Alessandra Bava
@alessandrabava.bsky.social
Poet provocateur™, short fiction writer, translator & collagist ✂️. | Editor of poetry series HerKind (Ensemble). | Diane Seuss's Italian translator | WIP: Writing SF Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman's bio. | she/her
Tom Stoppard was an exceptional playwright and man. I was so lucky as to be his interpreter in 2012 here in Rome. (Photo source: Teatro di Roma)
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Tom Stoppard was an exceptional playwright and man. I was so lucky as to be his interpreter in 2012 here in Rome. (Photo source: Teatro di Roma)
I am reading FLUSH by Virginia Woolf. It is not the mere biography of a dog but, in truth, it is so much more, since Flush is poet Elizabeth Barrett (to be Browning)'s dog. This book is such a gem, a delight.
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 AM
I am reading FLUSH by Virginia Woolf. It is not the mere biography of a dog but, in truth, it is so much more, since Flush is poet Elizabeth Barrett (to be Browning)'s dog. This book is such a gem, a delight.
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
In honor of Patricia Smith, today's poem (#119 for the record) is the opening poem from her National Book Award for Poetry's winning collection, The Intentions of Thunder: "What's it's Like to Be a Black Girl (For Those of You Who Aren't)." Such a powerful poem.
November 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In honor of Patricia Smith, today's poem (#119 for the record) is the opening poem from her National Book Award for Poetry's winning collection, The Intentions of Thunder: "What's it's Like to Be a Black Girl (For Those of You Who Aren't)." Such a powerful poem.
Congratulations to Patricia Smith on winning the National Book Award for Poetry. So deserved!
In 2018 I had the pleasure of translating three of her poems in an Anthology I edited. I am truly thrilled.
The Anthology also included the future Pulitzer prize winners Diane Seuss and Natalie Diaz. ❤️
In 2018 I had the pleasure of translating three of her poems in an Anthology I edited. I am truly thrilled.
The Anthology also included the future Pulitzer prize winners Diane Seuss and Natalie Diaz. ❤️
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Congratulations to Patricia Smith on winning the National Book Award for Poetry. So deserved!
In 2018 I had the pleasure of translating three of her poems in an Anthology I edited. I am truly thrilled.
The Anthology also included the future Pulitzer prize winners Diane Seuss and Natalie Diaz. ❤️
In 2018 I had the pleasure of translating three of her poems in an Anthology I edited. I am truly thrilled.
The Anthology also included the future Pulitzer prize winners Diane Seuss and Natalie Diaz. ❤️
Today's poem, #115, is "Gallarus Oratory" by Seamus #Heaney. Many years ago I spent 3 weeks traveling troughout Ireland and this place, a stonework built by ancient masons, became an obsession. 25+ years later I wrote a poem, today, inspired by this very place.
November 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Today's poem, #115, is "Gallarus Oratory" by Seamus #Heaney. Many years ago I spent 3 weeks traveling troughout Ireland and this place, a stonework built by ancient masons, became an obsession. 25+ years later I wrote a poem, today, inspired by this very place.
I have lit my lantern. Seek your inner light, today. Winter is coming. Happy #Martinmas.
November 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I have lit my lantern. Seek your inner light, today. Winter is coming. Happy #Martinmas.
Arthur Rimbaud (20 Oct. 1854 - 10 Nov. 1891)
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Arthur Rimbaud (20 Oct. 1854 - 10 Nov. 1891)
Five years without our beautiful, beloved Ghibli. 💔
November 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Five years without our beautiful, beloved Ghibli. 💔
Aidan Turner as Valmont, Lesley Manville as the Marquise de Merteuil. Coming next year at the National Theatre. To die for!
November 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Aidan Turner as Valmont, Lesley Manville as the Marquise de Merteuil. Coming next year at the National Theatre. To die for!
I was rewatching "Dangerous Liasons" again last night and fell in love again with those extraordinary costumes.
November 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I was rewatching "Dangerous Liasons" again last night and fell in love again with those extraordinary costumes.
I am about to write my 100th poem of the year! A challenge begun last July together with @jcsmith0919.bsky.social. I am drawing inspiration by ORLAM by P.J. Harvey, a book she wrote in Dorset dialect and retranslated into English.
November 2, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I am about to write my 100th poem of the year! A challenge begun last July together with @jcsmith0919.bsky.social. I am drawing inspiration by ORLAM by P.J. Harvey, a book she wrote in Dorset dialect and retranslated into English.
October 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Poem 96 is Jeannine Hall Gailey's "Cassandra as Climate Scientist." Just wrote my daily poet inspired by this, I hope you'll be inspired to write one too.
October 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Poem 96 is Jeannine Hall Gailey's "Cassandra as Climate Scientist." Just wrote my daily poet inspired by this, I hope you'll be inspired to write one too.
Mimmo Jodice (1934-2025).
October 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Mimmo Jodice (1934-2025).
Two icons were born today. #DylanThomas #SylviaPlath
October 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Two icons were born today. #DylanThomas #SylviaPlath
The atmospheres of this book remind me some decadent poems by @dseuss.bsky.social, such as "Long long ago I used to smoke in bed." The Doll's Alphabet by Camilla #Grudova is such a treat. Not to mention the cover.
October 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The atmospheres of this book remind me some decadent poems by @dseuss.bsky.social, such as "Long long ago I used to smoke in bed." The Doll's Alphabet by Camilla #Grudova is such a treat. Not to mention the cover.
Artwork by Amy Friend.
October 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Artwork by Amy Friend.
For poem #90 I picked an ekphrastic poem by Victoria Chang inspired by Edward Hopper. Read the poem at the link here below. ⬇️
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
October 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
For poem #90 I picked an ekphrastic poem by Victoria Chang inspired by Edward Hopper. Read the poem at the link here below. ⬇️
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
So glad that Lázló #Krasznahorkai won the #Nobel Prize for Literature. I read his The Melancholy of Resistance during lockdown. It changed me. His work is enlightening.
October 10, 2025 at 7:07 AM
So glad that Lázló #Krasznahorkai won the #Nobel Prize for Literature. I read his The Melancholy of Resistance during lockdown. It changed me. His work is enlightening.