# Edward Coletti

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**Ed Coletti** is an American [poet](/source/Poet) and [painter](/source/Painting). His most recent full-length collection of poetry is *The Problem With Breathing* (Edwin E. Smith Publishing. 2015).

## Life

**Ed Coletti** lives in [Sonoma County, CA](/source/Sonoma_County,_CA) where he founded and curated the [San Francisco Bay Area](/source/San_Francisco_Bay_Area)-wide SoCoCo reading series and the Poetry Azul series. He has also worked as a [vocational rehabilitation](/source/Vocational_rehabilitation) counselor and as a [business consultant](/source/Business_consultant).

Born in New York, Coletti moved to [Santa Rosa, California](/source/Santa_Rosa,_California) after serving in the [Vietnam War](/source/Vietnam_War). He is a graduate of [Georgetown University](/source/Georgetown_University) and completed a Masters in Creative Writing under Robert Creeley at [San Francisco State University](/source/San_Francisco_State_University), [San Francisco](/source/San_Francisco). Later he obtained a second master's degree in Management at [Sonoma State University](/source/Sonoma_State_University). He is the publisher of the small press *Round Barn Press* and writes for his [blogs](/source/Blogs) *Ed Coletti's P3* and *No Money in Poetry*.

Besides his full-length collections and [chapbooks](/source/Chapbooks) of poetry, Coletti's work has appeared in two [anthologies](/source/Anthologies) — *Avanti Popolo*, James Tracy, ed. (Manic D Press), and *An Anthology of Ars Poetica*, Jennifer Hill and Dan Waber, eds. (Paper Kite Press),

His work has appeared in the following journals: *Light Year* (Bits Press), [ZYZZYVA](/source/Zyzzyva_(magazine)), [North American Review](/source/North_American_Review), [Brooklyn Rail](/source/Brooklyn_Rail), Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, *divide*, ([University of Colorado](/source/University_of_Colorado)), Blueline, Stymie Magazine, Big Bridge, Spillway Magazine, Orbis ([England](/source/England)), Jerry Jazz Musician, Tucumcari Literary Review, the Kickass Review, Parting Gifts Quadrant ([Australia](/source/Australia)), Green's Magazine, Gryphon, The Pedestal, Italian American, Cyclamen and Swords ([Israel](/source/Israel)), The New Verse News, and other journals and anthologies. He is indexed in Granger's *American Poets*.

Coletti writes, “ There was a time when I almost completely gave up writing. This was during the years 1973-1987. Then I reclaimed my [soul](/source/Soul) and have written and published regularly again from 1987 to the present."

## Bibliography

- *thawts : Selected Poems of Edward Coletti*, PoetWorks Press (August 1, 2000, 2d edition 2006), ISBN 1-930293-12-7
- *Between Trellis and Glass*, dPress, 2006.
- *Bringing Home the Bones*, dPress, 2006.
- *Quiet Now*, Kapala Press, 2007.
- *[Carlos](https://web.archive.org/web/20131104221410/http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=printpage&pid=3724%2F)*, Round Barn Press, 2008.
- *Jazz Gods*, Round Barn Press, 2010.
- *When Hearts Outlive Minds*, [Conflux Press](http://www.confluxpress.com/), 2011.
- *Germs Viruses & Catechisms*,[Civil Defense Publications](http://civildefensepubs.wordpress.com/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20140814163658/http://civildefensepubs.wordpress.com/) 2014-08-14 at the Wayback Machine, 2013.
- *The Problem With Breathing*,[Edwin E. Smith Publishing](http://www.edwinesmith.com/), 2015.

## References

- [Sonoma County Writers Guide](http://socolitupdate.com/), accessed December 15, 2005
- [No Money In Poetry](http://edwardcolettispoetryblog.blogspot.com/)
- [http://edcolettip3.blogspot.com/](http://edcolettip3.blogspot.com/)
- [Paintings](https://www.flickr.com/photos/edcolettipaintings/)
- [http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/2010_Art/Coletti/Coletti_Another_Bird.HTM](http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/2010_Art/Coletti/Coletti_Another_Bird.HTM)

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