Stephen Campiglio, a longtime Worcester arts organizer, and member of the former Noh Place Artists Cooperative, now makes his home in southern Worcester county and works in Continuing Education at Manchester Community College in Connecticut, where he founded and directed the
Mishi-maya-gat Spoken Word & Music Series, which ran for 12 years (presently on hiatus). Stephen has performed his poetry in a variety of musical collaborations, including with the spoken word bands,
Forbidden Poets, The Bluebottles, and
Radial Points. His poems and translations have recently appeared in
Aji Magazine, Chiron Review, City Works Journal, Journal of Italian Translation, Miramar, TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics, Tipton Poetry Journal, VIA: Voices in Italian Americana,and
The Worcester Review. Winner of the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize for a poem by Italian writer, Giuseppe Bonaviri (1924-2009), he has now completed a book-length manuscript of translations on the author,
The Ringing Bones: Selected Poems of Giuseppe Bonaviri. His new translation project is focused on the work of Italian poet, Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912), with co-translator and Pascoli scholar, Elena Borelli. Nominated for two Pushcart Prizes, Stephen has published two chapbooks,
Cross-Fluence (Soft Spur Press, Missoula, MT: 2012) available on Amazon), and
Verbal Clouds through Various Magritte Skies (Cy Gist Press, New Haven, CT: 2014) available through the publisher at
http://cygistpress.blogspot.com.
