Claudio Pozzani is an Italian poet, writer, narrator, and musician whose poems have been translated and published in more than ten languages. In 1995 he created the Genoa International Poetry Festival, Parole Spalancate, the oldest and biggest poetry event in Italy of which he is still the director. In 2015, he co-founded the European platform Versopolis, which now includes thirty festivals. In 2001, he founded the Stanza della Poesia in Genoa. His published and recorded works include the CD/book (poetry and music) La Marcia dell’ombra, the anthology Spalancati spazi – Poesie 1995 – 2016, the DVD of the live reading-concert with the PoetOrchestra La realtà della speranza and the novels Kate et moi and Confessioni di un misantropo.
