George Bacovia (1881-1957) and Dimitrie Stelaru (1917-1971) represent two generations in the long line of Romanian Francophile Symbolists. Although both Bacovia and Stelaru took inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe and the French Symbolists and were also touched by early-Expressionism, the...

Arrigo Lora-Totino (1928-2016) was an artist and poet from Turin, Italy. He is considered one of the key figures in Italian sound poetry. Lora-Totino’s first experiments with poetry stem from the late 1950s-early 1960s, a period in which he also founded his first magazine dedicated to...

If you only know one photograph of the Beat Generation, you know this one. It’s the single most famous picture of Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Kerouac. But who took it, when, where, and why? What are its secrets, and how can it be a crime scene? Whatever you think you know is almost...

Abracadabra was an international magazine of poetry and arts that ran for 5 issues from 1977 to 1981. Editor-in-chief of the short-lived magazine was Marcello Angioni (1939), a Sardinian who had moved to Luxembourg and from there published Abracadabra with co-editors poet, artist and...