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Photo credit
Vera Paletta
Carmelo Militano
BIO
Biography

Carmelo Militano began his writing career as a freelance journalist and broadcaster for CBC Radio One in Winnipeg. Carmelo Militano is a poet, writer, editor, teacher, and radio broadcaster. Militano's poetry, fiction, and non-fiction explores the intersection and meeting of a dual consciousness -Italian & English Canadian- in history, classical myth, family, identity, and the erotic.  Carmelo Militano hosted and produced a weekly poetry( 2014-2017) show at CKUW FM 95.9 ( Winnipeg), called the P.I.New Poetry Show, where he interviewed poets and writers locally and from across Canada. Podcasts can be found at Programs and Archives, CKUW, P.I. New Poetry Show. Militano's poems, fiction, reviews and essays, and literary interviews have been published in a wide range of publications: Accenti, Black Scat Review, CV2, Erotic Magazine ( U.K.) Italian Canadiana,La Macchina Sognante(Italy), Lemon Hound, Northern Poetry Review, Quebec Poetry Review, Sangara(Italy), The Lonely Offices, The Pacific Rim Review of Books, The Toronto Quarterly, PopMatters, and Prairie Fire. Militano is a member of the League of Canadian Poets and The National Book Critics Circle( USA).                more info at his webpage:  carmelomilitano.com

ADDRESS
City: Winnipeg, Province/Territory: Manitoba
EMAIL
GENRE
Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction, Cultural Jounalism
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Archeologia Eros (poetry)
Publisher
Chat Noir Cafe Editions
Year
2021
Title
Catching Desire ( prose)
Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Year
2020
Title
Lost Aria (pr0se)
Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Year
2018
Title
The Stone Mason's Notebook ( poetry)
Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Year
2016
Title
Morning After You ( poetry)
Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Year
2014
Title
Sebastiano's Vine ( prose)
Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Year
2013
Title
The Fate of Olives ( prose)
Publisher
Olive Press
Year
2006
Title
The Patina of Melancholy
Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Year
2022
AWARDS
Awards
Name
F.G. Bressani Award ( Poetry)
Publication
Ariadne's Thread
Year
2004
Name
Short -listed Eileen McTavis Award
Publication
The Fate of Olives
Year
2oo7
Name
Short-listed F.G.Bressani award ( poetry)
Publication
Weather Reports ( chapbook)
Year
2012
Name
Short-listed Margaret Lawrence Fiction Prize
Publication
Sebastiano's Vine
Year
2014
Name
Short-listed Margaret Lawrence Fiction Prize
Publication
Lost Aria
Year
2018
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Programs & Interests
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