Vittorio Carli teaches film, literature, and humanities at Moraine Valley Community College and Richard J. Daley College. He also freelances for less than impressive financial incentives. He spends half his time in danger (in Little Village) and the other in boredom (in Oak Lawn).
His first collection of poetry entitled A Passion for Apathy was published by The Press of the Third Mind in 2013 and a sequel may be coming out in the next year.
He hosts a monthly poetry show at the art colony at 2630 W Fletcher (off Rockwell and Belmont) on the second Saturday of each month from 7-9 p.m.Featuring poetry, spoken word, stand-up, performance art, and music. Almost anything goes! No entrance fee.
He is an unmarried, childless bookaholic, and has never been to prison.
A letter by him was recently published by the Chicago Tribune and it can be viewed at http://www.artinterviews.org/my-letter-to-the-chicago-tribune/.
His film and art reviews have appeared on www.reelmoviecritic.com (no longer online), chicagopoetry.com and in the publications: Dialogue, Venus, Chicago Artist’s News, The Daily Herald, The Star Newspapers, Tunnel Rat, and Letter eX.
His poems have been published in The Chosen Few, Best of Chicago Poetry, Online! the Chicago Poetry Renaissance, Café Review, Rambunctious Review, Polvo, The American Dissident, Dissent, Struggle: The Journal of Revolutionary Literature, Mind in Motion, Alphabeat Press, Alternative Press, Poems of the World, Religious Humanism, The World Salad Anthology, and The Anti Mensch.
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