Born in New Orleans, Shane Michael Manieri holds an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. His honors include a Writing and Democracy fellowship from The New School University; a full-immersion linguistics grant from the University for Foreigners in Perugia, Italy, and a translation grant from the School of the Arts at Columbia University. His poems have appeared in 'Painted Bride Quarterly', 'Lambda Literary', and 'Vinyl Poetry' and 'Prose Journal'. Shane is currently translating poems by the 20th century Italian author, Dario Bellezza. Follow Shane on Instagram @redshelley
Unlike other contemporary poets, Trinidad is good at making campy realities, such as kitsch Hollywood cinema, sound confessional, autobiographical. This deliberate and ostentatious, almost anti-academic, humor is part of his charm. Read More
