: 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. He has also published poetry chapbooks and writing guides for both fiction and poetry. Visit www.lorenzopress.com for further information. He holds an M.A. from Wesleyan University and is a recipient of the Rosengarten Award for Fiction (Harvard University) and the Jordan Davidson Poetry Prize (Barry College). He was born in Hartford, Connecticut and has lived in Boston, Montreal, Toronto, and New York City. He currently resides in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

My passion is ...

literature, art, music

I know too much about ...

unethical editors, book publishers and literary agents

My parents always told me ...

to be honest

My childhood ambition ...

to see the world

My favorite memory ...

family meals on the outdoor terrace

Why I write ...

to learn

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

poetry, the sunset, birdsong

My first job ...

delivering newspapers and working in my father's restaurant

My best moment ...

arriving in Paris

My inspiration ...

Leonardo DaVinci

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Fathers and sons

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MY FATHER LOVED TRAINS My father was a solitary man who didn't mind drinking alone. He tried to do the best he could to live in a world of his own. He had an ear for the heartbreaker blues, could burn them on guitar, but never danced a swoony waltz like the smoke from his slender cigar. He would have brothered Falstaff, both lovers of bread and ale, and matched him laugh for laugh, if only he'd read the tale. But the shelf he kept for books was small and cluttered with models, and the place reserved for me was no bigger than a bottle.

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