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"""Anna Lombardo's Blackout holds a mirror of precision to the current horror of our dystopian reality. Her prescient words are a vital antidote to our current insatiable lust for bombs and destruction. ...consider how the hollow/ of this century is being drawn. She pleads to the air, to the sky, to whoever hears her gut-wrenching words; she pleads for the return of sanity, of love. Come back, bird of Minerva, bird of the night. / Can't you hear the children crying?-Ally Acker, American filmmaker, film historian, poet, and author of Surviving Desire, Waiting for the Beloved, and Some Help from the Dead ""Blackout indicates a caesura from which to start again, and from the first to the last word, it makes no concessions. It speaks to us of what is missing and of human hell on earth, but also of what is still possible to return to that human being who is trampled upon every day and in whom we would like, despite everything, to still believe.""-Fabia Ghenzovich, winner of the Guido Gozzano (2009), and the Charles Darwin Scientific Poetry Prize (2014)"

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"Anna Lombardo lives in Venice. Poet, translator and cultural activist. Degree from the C� Foscari University of Venice with a PhD on the marginalization of female poetry at Trinity College in Dublin. Bilingual poetic collections: Even the Fish Are Drunk (2002); No Alibi (2004); That Something Missing (2009); Con candide mani (2020); Con c�ndidas manos (2023). She has edited the following anthologies: There Are Who Believe in Dreams (2014); 15x15 photography meets poetry (2020); The Translation at the Covid Time (2021). Since 2020, she has edited the four annual issues of Quaderni della Palabra, which collect the works of the poets participating in the Festival Palabra en el Mundo. She is a frequent guest at national and international festivals. She collaborates with Global Right, for which she has curated six interviews with contemporary international poets. Various authors' critical and translation works include A. Lowell, J. Hirschman, J. Lussu, PP. Pasolini, Chi Trung e Matt Sedillo. Her poems have been translated into multiple languages and have been published in national and international journals and anthologies. Since 2009, she has been the artistic director of the FIP (International Poetry Festival) Palabra en el Mundo for Venice, which welcomes various national and international voices annually. She is among the founders of the International Poet's Net POP. Dr. Kaye Cederman lives in Northland, Aotearoa, New Zealand. Her art teachers include Selwyn Wilson, Ralph Hotere and Jayne Thomas. She has lectured in contemporary critical theory (Feminist, Baudrillard, Lacan). Her art explores human existential psychic and bodily reality in this hyper-industrial era; specifically utilising the ironic, abstract, and figurative. She has exhibited in Ireland, and Aotearoa. She mainly works with oil pastels and oil paint, on canvas. David A. Romero is a Mexican-American spoken word artist from Diamond Bar, CA. Romero is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of El Martillo Press. Romero is the author of My Name Is Romero (FlowerSong Press), a book reviewed by Gustavo Arellano (�Ask a Mexican!), Curtis Marez (University Babylon), and founding member of Ozomatli, Ulises Bella. Romero has received honorariums from nearly a hundred colleges and universities in thirty-four different states in the USA and has performed live in Mexico, Italy, and France. Romero's work has been published in literary magazines in the United States, Mexico, England, Scotland, and Canada. Romero has opened for Latin Grammy winning bands Ozomatli and La Santa Cecilia. Romero's work has been published in anthologies alongside poets laureate Joy Harjo, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Luis J. Rodriguez, Jack Hirschman, and Tongo Eisen-Martin. Romero has won the Uptown Slam at the historic Green Mill in Chicago; the birthplace of slam poetry. Romero offers a scholarship for high school seniors interested in spoken word and social justice: ""The Romero Scholarship for Excellence in Spoken Word."""

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