Poetry is a dwelling language: a pageant in Rome till 22 December

In Rome, till 22 December 2023, poetry is the protagonist with the Pageant Poetry, dwelling language – Intangible and group heritage, with readings, conferences, musical occasions and performances of assorted sorts, conceived and created by the Particular Superintendent of Rome, Daniela Porro: «The Capital is not only the historic middle: because of this, the Pageant of and about poetry is widespread in archaeological websites of the Superintendency, touching all of the materials of the town. From twentieth-century neighborhoods to historic suburbs and past, the place it has the ambition to convey you poetry, music and artwork. However along with the house, this system is unfold throughout the eras, from classical poetry to the authors of our time, to whom a photographic exhibition can be devoted.”

The mission and targets

For a while now, the Particular Superintendency of Rome has began a technique of disseminating tradition not solely inside the massive centres, however above all within the historic and concrete suburbs of the town. The promotion of cultural actions turns into a path of sharing with the territories in an effort to set off cognitive processes and social quite than city regeneration. The Demoethnoanthropology and Intangible Heritage useful space, coordinated by Alessio De Cristofaro, has undertaken an intercultural dialogue with the town, bringing to gentle components characterizing the historic identification of the contexts by processes of widespread development. «It’s on this context of concepts and robust will that the La Poesia, Lingua Viva Pageant is triggered, inserting poetry on the middle as a language, as an inventive expression, as an intangible heritage», declares De Cristofaro himself, curator of the mission.

Poetry, a dwelling language, is a widespread initiative not solely all through the town, but in addition on the internet: with the hashtag #lapoesialinguaviva anybody can ship brief video poems, their very own or these of others, to revive poetry to its anthropological centrality, and never solely literary. Particulars could be discovered on the web site and on the Fb web page of the Particular Superintendency.

The title Poetry, a dwelling language is borrowed from Arturo Martini’s guide Sculpture, a lifeless language: a reversal of that means as an instrument of data, a social and cultural glue that overcomes generational boundaries, one other essential sign that we intend to ship by dedication for this mission with a choral and inclusive soul, and for all these that can comply with.

The locations of the Pageant

The pageant has as its epicenter the Drugstore Museum and the Portuense Circuit, whose director, Alessio De Cristofaro, has curated the contents of the occasion which may also happen on the Pyramid of Gaius Cestius, within the Archaeological Space of ​​Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, on the Villa of Livia, on the Mausoleum of Sant’Elena, on the Temple of Minerva Medica, on the Arch of Malborghetto.
The Drugstore, whose entry is free, is without doubt one of the first pet-friendly Roman museums the place our four-legged buddies are additionally allowed entry.

The photographic exhibition

Central to this system is the photographic exhibition at Enzo Eric Toccaceli’s Drugstore Museum. Within the exhibition mission created advert hoc for the Particular Superintendence of Rome, thirty portraits of not dwelling Italian and overseas poets who characterised the second half of the 20th century and the 2000s have been recognized.
The portraits seem as dialogues of sunshine between the protagonists of the pictures and the creator of the photographs. The poets on show are: Alda Merini, Allen Ginsberg, Andrea Zanzotto, Attilio Bertolucci, Attilio Lolini, Biancamaria Frabotta, Claudio Lolli, Edoardo Sanguineti, Elio Pagliarani, Enzo Mazza, Franco Loi, Friederike Mayröcker, Giampiero Neri, Nanni Balestrini, Roberto Roversi , John Giorno, Jolanda Insana, Giovanna Sicari, Vito Riviello, Tonino Guerra, Giancarlo Majorino, Jack Hirschman, Lars Gustafsson, Luciano Erba, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Valentino Zeichen, Mario Luzi, Maria Luisa Spaziani and Patrizia Cavalli.

Occasions and critiques

Among the many quite a few occasions scheduled within the occasion, the Poetic Questionnaire, coordinated by Paola Caramadre, Sandra Giuliani and Gisella Blanco, is a chance to fulfill a few of the protagonists of the Roman scene, poets such because the winner of the Strega Poetry Prize Vivian Lamarque in dialogue with Maurizio Cucchi, Plinio Perilli, Maria Grazia Calandrone, Marco Palladini, Rosaria Lo Russo, Marco Giovenale, Gabriella Sica, Damiano Abeni, Moira Egan, Edith Bruck, Renato Minore, Silvano Agosti, Claudio Damiani, Alessandro Ceni, Annelisa Alleva, Elio Pecora and lots of different authoritative poets of our literary panorama. On the event of the Questionnaire to Edith Bruck, the presence of faculties in dialogue with the creator can be anticipated.

