Edward Coletti

Edward Coletti

Ed Coletti is an American Poet and Painter living in the Sonoma County, California area. Born in New York, Coletti moved to Santa Rosa when he returned from the Vietnam War. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and completed a Masters in Creative Writing under Robert Creeley at California State University, San Francisco or San Francisco State University.

Coletti has been published in two editions of Light Year (Bits Press), ZYZZYVA, Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, divide (Univ. of Colorado), Blueline, Stymie Magazine, Big Bridge, Spillway Magazine, Unlikely Stories, Jerry Jazz Musician, Tucumcari Literary Review, the Orphic Lute, Kickass Review, Parting Gifts, The Harrow, Green's Magazine, Gryphon, The Pedestal, Italian Americana, Cyclamen and Swords (Israel, The New Verse News, and other journals and anthologies. He is currently indexed in Granger's American Poets. He published a collection of his poems in 2000, titled thawts: Selected Poems of Edward Coletti with a second edition in 2006. Two other books of poetry have been published by dPress in 2006 and 2007 including Between Trellis and Glass, Quiet Now, and Bringing Home the Bones which is a multimedia epic poem about war, peace, remains, recovery, closure, superstition, and the attempt to find reality after war. In 2010, he published Jazz Gods. His latest collection of poems When Hearts Outlive Minds was published in 2011 by Conflux Press.

His work appears in the anthology of Italian-American poets (with Ferlinghetti, DiPrima, et al.) titled Avanti Popolo edited by James Tracy (Manic D Press) and the anthology poem, home An Anthology of Ars Poetica edited by Jennifer Hill and Dan Waber (Paper Kite Press).

Ed Coletti lives with his wife Joyce in Santa Rosa, California where he founded and operated the respected Bay Area-wide SoCoCo At the Toad Reading and the Poetry Azul Series. Coletti's internet presence includes “Ed Coletti’s P3” and also “No Money In Poetry.”

In addition to writing, Coletti has been a Small Business Consultant specializing in analyzing startups and expansions. Previously, he was a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor and also a college English and Writing instructor. Ed has his own Round Barn Press which publishes poetry and other interesting limited edition books.

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 and have written and published regularly again from 1987 to the present.