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Poet, activist, and new media artist Francesco Levato is the executive director of The Poetry Center of Chicago.
Levato is the author of Marginal State (Fractal Edge Press, 2006) and is a contributor to Witness:
Anthology of Poetry (Serengeti Press, 2004). His poetry has been published internationally in journals and anthologies, both in print and online, including The Progressive, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, Versal, and many others. His awards include two consecutive poetry fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center. His poetry-based
video artwork has been exhibited in galleries and featured at film festivals in New York, Chicago, and elsewhere.
Levato is a vocal advocate of using the arts as a form of political engagement
and social responsibility; he is founder of the Samizdat Series, a reading series
of socially engaged poetry, and is a founding editor of the online literary journal Ink & Ashes :: a journal of the senses. He has served as poetry editor or guest poetry
editor for LocusPoint, Newtopia, and others.
He maintains an active reading, film screening, and publication schedule both
in Chicago and abroad.
Books
- Marginal State (Fractal Edge Press, 2006)
- Witness: Anthology of Poetry (Serengeti Press), Blood and Oil; Kimono Tattoo
Journals
- After Hours
- Arabesques Review (Algeria)
- Big Tex[t]
- Cesium Magazine
- Citizen 32 (London)
- LUDWIG (Italy)
- Newtopia Magazine
- Out of Line
- Outsider Ink
- Shark Forum
- Poems Niederngasse
- Poets Against War
- Spire Magazine
- Spoken War
- Snow Monkey
- The Progressive
- Versal (Amsterdam)
- Voices in Wartime
- Word Slingers: VOX Café
- Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics
- Xcp: Streetnotes
- FLATFILE galleries: forthcoming, 2009
- Experiencing the War in Iraq. reconnectUS, 2008
- artXposium, 2007
- Mission Accomplished: Contemporary Political Art,
Digital Artist’s Space, 2007
- Peace Tower, Chicago Cultural Center, 2007
- Painting with Fire, Chen Gallery, 2007
- From Sham to Shame, Woman Made Gallery, 2007
- Peace & Justice Exhibit, Acme Artworks, 2006
- Guild Complex: Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic finalist
- Pushcart Prize nomination, An Act of Faith,
Marginal State (Fractal Edge Press, 2006)
- Vermont Studio Center, two consecutive poetry fellowships
- Art Against War
- Authors in Your Pocket: podcast
- The Café: featured poet series
- The Chicago Cultural Center: The Mysticism of Sufi Love Poetry
- The Chicago Humanities Festival: Peace & War: Facing Human Conflict
- The Chicago Literary Club: featured poet/speaker
- Columbia College: The Artist’s Role in Resistance
- The DvA Gallery: featured poet series
- Woman Made Gallery, From Sham to Shame: featured poet
- The Guild Complex at the Chopin Theater
- Harold Washington College: featured poet/speaker
- Lewis University: featured poet/speaker
- Midwest Literary Festival: Poetry as Social Engagement
- Myopic Reading Series
- Poetry Center of Chicago
- Poetry & it's Music International (WNUR 89.3, Chicago)
- Poets for Human Rights
- Poetry Out Loud: Reading and contest Judge
- Prosody Radio (WYEP 91.3 FM, Pittsburgh)
- RAW: Recorded Art Words
- Samizdat Series: readings of socially engaged poetry
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Visiting Artist
- Society of Professional Journalists: National Journalism Conference
- Speak Truth to Power: an evening of protest poetry
- Split This Rock Poetry Festival
- Vermont Studio Center: Resident Writers’ Reading
- Word Slingers Radio (88.7 FM WLUW, Chicago)
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