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Gil Fagiani Gil Fagiani is a translator, essayist, short story writer, and poet. The settings of his writing range from suburban Connecticut, military college and Venice, Italy to Spanish Harlem, El Savador, Guatemala, Palermo, and Bronx Psychiatric Center. His passion is to give voice to those on the margins: the lumpen, the poor, alcoholics, drug addicts, mental patients and those lower paid workers that service stigmatized populations. This year three of his poems were published in Off the Cuffs: Poetry by and about the Police (edited by Jackie Sheller), and his short story "Choppers" was published in Skidrow Penthouse (spring, 2003). Gil's poem "A Sicilian in Potter's Field," won Honorable Mention in the 2003 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award and will be published in the Paterson Literary Review #33. |