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Carmine Starnino is aCanadianpoet,essayist,educator andeditor.
He was born in 1970 inMontreal,Quebec, into anItalian heritage. His first poetry collectionThe New World (1997) was nominated for the 1997A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the 1997Gerald Lampert Award. His second collectionCredo (2000) won the 2001 Canadian Authors Associate Prize for Poetry and the 2001 David McKeen Award for Poetry. He has also writtenA Lover's Quarrel (2004), a book of essays onCanadian poetry, andWith English Subtitles (2004), a third collection of poems, which won aBressani Award and the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Starnino's fourth collection,This Way Out (2009), was nominated for aGovernor General's Literary Award for Poetry and, again, won theA.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Starnino went on to publishLazy Bastardism (2012), a collection of essays and reviews, andLeviathan (2016) a book of poems. His most recent book, published in 2020,Dirty Words: Selected Poems 1997-2016, was awarded the inauguralPier Giorgio Di Cicco Poetry Award, and was praised by the jury for having "expanded the English language by bringing Italian words into its matrix."
He is the editor of Signal Editions, the poetry imprint of Montreal-based Véhicule Press, and was formerly Editor-in-Chief ofMaisonneuve and Senior Editor ofReader's Digest Canada. Starnino left his post as Deputy Editor ofThe Walrus in 2019 to move back to Montreal, and currently serves as the magazine's Editor-in-Chief.
Starnino is well known for the provocative nature of his criticism and pointedness of his opinions, which have incited a variety of heated counter-criticisms from other poets andcritiques.[1]
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