Poet & writer stumbling between the immensities.

Biography

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Carmelo Militano began his writing career as a freelance journalist and broadcaster for CBC Radio One in Winnipeg.

He currently is a poet, writer, editor, teacher, and radio broadcaster.

Militano's poetry, fiction, and non-fiction explores the intersection and meeting of a dual consciousness–Italian & English Canadian–in History, classical myth, family, identity and the erotic.

Carmelo Militano hosted a weekly poetry show at CKUW FM 95.9 (Winnipeg), called the P.I. New Poetry Show, where he interviewed poets and writers. Podcasts can be found at Programs and Archives, CKUW, P.I. New Poetry Show.

His poems, fiction, reviews and essays, and literary interviews have been published in a wide range of publications: Accenti, CV2, Italian Canadiana, La Macchina Sognante (Italy), Lemon Hound, Northern Poetry Review, Quebec Poetry Review, Sangara (Italy), The Lonely Offices, The Pacific Rim Review of Books, The Toronto Quarterly, PopMatters, and Prairie Fire.

Militano is also a member of the Association of Italian-Canadian Writers, League of Canadian Poets, The Writers' Union of Canada, and The National Book Critics Circle (USA).

 

Awards and Shortlists 

F.G. Bressani Award for poetry for Ariadne's Thread, 2004
San Bernardo Poetry Prize (Italy), 2006
Shortlisted – Eileen McTavis Skyes Award (prose), for The Fate of Olives, 2007
Shortlisted – F.G. Bressani Award for poetry for Weather Reports, 2012
Shortlisted – Margaret Laurence Fiction Prize for Sebastiano's Vine, 2014
Shortlisted – Margaret Laurence Fiction Prize for Lost Aria, 2019
Eligible for National Public Readings Program: Yes