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Look What I Did About Your Silence is a multilingual anthology compiling contemporary poetry from the United States and Europe addressing the many ways poets contemplate and respond to the concept of silence: divine and interpersonal silences; as well as the silences in public spaces that allow for everyday injustices and great atrocities. Edited by Matt Sedillo, Edoardo Olmi, gábor g.gyukics and Loris Ferri. Cover art by Alessandro Giampaoli. Look What I Did About Your Silence features poems by Lorna Dee Cervantes, Luis J. Rodriguez, Tongo Eisen-Martin, gábor g.gyukics, Loris Ferri, Edward Vidaurre, Matt Sedillo, Adam Feinstein, Lynne Thompson, Ewa Chrusciel, Alyesha Wise, Natasha Sardzoska, Yazmin Monet Watkins, Károly Bari, Edoardo Olmi, Cory ""Besskepp"" Cofer, Rich Ferguson, Susan Hayden, Silvia Rosa, Erzsébet Tóth, Raffi Joe Wartanian, Angelo Mazzei ""Di Poggio,"" Roland Orcsik, Ludovica Lanini, Dafne Rossi, Ceasar K. Avelar, Iris De Anda, Natalie Sierra, Margaret Elysia Garcia, Vanessa Torres-Mayorga, Ellen Webre, Solomon Rino, Bernadette McComish, Frankie Hernandez and David A. Romero. Look What I Did About Your Silence features poems in English, Italian, Hungarian, and Macedonian.

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Matt Sedillo has been described as the ""best political poet in America"" as well as ""the poet laureate of the struggle."" His work has drawn comparisons in print to Bertolt Brecht, Roque Dalton, Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, Carl Sandburg, and various other legends of the past. Sedillo was the recipient of the 2017 Joe Hill Labor Poetry award, a panelist at the 2020 Texas book festival, a participant in the 2012 San Francisco International Poetry Festival, the 2022 Elba Poetry Festival, and the recipient of the 2022 Dante's Laurel. Sedillo has appeared on CSPAN and has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Axios, the Associated Press among other publications. Sedillo has spoken at Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba, at numerous conferences and forums such as the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, the National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education, the National Association of Chicana/Chicano Studies, the Left Forum, the US Social Forum, and at over a hundred universities and colleges, including the University of Cambridge, among many others. Matt Sedillo is the author of Mowing Leaves of Grass (FlowerSong Press, 2019) and City on the Second Floor (FlowerSong Press, 2022). Both of which are taught at universities throughout the country. Sedillo is the current literary director of The Mexican Cultural Institute of Los Angeles. Edoardo Olmi was born in Florence in 1984. He published Il porcospino in pegaso (""The Porcupine into Pegasus"", 2010), R: exist-stance (2017), Stagioni scalene (""Scalene seasons"", 2021) and the anthological collection Poesie scelte (2003-2021) (""Selected poems (2003-2021)"", 2023). He won the third prize of the 2011 Carver, the 2017 Nabokov Prize, the 2021 Il Delfino Prize and was a finalist in the fifth edition of the Prato Poesia Prize. He was included in the census of Italian poets between 20 and 40 years old, carried out by pordenonelegge.it and is among the organizers of the Elba Poetry Festival. His texts have appeared - among others - on the blogs of La macchina sognante, Inverso, El Ghibli and Poesia del nostro tempo. They have been translated into English for the magazines Solstice, The Antonym and for Neke, The New Zealand Journal of Translation Studies of the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and into Romanian for the Tribuna magazine. He is currently the editor, together with Marco Incardona, of the Affluenti editorial series for Edizioni Ensemble. gábor g. gyukics (b.1958) Hungarian-American poet (jazz-poet), translator, author of 11 books of poetry in five languages, 1 book of prose and 19 books of translations including: átlátszó oroszlán [Transparent Lion] selected poetry of Attila József in English published in 2006 by Green Integer, an anthology of North American Indigenous poets in Hungarian published in 2015 and a Contemporary Hungarian Poetry Anthology in English titled They'll be Good for Seed published by White Pine Press in 2021. He was honored with the Hungarian Beat Poet Laureate Lifetime award in September 2020 by the National Beat Poetry Foundation. His latest American collection, detoxification of the body was published by El Martillo Press in 2024.

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