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Joel Allegretti is the author of two full-length collections from The Poet's Press: The Plague Psalms, which appeared in 2000 and is now in its third edition, and Father Silicon, selected by The Kansas City Star as one of 100 Noteworthy Books of 2006, a list that included novels by Thomas Pynchon and Cormac McCarthy. In 2010 Poets Wear Prada published his third collection, Thrum, a chapbook of poems, prose poems and brief poetic essays about musical instruments. Allegretti’s poems have appeared in Art/Life Limited Editions, Rattapallax, New York Quarterly, Descant, The Laurel Review, Margie, Confrontation, Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics, Xcp Cross-Cultural Poetics, Slipstream and many other journals, as well as on the Best American Poetry blog. He is represented in the anthology Chance of a Ghost (Helicon Nine Editions, 2005), which includes work by Billy Collins, Rita Dove and James Tate. His poem in that collection received an Honorable Mention in the 2006 edition of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror from St. Martin’s Press. His fiction has appeared in Think Journal, The Adroit Journal, autolycus: rogue literary journal and Petrichor Machine. Allegretti’s poetry was the basis of two song cycles by Frank Ezra Levy, who for decades served as cellist with the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra and whose symphonic work is available in the American Classics series on the Naxos label. The first, A Cycle by the Sea, had its world premiere in 2009 at Kean University in New Jersey. The second, Night Keeps Its Promise, had its first performance in 2011 in New York. Allegretti is a member of the Academy of American Poets and ASCAP. |
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