Name Joel Allegretti | Role Poet | |
Books The Plague Psalms, Thrum: Poems, Europa/Nippon/New York: Poems/Not‑Poems, The Body in Equipois, Father Silicon | ||
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Joel Allegretti is an American poet and fiction writer. His second book of poetry, Father Silicon, was selected by the Kansas City Star as one of 100 Noteworthy Books of 2006. He is the editor of Rabbit Ears: TV Poems (NYQ Books, 2015), the first anthology of poetry about the mass medium.
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He has published his poems in The New York Quarterly, Barrow Street, Harpur Palate, Smartish Pace, and many other national journals, as well as in journals published in Canada, the United Kingdom, Belgium, and India.
Allegretti's fiction has appeared in The MacGuffin, The Adroit Journal, Thrice Fiction, and The Nassau Review, among others. His performance texts and theater pieces have been staged at La MaMa, Medicine Show Theatre, the Cornelia Street Cafe, and the Sidewalk Cafe, all in New York. He was co-editor of "Dear Yoko: A Tribute to Yoko Ono," a special digital issue of Nerve Lantern, a journal of performance texts and writings about performance.
He is represented in more than two-dozen anthologies.
Allegretti wrote the texts for three song cycles by Frank Ezra Levy, whose work is released on Naxos American Classics. He is a member of the Academy of American Poets and ASCAP.