Rise Up Review
John L. Stanizzi is the author of the collections Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall, After the Bell, Hallalujah Time!, and High Tide – Ebb Tide. John’s poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, American Life in Poetry, The New York Quarterly, Tar River Poetry, Rattle, Passages North, The Spoon River Quarterly, Poet Lore, Hawk & Handsaw, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Rust+Moth, and many others. John’s work has also been translated into Italian and appeared in Italy’s El Ghibli, in the Journal of Italian Translations Bonafinni, and in Poetarium Silva. His translator is the poet, Angela D’Ambra. His next full-length collection, Chants, will appear in 2018, published by Cervena Barva Press. A former New England Poet of the Year, John has read at many venues throughout the northeast, including the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival. He teaches literature in an adjunct capacity at Manchester Community College in Manchester, CT and he lives with his wife, Carol, in Coventry. Visit www.johnlstanizzi.com for updates.
