Daniele Pantano
Daniele Pantano (born February 10, 1976) is a Swiss poet, artist, literary translator, critic, and editor. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of South Florida and is associate professor in Creative Writing at Lincoln University.
Daniele Pantano | |
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| Born | February 10, 1976 Langenthal, Bern, Switzerland |
| Occupation | Poet, literary translator, essayist, visual artist, academic |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Alma mater | BA Philosophy (2003), University of South Florida, MA Creative Writing (2005), University of South Florida |
| Genre | Poetry, prose, translation, essays, conceptual literature, noise poetry, art, installation |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Notable works | ORAKL, Dogs in Untended Fields, Ten Million and One Silences, Home for Difficult Children |
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He has taught at the University of South Florida, where he also served as Director of the Writing Center, and, as visiting poet-in-residence, at Florida Southern College. While at USF he edited the university magazine Saw Palm.
In 2008, he joined the staff of Edge Hill University, England, as Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Programme Leader of the BA Creative Writing. In 2012, he was promoted to Reader in Poetry and Literary Translation.
He has collaborated with the singer Dalia Donadio. In 2018 she performed a setting of Pantano's poetry in a preliminary round of the ZKB Jazz Prize in Zurich.
In February 2022 he was among more than a hundred writers who signed an open letter from PEN International to President Paul Kagame about the disappearance of the writer Innocent Bahati.
Pantano is the former American editor of Härter, a prominent German literary magazine that ceased publication in 2007; co-editor of em: a review of text and image (2009–201); publisher/faculty advisor of the Black Market Review; and translations editor of The Adirondack Review. He also edited Poems Niederngasse and The M.A.G.. Pantano curates The Abandoned Playground,, edits The Lincoln Review, and is founding Director of the Refugee Poetry Project and Co-Director of the International Refugee Poetry Network.
He was born in Langenthal, Switzerland, of Sicilian and German parentage. Pantano holds degrees in philosophy, literature, and creative writing. His poems have been translated into several languages, including Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, French, German, Italian, Kurdish, Slovenian, Persian, Russian, and Spanish.
In a 2010 review of his book The Oldest Hands in the World (New York: Black Lawrence Press, 2010), the Neue Zürcher Zeitung called Pantano "one of the most interesting and versatile English-language poets of his generation," while SJ Fowler, in an interview with the British 3:AM Magazine, introduces him as "[O]ne of the leading poets of central Europe."