Additionally inside the Pageant, there will likely be occasions by which music and phrases will likely be in dialogue, such because the one, among the many many scheduled, on October twentieth at 7pm, on the Drugstore Museum, with the excursus between songwriting and poetry by Dario Punctual with the Moonlit Ground Duo, a method to mix the lyrics of Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology with the songs of De André, Bob Dylan and the Beatles. A night, accompanied by reside music and readings, which aspires to disclose how the road that separates apparently distant worlds is as skinny because the tip of a pen and the string of a guitar. The readings from the Spoon River Anthology, within the translation by Fernanda Pivano, will likely be edited by Paola Caramadre, Pierpaolo Cuna and Sandra Giuliani.
On the twenty first, once more on the Drugstore Museum, at 5.00 pm, there would be the recital-concert “I would love my soul to be gentle to you…” by and with Carlo Zarinelli on guitar and vocals, visitor Nicola Alesini on sax, curated by Poetry in music Undertaking in Progress. A by no means interrupted dialogue, a sharing path the place the music of the Phrases generates music for the Phrases. A brand new interpretation in music and track of poetic texts by Antonia Pozzi, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Elsa Morante, Primo Levi, Maria Luisa Spaziani, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Forough Farrokhzad, Vivian Lamarque, Emily Dickinson, Vincenzo Cardarelli, Giuseppe Conte, Samih Al-Qasim and a tribute to Claudio Lolli.

Poetic performances are deliberate within the two efficiency occasions curated by Sacha Piersanti in collaboration with Ludovica Bove and different artists.

A tribute to Gabriele Galloni, a poet who died prematurely in 2020 at simply twenty-five years outdated, curated by Irma Bacci and moderated by Filippo Golia, will happen on 28 October, and an occasion devoted to Ukraine between warfare and poetry with a reminiscence of the poet Victoria Amelina, curated by Marcello Tagliente with the Ukrainian affiliation CreAttiva APS, marked the inaugural weekend of the mission.

With Malacoda & CO., 9 authors of bizarre and anomalous poetry will likely be offered, briefly launched by Francesco Muzzioli, with texts aimed toward innovation, work on language and the displacement of widespread sense.

On November 18th on the Temple of Minerva Medica at 10.00 am, “A Piena Voce – From verse to verse, among the many imperial stones” curated by Esquilino Poesia. Introduced by Anita Napolitano and Anna Marras, with music by Lorenzo Massotti, performances by Marco Colletti, Letizia Leone, Terry Olivi, Marina Petrillo and Anita Napolitano.

To strengthen the connection between museums and faculties, on the Drugstore Museum, once more at 10.00, on November sixteenth, the Poetry Laboratory – Leisure Writing Dire, Fare, Baciare, Lettera, TestaMente, curated by Ileana Izzillo – will happen with the scholars.

There may be additionally house for literary criticism: an investigation into literary magazines edited by Tiziana Colusso and varied vital interventions together with a mirrored image on Rocco Scotellaro, whose centenary of his beginning happens, by Giancarla Babino and Rocco Ditella, one on Valentino Zeichen edited by Marta Zeichen and Giulio Ferroni, with readings by Sacha Piersanti, and a tribute to Giorgio Caproni by Sacha Piersanti with Ludovica Bove.

The occasion Ciotola del cielo il corpo – Studying and Spherical desk for the day towards violence towards girls, organized by Donne di Carta, is scheduled for November twenty fifth, at 5pm. Contributors: Alberto Leis of Maschile Plural, Tibisay Ambrosini of Cease rape, Carmen Carbonaro of Befree, Parisa Nazari activist of Lady Life Freedom and the poet Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto.

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In December, on Sunday morning it is possible for you to to take part within the Poet’s Breakfast with a few of right this moment’s protagonists of literary analysis resembling Nicola Bultrini, Edoardo Albinati, Simone De Biasio, Anna Segre, Raffaela Fazio, Guido Oldani, Lidia Riviello and others.

Throughout the Pageant, Radio Poetanza will curate Rime a Roma, a self-investigation into the locations of poetry, inviting poets to speak about their experiences. The complete program could be consulted and downloaded in pdf model on the web site of the Particular Superintendency of Rome, at
The catalog

The Poetry, dwelling language – Intangible and Group Heritage mission is enriched by a catalogue-book which collects the portraits of poets signed by Enzo Eric Toccaceli, i.e. the thirty poets exhibited within the exhibition who’re not dwelling and thirty-six different authors among the many most important in up to date poetry. Every face portrayed is accompanied by a poem and a biobibliography in an effort to supply contextualization to readers.
Along with poetic portraits, the catalog will supply an in-depth journey on poetry between the second half of the 20th century and the current day, with vital contributions by Francesco Muzzioli, Tiziana Colusso, Anatole Pierre Fuksas, Donato di Stasi, Andrea Ercolani. The catalog features a portrait of Enzo Eric Toccaceli signed by Jonathan Giustini and an essay on pictures by Simona Turco. {The catalogue}, as an expression of the analysis and valorisation of the intangible heritage of the town, hosts an essential writing by Marcello Teodonio devoted to Roman poetry. Closing {the catalogue}, the Contexts part features a deal with literary magazines edited by Tiziana Colusso and a pirate map of the various associations, collectives and spontaneous teams that discover poetry as a software for aggregation, developed by Sandra Giuliani and Paola Caramadre.
{The catalogue}, graphically created by Chiara Fenicia, is revealed by Scienze e Lettere.