“All my bosses and teachers said I couldn’t write. In 2002 I submitted a poem to a magazine and it got published.” In this edition of Writers Voices, Monica and Caroline talk to poet Salvatore Marici about his work and the life that inspires it. Reading from his latest book – Fermentations, we taste the fermented garlic of his Italian upbringing in the poem, Blemish Cleansing. he leads us through tastes, sights and sounds as he reads Summer Wane in Upper Mississippi Valley. We are, as he says, “living through the poem.” It is a delightful hour of conversation filled with insights and encouragement for writers everywhere.
‘It’s fun when you get to the point where you know you have a poem, (then) you apply the craft.”
“A man who works hard stinks, only to those who have nothing to do but smell.”
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My bio: Salvatore Marici’s poetry has appeared in Toasted Cheese, Descant, Spillway, Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland, Of Burgers & Barrooms a Main Street Rag anthology) and many others. In 2010, Marici was the Midwest Writing Center Poet in Resident. He has three books Mortals, Nature and their Spirits (chapbook), Swish Swirl & Sniff, and Fermentations (all Ice Cube Press). Marici served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala and he is a civil servant retiree as an agronomist.