Paul Vangelisti is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, as well as being a noted translator from Italian. Most recently, Border Music was published by Talisman House in 2016. His translation of Adriano Spatola's The Position of Things: Collected Poems, 1961-1992 (Green Integer, 2008) was awarded the American Academy of American Poets for translation in 2010. From 1971-1982 he was co-editor, with John McBride, of the literary magazine Invisible City and, from 1993-2002, edited Ribot, the annual report of the College of Neglected Science. Currently, with Luigi Ballerini, he is editing a six-volume anthology of U.S. poetry from 1960 to the present, Nuova poesia americana, for Mondadori in Milan. Vangelisti was Founding Chair of the Graduate Writing program at Otis College of Art & Design, and now teaches in that program.