SMC Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto read her poem at the Genoa International Poetry Festival’s virtual event. Parole Spalancate’s Poetry in sDreaming “[reaffirms] the strength of poetry as a tool for sharing, dialogue and creation… in this moment of suspended time and forced isolation in Italy…”
(The Genoa International Poetry Festival is Italy’s oldest poetry event. Yusef Komunyakaa, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Czeslaw Milosz, and Wole Soyinka were some of the festival’s participants.)