Giuseppe Cavatorta
Born in Parma in 1964, Beppe Cavatorta lives in Tucson and teaches in the French and Italian Department at the University of Arizona. He holds an MA from the University of Virginia, and a PhD from UCLA. He has authored or edited several articles and volumes on poetics and his poetry, mostly in Italian, has been collected in 2 volumes both published in 2020: La stanza sgombra [The Emptied Stanza. Massa (Italy): Transeuropa] and Istantanee di un amor de lonh [Snapshots of a Love from Afar. Pordenone (Italy): Samuele Editore]. Some of his English poems have appeared in Bluing the Blade (Tempered Runes Press), The Closed Eye Open, VIA – Voices in Italian Americana, Ovunque siamo, Pummarola, and Harpy Hybrid Review.