Skip to content
poets.ca circle logo black transparent

League of Canadian Poets

  • About
  • Programs & Services
  • Awards & Contests
  • Poetry Community
  • Join
  • Support the LCP
×
  • About
  • Programs & Services
  • Awards & Contests
  • Poetry Community
  • Join
  • Support the LCP
Search

Postcard from Sulmona by Caroline Morgan di Giovanni

By League of Canadian Poets | March 11, 2022
Poem name: Postcard from Sulmona Poet name: Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni Poem begins: Ovid still lives in Sulmona. Change takes place daily in the main piazza where the boy-gods pursue the lovely Laura’s, clever now to amorous enchantment their sweet shoulders turned dark hair shining with curls for change will come their womanhood will change them. O Maestro Ovidius, how you must long for the sun on the bright piazza the sky the color of the Adriatic and you lamenting the loss, like gold snatched away. Ah but your words outlasted the power of empire, the jealous husband, pomp and ceremony in an ancient court. End of poem. Credits and bio: Copyright © Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni Previously published in Second Collection (2013) and in the bilingual chapbook Poems for Two Worlds/ Powsie per due mondi (2022) Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni moved from Philadelphia to Toronto to attend university. She studied English lit , art history, and Italian. She still lives in Toronto where she edited three anthologies of Italian Canadian Prose and Poetry (Voices 1986; Voices 2006; Bravo! 2012). Her poetry books include Looking at Renaissance Paintings and Other Poems (2008), Second Collection ( 2013) and the chapbooks Portrait Gallery (2021) and Poems for Two Worlds/ Poesie per due mondi (2022).
Posted in Poetry Pause
Support poets and poetry in Canada. Donate today.

Established in 1966, the League of Canadian Poets is a National Arts Service Organization dedicated to supporting poets, building poetic communities, supporting inclusive and equitable free expression, and promoting Canadian poets and poetry. 

Site Links

  • About
  • Programs & Services
  • Awards & Contests
  • Poetry Community
  • Join
  • Support the LCP
Member Hub

Get In Touch!

  • League of Canadian Poets
    C/O Centre for Social Innovation
    720 Bathurst St
    Toronto ON
    M5S 2R4
     

  • (416) 504-1657

  • [email protected]

  • The League of Canadian Poets operates remotely; in-person office hours are by appointment only. 

"Poetry means having the courage to forage the depthsof what makes & unmakes us."

–Adebe DeRango-Adem, Author of Vox Humana, 2023 Raymond Souster Award Winner

Donate Today
Poetry needs superheroes. A donation to the League of Canadian Poets supports poets and poetry from coast to coast.

The office of the League of Canadian Poets is situated in the land of Tkaronto which is the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

Footer-logos-resized-new

© 2023 League of Canadian Poets

GoDaddy Web Design
Scroll To Top