Paul Vangelisti is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, as well as being a noted translator from Italian. In 2024, his book of poems, Just in Time , appeared from Lithic Press in Colorado, while his most recent collaboration with artist William Xerra, Fragment Science , was published by Edizioni il verri in Milan in 2023. In 2015 he edited Amiri Baraka’s posthumous collected poems, S.O.S.: Poems, 1961-2014 , for Grove Press. In 2006, Lucia Re’s and his translation of Amelia Rosselli’s War Variations won both the Premio Flaiano in Italy and the PEN-USA Award. In 2010, his translation of Adriano Spatola’s The Position of Things: Collected Poems, 1961–1992 was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize. 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 (CONS). He lives in Pasadena and Bagnone, Italy.