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Anthony Maulucci Poet, novelist, short story writer, painter, world literature reader.

Anthony Maulucci
Anthony Maulucci
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Member since: Dec, 2008
Last login: 03/21/2010
Last update : 03/21/2010
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About Me

  • Anthony S. Maulucci is an Italian American poet, novelist and painter. He worked in professional theatre and enjoyed a prominent career as a freelance writer before becoming a college professor of writing and literature. In 1989, he founded the Green Tiger Writers private workshops and in 1995 launched an independent press to bring out his first novel, The Discovery of Luminous Being, followed by Adriana’s Eyes and Other Stories, The Rosselli Cantata, Dear Dante, 100 Love Sonnets and Anxious Love.

amaulucci's Blog

  • The Role of the Writer in America

    March 21, 2010

    • In Western and Eastern European countries, as well as in Russia and many Latin American nations, the role of the literary writer is more clearly defined than in the US. Poets and novelists abroad take on the role of intellectual leaders, and as such they give serious thought to what they contribute to their culture and the effect their work will have on their society. For most American novelists ...
  • Some Literary Limericks

    March 17, 2010

    • There once was a man from the Bronxwho lived with two educated aunts.They made him read Nietzsche,he found them too preachy,and he left with a bad case of angst.There once was an artist from Albuquerque,whose paintings were terribly quirky.He was quite a joker,using umber and ochre,but the effect was always so murky.There once was a doctor named Nashwho would treat anyone in a flash,but healthy ...
  • Reading Dante in Mexico

    March 7, 2010

    • Last month I gave a talk on Dante’s Divine Comedy to a surprisingly enthusiastic group of people at the library in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. I say surprising because I hadn’t expected the interest in Dante’s work to be so intense. Needless to say I was delighted by both the large turnout and the close attention given to the poem. During my introduction and reading from The Inferno, ...
  • New England Neighbors

    March 4, 2010

    • Whenever I would ask a favorof my friendly next-door neighbor,he would scowl and reply,"Yeah, right. In a pig's eye." So one fine day I bought a pig's head.To give it a greater look of dreadI blackened it with a torchand put it on my neighbor's porch.  
  • What's Missing from Modern American Fiction?

    February 21, 2010

    • As an avid reader of world literature, I am repeatedly disappointed by the state of contemporary American fiction. My latest attempt to read a current novel by an American author turned into another act of frustration when I picked up Matthew Pearl’s The Dante Club and found to dismay that what I had hoped to be an engaging mix of mystery and literary history about the first American ...

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