a short biobiblio

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Marco Giovenale (1969) lives in Rome. He works in an antiquarian bookshop. Been an artshow promoter. Lived in Florence for a brief period. Degree thesis on Roberto Roversi’s recent poetry. His site: Slowforward (now WordPress; the period 2003-2006 hosted by Splinder). He founded (in 2003) and still edits the mag bina, and the irregular fascicle lettere grosse (born in Oct., 2009). He’s editor of: GAMMM, IEPI (International Exchange for Poetic Invention), Flux and The flux I share, Surrism/notitle, wee image, compostxt, recognitiones, Flux Usa, hotel stendhal, Poetry Kessel-lo, Accattone, «Sud». He’s “editor at large” (!) of the semi-annual tabloid of literature «OR». He collaborates with La camera verde (of Giovanni Andrea Semerano), and for that publisher he runs & edits Felix, experimental poetry chapbooks+readings series.

He writes reviews of poetry and literature for the newspaper «il manifesto» (+its blog, too). He has been editor of «Private», «Il Segnale», «Il Grandevetro», «Le Voci della Luna», TaKinG thE BriM_ TooK thE BrOoM, remix_runran, sAyingsometHing, Italianistica OnLine, Absolute poetry and Biagio Cepollaro E-dizioni.

In october 2005 he organized and directed the first section of the festival RomaPoesia: five reading sessions (Poesia ultima – Generazione 1968-78, Auditorium di Roma) and one workshop with Carla Subrizi and Gianfranco Baruchello (L’esperienza-divenire delle arti, Fondazione Baruchello: hence the book published in 2006). In 2008 he edited a book of selected poems and proses of Roberto Roversi: Tre poesie e alcune prose (Luca Sossella Editore).

Texts on magazines: «il verri», «Poesia», «Nuovi Argomenti», «Rendiconti», «Semicerchio», «Private», «l’immaginazione», «Versodove», «Lo Straniero», «Hebenon», «La clessidra», «Re:viste», «L’Area di Broca», «Exit», «Action Poétique», «Le Bateau Fantôme», «Journal of Italian Translation» [2-2, 2007: see the 2.37 Mb pdf file], «The | Black Economy», «Aufgabe», «Or», «Letterbox», «The New Review of Literature», «OEI», «Ossetia», «Il Segnale», «Il Grandevetro», «Le Voci della Luna», «Atelier»; as well as in newsletters and websites (such as Word for / word, Ekleksographia, Bollettario, Zswound, Coupremine, forward/text, P.F.S. Post, fhole, Shampoo (n.31), Coconut (n.11), Dusie (n.7), Blackbox, Starfish, Venereal kittens, sos-art.com (feb. 2008), Sous Rature (n.1), harriet (jan. 2009), Hit and run magazine, pganickz.livejournal.com, nannicagnone.net, Nazione indiana, L’Ulisse, L’Hermitage, rebstein, Nuove tendenze, Une autre poésie italienne, Compostxt, Carte nel vento).

Seven books of poems: Curvature (La camera verde, 2002), Il segno meno (Manni, 2003, as winner of the Renato Giorgi prize), Altre ombre (La camera verde, 2004), Double click (chapbook: Cantarena, 2005), Superficie della battaglia (little portfolio of 7 poems and 6 photos, La camera verde, 2006), A rhyme mirror (chapbook: Battello stampatore, 2007), Criterio dei vetri (Oèdipus, 2007), La casa esposta (Le Lettere, 2007), Soluzione della materia (La camera verde, 2009), Chalk (La camera verde, 2009: bilingual edition: texts in Italian with English translation). One e-book of proses: Endoglosse (pdf file, 293 Kb, 2004, Biagio Cepollaro E-dizioni); and a chapbook of new “endoglosse” published by Arcipelago: Numeri primi (Milan, 2006). Four translations from Baudelaire and some “sought poems”-excerpts from Les fleurs du mal make the book Spleen / Macchinazioni per fiori, with images by Alfredo Anzellini (La camera verde, 2007). Two “ever changing” webpages/opus with drafts and texts in English: Differx and Xdiffer. See also: Immag, Vispostock, Differx.it, Endoglosse.web. A selection of proses from Differx.it can be read as an online chapbook: Nanoconduttori (Sept., 2009). Artbook: Sibille asemantiche (La camera verde, 2008); and, under the name Differx: aweapon (ebook: Vugg Books, 2008).

A gunless tea, collection of 23 fragments and/or google/sought poems and proses is published for the 2007 Dusi/e-chap project (dusie.org), june 2007. At the same time, as a part of the wee chap project by Dusie, also the chapbook Detect is printed. It collects two English proses (with Italian translation by Alessia Folcio and Gherardo Bortolotti). In Feb. 2008 A gunless tea is also available online as a pdf file [2 Mb] — at dusie.org, issue 7 (see “vie et pli”).

With the poems of Ira, inazione, ira he’s among the winners of the 2009 Delfini prize.

His texts have been translated into French, English, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Dutch, Swedish. He’s among the authors included in Nono Quaderno italiano di poesia contemporanea (Marcos y Marcos, 2007). Presence in anthologies: Poesie dell’inizio del mondo (Premio Delfini 2009, edited by Nanni Balestrini and Paolo Caselli), Parola plurale. Sessantaquattro poeti italiani fra due secoli, by G. Alfano, A. Baldacci, C. Bello Minciacchi, A. Cortellessa, M. Manganelli, R. Scarpa, F. Zinelli, P. Zublena (Luca Sossella Editore, 2005); Il presente della poesia italiana, by C.Dentali and S.Salvi (Lietocolle, 2006); Corale (Le voci della luna, 2007); Nuovi poeti italiani, in «Nuova Corrente» (n.135, 2005), by Paolo Zublena; Vicino alle nubi sulla montagna crollata (by L.Ariano and E.Cerquiglini, Campanotto, 2008); Nella borsa del viandante (by Chiara De Luca, Fara Editore, 2009); and in the selection made by A.Raos for «Action Poétique» n.177 (2004, transl. by R.Sekiguchi). Five texts are in the 2006 anthology InVerse (John Cabot University, 2007), with English translation by A.Grego and D.Abeni. Poems and critical pieces have also been published in Aufgabe, #7, 2008, guest edited by Jennifer Scappettone for Litmus Press.

With the vispo installation CD-K (collab with Xavier Stern) he joins in the UberTrashung artshow+magazine: gallery Garage 103 (in Nice / France) from March 17th to May 12th 2007. The text, CDK, is published in March 2009 as a chapbook & e-book by Tir aux pigeons. The magazine and webzine “Chernovik” (directed by Alex Ocheretyansky) hosts in June 2007 two low-res vispo fragments by MG, and a series of frames from a long clip/videopoem by the artist Asya Nemchenok elaborating and including mp3 readings, manuscripts and texts from Il segno meno (Manni, Lecce 2003). Some new Asemic Sibyls in Nazione indiana and Sleepingfish, and in the Anthology Spidertangle edited by Miekal And (Xexoxial Editions, 2009). With a suite of photos (“légende : isomaisons”) he took part in the Runbook project (see the February fascicle, 2009).