Joel Allegretti is the author of four collections of poetry: "Europa/Nippon/New York: Poems/Not-Poems" (Poets Wear Prada, 2012); "Thrum" (Poets Wear Prada, 2010); "Father Silicon" (The Poet's Press, 2006), selected by The Kansas City Star as one of 100 Noteworthy Books of 2006, a list that included novels by Cormac McCarthy and Thomas Pynchon; and "The Plague Psalms" (The Poet's Press, 2000). Allegretti's poems have appeared in The New York Quarterly, MARGIE, Fulcrum, Voices in Italian Americana, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, Xcp Cross-Cultural Poetics and many other national journals, as well as in The Best American Poetry blog and journals published in Canada, the United Kingdom and India.His fiction has appeared in Think Journal, The Adroit Journal, autolycus: rogue literary journal and Petrichor Machine. His "Aqua: A Play in One Repeated Act" was a semifinalist in the 2010 KNOCK International Play Contest.His poetry was the basis of two song cycles by Frank Ezra Levy, whose symphonic work is released on Naxos American Classics.Allegretti is a member of the Academy of American Poets and ASCAP.His website is www.joelallegretti.com.