Franca Mancinelli was born in Fano, Italy, in 1981. Her first two books of poetry, Mala kruna(Manni, 2007) and Pasta madre(Nino Aragno, 2013), were awarded several prizes in Italy. In 2018 they were reprinted as A un'ora di sonno da qui, by Italic Pequod. Her work was featured in various anthologies, including Nuovi poeti italiani 6(Einaudi, 2012), and Tredicesimoquaderno italiano di poesia contemporanea(Marcos y Marcos, 2017), curated by Franco Buffoni. A collection of her prose poems, Libretto di transito,was published by Amos Edizioni in 2018, and translated in English in the same year by John Taylor, as The Little Book of Passage (The Bitter Oleander Press, Fayetteville, New York 2018). Her writing has been translated also into Spanish, Arabic, French, and Slovenian. As a critic, she contributes to Poesia(Crocetti), Nuovi argomenti online,and to other literary journals. She is an editor for the literary review Smerilliana, Argo-annuario di poesia, and the blog Interno poesia.

Other poems by Franca Mancinelli in Verse Daily:
December 21, 2018:   "[They're wandering among the rooms...]" "They're wandering among the rooms of a house where it..."

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Other poems on the web by Franca Mancinelli:
Seven poems
from the sequence All the eyes that I have opened
"Out Of The Fire"
Forty poems
Five poems

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