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 I was born in 1963 in Cremona, northern Italy, where I still live and work as a private financial advisor.
I have long adopted English as my artistic language, which I have been learning completely as an autodidact since the early 1980's.
To date nearly 400 poems of mine have appeared in over 100 literary magazines worldwide, either on paper or online, as in recent years I have published 3 full collections. Some of my works have also been featured in anthologies (sometimes to raise funds for charities) along with those by more famous poets such as Rita Dove, Carol Ann Duffy, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Mario Petrucci, Jo Shapcott and John Hartley Williams, or by eminent figures such as the Dalai Lama.
Besides reading and writing poetry, I devote much of my spare time to various subjects, for example ancient history as regards humanities and modern physics and cosmology as regards sciences.
Moreover, I am an amateur but inveterate runner, with quite a heap of half-marathons, marathons and ultra-marathons run across my country and abroad.
In the past, as long as my job has allowed me to, I have also dealt with the visual arts, primarily drawing, painting and photography.
For more info, please contact me at alex.zan@alice.it
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MY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
- Main publications:
Antietam Review, Ascent, Avocet, Bardsong, Bathtub Gin, California Quarterly, Chiron Review, Comfusion, Concho River Review, Eclectica, First Class, The Iconoclast, Italian Americana, Main Street Rag, Möbius, Poesia, Poesy, Poetic Voices, Poetry Depth Quarterly, Potomac Review, Skyline Review, Tales Of The Talisman (formerly Hadrosaur Tales), Thought Magazine and Tipton Poetry Journal in the USA;
Aesthetica, Brindin Press, Dark Horizons, Dream Catcher, Focus, Interlude, The Journal, Neon Highway, The New Cauldron, The New Writer, Orbis, Other Poetry, Poetry Cornwall, Poetry Monthly, Poetry Nottingham, Pulsar and Trespass in the UK;
Flaming Arrows in Ireland;
Existere in Canada;
Kritya in India;
Carapace and New Contrast in South Africa;
Freexpression and Mattoid in Australia;
New Zealand Alpine Journal and Poetry New Zealand in New Zealand;
Poetry Salzburg Review in Austria;
Paris/Atlantic in France;
Arabesques in Algeria;
La Ballata, Isola Nera, Pick Wick, Poetry On The Lake Anthology & Journal, Private, Terra di confine and Universo in Italy. - Books:
Loose Sheets - collection published by Minerva Press (UK), 2000; second edition by UpFront Publishing (UK), 2002;
Small Press Verse & Poeticonjectures - collection published by Xlibris Corporation (USA), 2003;
33 Poesie - bilingual 'selected poems' published by Starrylink Editrice (ITA), 2004;
Straight Astray - collection published by Troubador Publishing (UK), 2005. - Anthologies:
The Book Of Hope - published by Beyond Borders (ICE), 2002;
The World Healing Book - published by Beyond Borders (ICE), 2002;
Listening To The Birth Of Crystals - published by The People's Poet (UK), 2003;
In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself, Vol. 5 - published by MW Enterprises (USA), 2004;
In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself, Vol. 6 - published by MW Enterprises (USA), 2005;
101 Poets for a Cornish Assembly - published by The Boho Press (UK), 2006;
Wild - published by Poetry On The Lake (ITA), 2007;
Alternatives To Surrender - published by Plain View Press (USA), 2007;
Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry - published by NM Cyprian Publishers (USA), 2008. - Visual arts:
Mr. Palmer, photograph used as the cover image of the Winter 2002/2003 issue of Poetry Review, Europe's leading poetry magazine, published in London since 1909;
more artworks featured in various magazines, including Aesthetica (UK), Branches (USA), California Quarterly (USA), Harlequin (UK), Orbis (UK), Poetry Monthly (UK) and Skyline Literary Magazine (USA).
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MY NEWS:
I am a featured poet (with an article, an interview and a sample poem) in the 2006 edition of Poet's Market, the reference guide for English-writing poets, edited by Nancy Breen and published by Writer's Digest Books (USA) for over two decades.
Moreover, I am gathering new poems (published in magazines from 2005 to date) for my fourth collection, which could possibly see the light in 2010 (enthusiast publishers wanted!).
Finally, I am the poetry editor of Private Photo Review, an international magazine of b/w photography and short writings (in English), based in France (see www.privatephotoreview.com), and Italy's Stanza Representative for the Poetry Society of London, probably the most important literary organization in Europe.
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MY RESIDENCE INFO:
City: Cremona
State/Country: Italy
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BOOKS PUBLISHED:
 Small Press Verse & Poeticonjectures
paperback, 156 pages
Xlibris Corporation (USA), 2003
ISBN 1401068308
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 Straight Astray
paperback, 104 pages
Troubador Publishing (UK), 2005
ISBN 1905237170
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