institute of English Studies, both from the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and the Keats House…
Calliope's Voice, Poetry, The Albero Project
Stages of the Fall
ALAN TRIST Leaves rustling, rustling dance in bond with wind a multitude on each tree in step yet separate Leaves falling, falling the whole airspace twirling, twirling thoughts in resonance refuting separation Leaves scurry, scurry back and forth across the…
The suitcase of Hermes, Literature
Why do the English love Keats so?
MULTIPLE AUTHORS The year 2021 is not just the anniversary of Dante’s death 700 years ago but also that of Keats 200 years ago. Fitting therefore to reflect on his life and poetry. The key question is why Keats holds…