Riccardo Frolloni

Riccardo Frolloni (b. 1993, Macerata, Italy) grew up in a small village in the Sibillini Mountains. He holds a degree in Italian Studies, Linguistics, and European Literary Cultures from the University of Bologna. He has published the poetry collections Corpo striato (Industria & Letteratura, 2021; Winner of the PordenoneLegge Prize – Young Poets Award; Versante Ripido Prize) and Amigdala (Nino Aragno Editore, 2024). Together with artist Giulio Zanet, he released the art book Claustro (Edizioni Gei, 2021).

 

In 2022, he participated as a guest poet at the Festival Internacional de Poesía de Rosario (Argentina) and at the project L’italiano dei Poeti at Vilnius University (Lithuania). He translated into Italian On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood by Canadian poet Richard Harrison ('roundmidnight edizioni, 2018) and Don't Practice Cannibalism, an anthology of works by Ron Padgett (Del Vecchio Editore, 2021). His Italian translation of Three Poems by British poet Hannah Sullivan is forthcoming.

 

He served as the director of the Contemporary Poetry Center at the University of Bologna and worked as a reader and assistant at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies. He contributes to the music magazine Impatto Sonoro and is the president and founder of Lo Spazio Letterario, a cultural association based in Bologna. Currently, he teaches Italian and Latin at high schools.