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Ed Coletti is an Americanpoet andpainter. His most recent full-length collection of poetry isThe Problem With Breathing (Edwin E. Smith Publishing. 2015).
Ed Coletti lives inSonoma County, CA where he founded and curated theSan Francisco Bay Area-wide SoCoCo reading series and the Poetry Azul series. He has also worked as avocational rehabilitation counselor and as abusiness consultant.
Born in New York, Coletti moved toSanta Rosa, California after serving in theVietnam War. He is a graduate ofGeorgetown University and completed a Masters in Creative Writing under Robert Creeley atSan Francisco State University,San Francisco. Later he obtained a second master's degree in Management atSonoma State University. He is the publisher of the small pressRound Barn Press and writes for hisblogsEd Coletti's P3 andNo Money in Poetry.
Besides his full-length collections andchapbooks of poetry, Coletti's work has appeared in twoanthologies —Avanti Popolo, James Tracy, ed. (Manic D Press), andAn Anthology of Ars Poetica, Jennifer Hill and Dan Waber, eds. (Paper Kite Press),
His work has appeared in the following journals:Light Year (Bits Press),ZYZZYVA,North American Review,Brooklyn Rail, Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine,divide, (University of Colorado), Blueline, Stymie Magazine, Big Bridge, Spillway Magazine, Orbis (England), Jerry Jazz Musician, Tucumcari Literary Review, the Kickass Review, Parting Gifts Quadrant (Australia), Green's Magazine, Gryphon, The Pedestal, Italian American, Cyclamen and Swords (Israel), The New Verse News, and other journals and anthologies. He is indexed in Granger'sAmerican Poets.
Coletti writes, “ There was a time when I almost completely gave up writing. This was during the years 1973-1987. Then I reclaimed mysoul and have written and published regularly again from 1987 to the present."