Daniele Pantano

Last updated
Daniele Pantano
Born (1976-02-10) February 10, 1976 (age 48)
Langenthal, Bern, Switzerland
OccupationPoet, literary translator, essayist, visual artist, academic [1]
NationalitySwiss
Alma materBA Philosophy (2003), [2] University of South Florida,
MA Creative Writing (2005), [3] University of South Florida
GenrePoetry, prose, translation, essays, conceptual literature, noise poetry, art, installation
Years active1995–present
Notable worksORAKL, Dogs in Untended Fields, Ten Million and One Silences, Home for Difficult Children [ citation needed ]
Website
pantano.ch

Daniele Pantano (born February 10, 1976) [4] is a Swiss poet, artist, literary translator, critic, and editor. [5] He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of South Florida [3] and is associate professor in Creative Writing at Lincoln University. [6]

Contents

He has taught at the University of South Florida, where he also served as Director of the Writing Center, and, as visiting poet-in-residence, at Florida Southern College. While at USF he edited the university magazine Saw Palm. [7]

In 2008, he joined the staff of Edge Hill University, England, as Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Programme Leader of the BA Creative Writing. In 2012, he was promoted to Reader in Poetry and Literary Translation.

He has collaborated with the singer Dalia Donadio. [8] In 2018 she performed a setting of Pantano's poetry in a preliminary round of the ZKB Jazz Prize in Zurich. [9]

In February 2022 he was among more than a hundred writers who signed an open letter from PEN International to President Paul Kagame about the disappearance of the writer Innocent Bahati. [10]

Pantano is the former American editor of Härter, [11] a prominent German literary magazine that ceased publication in 2007; co-editor of em: a review of text and image (2009–201); [12] publisher/faculty advisor of the Black Market Review; [13] and translations editor of The Adirondack Review. He also edited Poems Niederngasse and The M.A.G.. Pantano curates The Abandoned Playground,, [14] edits The Lincoln Review, [15] and is founding Director of the Refugee Poetry Project and Co-Director of the International Refugee Poetry Network. [16]

He was born in Langenthal, Switzerland, of Sicilian and German parentage. [17] Pantano holds degrees in philosophy, literature, and creative writing. [18] His poems have been translated into several languages, [19] [20] [21] [22] including Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, French, German, Italian, Kurdish, Slovenian, Persian, Russian, and Spanish.

In a 2010 review of his book The Oldest Hands in the World (New York: Black Lawrence Press, 2010), the Neue Zürcher Zeitung called Pantano "one of the most interesting and versatile English-language poets of his generation," [23] while SJ Fowler, in an interview with the British 3:AM Magazine, introduces him as "[O]ne of the leading poets of central Europe." [24]

Publications

Pantano has translated the Swiss writers Robert Walser, [25] Hermann Burger, [26] and Friedrich Dürrenmatt, [27] as well as the Austrian poet Georg Trakl. [28]

Pantano's writings have been featured or are forthcoming in numerous journals and anthologies in Europe, Asia, and the United States, [29] including Absinthe: New European Writing, The Adirondack Review, ARCH, Asymptote, The Baltimore Review, Bayou Magazine, The Book Of Hopes And Dreams (Bluechrome 2006), Conjunctions,The Cortland Review, Evergreen Review , Dreginald , Das Magazin , Gradiva: International Journal of Italian Poetry, Guernica , Harper's Magazine , Hotel, Italian Americana , la revue de belles-lettres, Jacket, Lilliput Review, Literary Hub, The Mailer Review , Mayday Magazine, Modern Poetry in Translation, The Pedestal Magazine, Plume, Poetenladen, Poetry Daily, Poetry International , 32 Poems Magazine, Poetic Voices Without Borders 1&2 (Gival Press 2005, 2009), Poetry Salzburg Review , Poetry London , Style: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, and Stylistics, The Toronto Quarterly, Versal , Verse Daily, VLAK, The White Whale Review, 3:am Magazine , and The Wolf. [1]


Books

Translations

Forthcoming


Translations of Pantano


Visual Art and Installations

Pantano's visual art and installations have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Kunsthalle Kohta, Finland; University of Birmingham; Royal Holloway, University of London; Kingston University; Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival, Scotland; The Design Centre, John Moores University, Liverpool; and the etk art space, Switzerland. [30]


Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Georg Trakl</span> Austrian poet (1887–1914)

Georg Trakl was an Austrian poet and the brother of the pianist Grete Trakl. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists. He is perhaps best known for his poem "Grodek", which he wrote shortly before he died of a cocaine overdose.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sohrab Sepehri</span> Iranian poet and painter (1928–1980)

Sohrab Sepehri was a notable Iranian poet and painter. He is considered to be one of the five most famous Iranian poets who have practiced modern poetry alongside Nima Youshij, Ahmad Shamlou, Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, and Forough Farrokhzad. Sepehri's poems have been translated into several languages, including English, French, Spanish, Italian, Lithuanian and Kurdish.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rita Dove</span> American poet and author (born 1952)

Rita Frances Dove is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is the first African American to have been appointed since the position was created by an act of Congress in 1986 from the previous "consultant in poetry" position (1937–86). Dove also received an appointment as "special consultant in poetry" for the Library of Congress's bicentennial year from 1999 to 2000. Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1987, and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. Since 1989, she has been teaching at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she held the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English from 1993 to 2020; as of 2020, she holds the chair of Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert Walser</span> Swiss writer (1878–1956)

Robert Walser was a German-speaking Swiss writer. He additionally worked as a copyist, an inventor's assistant, a butler, and in various other low-paying trades. Despite marginal early success in his literary career, the popularity of his work gradually diminished over the second and third decades of the 20th century, making it increasingly difficult for him to support himself through writing. He eventually had a nervous breakdown and spent the remainder of his life in sanatoriums.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carolyn Forché</span> American poet, editor, professor, translator, and human rights advocate

Carolyn Forché is an American poet, editor, professor, translator, and human rights advocate. She has received many awards for her literary work.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yang Lian (poet)</span> Swiss-Chinese poet (born 1955)

Yang Lian is a Swiss-Chinese poet associated with the Misty Poets and also with the Searching for Roots school. He was born in Bern, Switzerland, in 1955 and raised in Beijing, where he attended primary school.

