Luigi Ballerini divides his life between Milano and New York. He has taught modern and contemporary Italian Literature at New York University, University of California (Los Angeles) and Yale. His essays range from medieval and contemporary poetry, Futurism, and contemporary Italian sculpture (see his Apollo, figlio di Apelle, Marsilio, 2017) to Renaissance conviviality. His collected poems have been published by Mondadori in 2016. His new translation of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology was also published by Mondadori in 2016. His anthology Those Who from afar Look like Flies (an anthology of Italian Poetry from Pasolini to the present, co-edited by Beppe Cavatorta) is forthcoming from The University of Toronto Press. He is the author of CEPHALONIA (Rail Editions, 2016) and co-editor of I NOVISSIMI. POETRY FOR THE SIXTIES (Agincourt Press, 2017).