Ed Coletti is an American
poet
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and
painter
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. His most recent full-length collection of poetry is ''The Problem With Breathing'' (Edwin E. Smith Publishing. 2015).
Life
Ed Coletti lives in
Sonoma County, CA where he founded and curated the
San Francisco Bay Area
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-wide SoCoCo reading series and the Poetry Azul series. He has also worked as a
vocational rehabilitation counselor and as a
business consultant
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.
Born in New York, Coletti moved to
Santa Rosa, California
Santa Rosa (Spanish language, Spanish for "Rose of Lima, Saint Rose") is a city in and the county seat of Sonoma County, California, Sonoma County, in the North Bay (San Francisco Bay Area), North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, Bay A ...
after serving in the
Vietnam War
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. He is a graduate of
Georgetown University
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and completed a Masters in Creative Writing under Robert Creeley at
San Francisco State University
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,
San Francisco
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. Later he obtained a second master's degree in Management at
Sonoma State University
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. He is the publisher of the small press ''Round Barn Press'' and writes for his
blogs
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''Ed Coletti's P3'' and ''No Money in Poetry''.
Besides his full-length collections and
chapbooks
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of poetry, Coletti's work has appeared in two
anthologies
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— ''Avanti Popolo'', James Tracy, ed. (Manic D Press), and ''An Anthology of Ars Poetica'', Jennifer Hill and Dan Waber, eds. (Paper Kite Press),
His work has appeared in the following journals: ''Light Year'' (Bits Press),
ZYZZYVA
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,
North American Review
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,
Brooklyn Rail
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, Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, ''divide'', (
University of Colorado
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), Blueline, Stymie Magazine, Big Bridge, Spillway Magazine, Orbis (
England
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), Jerry Jazz Musician, Tucumcari Literary Review, the Kickass Review, Parting Gifts Quadrant (
Australia
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), Green's Magazine, Gryphon, The Pedestal, Italian American, Cyclamen and Swords (
Israel
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), The New Verse News, and other journals and anthologies. He is indexed in Granger's ''American Poets''.
Coletti writes, “ There was a time when I almost completely gave up writing. This was during the years 1973-1987. Then I reclaimed my
soul
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and have written and published regularly again from 1987 to the present."
Bibliography
*''thawts : Selected Poems of Edward Coletti'', PoetWorks Press (August 1, 2000, 2d edition 2006),
*''Between Trellis and Glass'', dPress, 2006.
*''Bringing Home the Bones'', dPress, 2006.
*''Quiet Now'', Kapala Press, 2007.
*
Carlos', Round Barn Press, 2008.
*''Jazz Gods'', Round Barn Press, 2010.
*''When Hearts Outlive Minds''
Conflux Press 2011.
*''Germs Viruses & Catechisms'
Civil Defense Publications 2013.
*''The Problem With Breathing'
Edwin E. Smith Publishing 2015.
References
Sonoma County Writers Guide accessed December 15, 2005
No Money In Poetry*http://edcolettip3.blogspot.com/
Paintings*http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/2010_Art/Coletti/Coletti_Another_Bird.HTM
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Georgetown University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Poets from California
21st-century American poets
American male poets
21st-century American male writers