John Christopher Middleton was a British poet and translator, especially of German literature.

Derek Alexander Beaulieu is a Canadian poet, publisher and anthologist.

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hugo Loetscher</span> Swiss writer and essayist

Hugo Loetscher was a Swiss writer and essayist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paul Hoover (poet)</span> American poet and editor (born 1946)

Paul Hoover is an American poet and editor born in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mimi Khalvati</span> Iranian-born British poet (born 1944)

Mimi Khalvati is an Iranian-born British poet. She is the recipient of the King's Gold Medal for Poetry for 2023, awarded for "her outstanding talent and ability to draw on diverse cultural traditions – Iranian, English and American – to enrich British poetry".

Laura M. McCullough is an American poet and writer living in the state of New Jersey. McCullough is the author of seven published collections and is the founding editor of Mead: the Magazine of Literature and Libations. She was a finalist for the 2016 Miller Williams Poetry Prize.

Max Wickert is a German-American teacher, poet, translator and publisher. He is Professor of English Emeritus at the University at Buffalo.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ventseslav Konstantinov</span> Bulgarian writer and translator (1940–2019)

Ventseslav Konstantinov was a Bulgarian writer, aphorist and translator of German and English literature.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nguyen Do</span> Vietnamese American poet, translator and journalist

Nguyen Do (1959) is the pen name of Dos Nguyen, a Vietnamese American poet, editor, and translator.

Black Lawrence Press is an independent publishing company founded in upstate New York by Colleen Ryor. It was an imprint of Dzanc Books from 2008 to 2013. It hosts the Big Moose Prize for the novel, the Hudson Prize and the St. Lawrence Book Award. In addition to fiction and poetry, it also publishes French and German translations. The executive editor is Diane Goettel and the senior editor is Angela Leroux-Lindsey, who also manages The Adirondack Review.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Scott Hastie</span> British poet

Scott Hastie, is an author and poet. He was brought up and educated in Berkhamsted, prior to college studies in Brighton.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rowan Ricardo Phillips</span> American poet (born 1974)

Rowan Ricardo Phillips is an American poet, writer, editor, and translator. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at Stony Brook University, the poetry editor of The New Republic, and the editor of Princeton University Press' Princeton Series of Contemporary Poetry. He is President of the Board of the New York Institute for the Humanities.

Doris Mühringer was an Austrian poet, short story writer, and children's writer. She has received a number of awards, and her contributions to Austrian poetry, which both are considered particularly significant.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Daniele Pantano" . Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  2. "USF Alumni". University of South Florida. Archived from the original on 3 August 2021. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  3. 1 2 Daniel Pantano. "The Rapid Unexpected". University of South Florida. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  4. https://wolfbach-verlag.ch/pantano-daniele-m-45221.html
  5. Morrow, Bradford (2019). Nocturnals (Bard College Literary Journal). Red Hook, NY: Conjunctions. ISBN   9781504059305.
  6. "Staff Directory". University of Lincoln. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  7. Walker, Kevin (28 January 2007). "Credit Goes to Journal Staff". The Tampa Tribune. Tampa, Florida.
  8. "Poem Pot Plays Pantano". Wide Ear Records. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
  9. Merki, Christoph (2 May 2018). "Hier Sucht Niemand den Jazz-Superstar". Tages Anzeiger. Zürich.
  10. "OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME ON THE DISAPPEARANCE OF INNOCENT BAHATI". PEN International. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
  11. https://portal.dnb.de/opac/showFullRecord?currentResultId=daniele+and+pantano%26any&currentPosition=22
  12. https://www.everywritersresource.com/literarymagazines/em-a-review-of-text-and-image/
  13. https://www.nawe.co.uk/DB/university-magazine-resources/the-black-market-review.html
  14. https://www.theabandonedplayground.org
  15. https://www.lincolnreview.org/masthead
  16. https://www.refugeepoetry.org/people
  17. https://partisanhotel.co.uk/Daniel-Pantano
  18. https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/institutes/humanities/documents/hifall2022newsletter.web.pdf
  19. https://lecourrier.ch/2020/01/05/ecrire-la-ville/
  20. https://www.poetenladen.de/daniele-pantano.htm
  21. https://www.ludliteratura.si/branje/poezija/vzhodna-vas-s-tovarno/
  22. https://literratura.org/poetry/3256-evropeyskiy-poeticheskiy-festival-chast-i.html
  23. https://www.nzz.ch/staerkste_konzentrationen-ld.963244
  24. https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-83-daniele-pantano/
  25. Walser, Robert; Reidel, James; Pantano, Daniele (2015). Fairy Tales (Paperback). New York: New Directions. ISBN   9780811223980 . Retrieved 13 April 2024.
  26. https://www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/two-poems-hermann-burger/
  27. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/worldlanguages_pubs/28/
  28. "Stärkste Konzentrationen". Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 30 December 2010.
  29. https://www.pantano.ch/bio
  30. https://www.etkbooks.com/16-juli-2022-noise-grief-silence-daniele-pantano/


See also