Carlo Massimo

Carlo Massimo works as a reporter in Washington. A former contributing editor at the Wilson Quarterly, his poetry and fiction have appeared in the Account, Barzakh, Bitter Oleander, and other journals, as well as La Piccioletta Barca. Follow him on Twitter at @CarloMassimo6.

"When the sirocco blows, it blows round" by Nino De Vita

Nino De Vita (b. 1950) is my cousin; that is, he’s my grandmother’s first cousin, and he looks alarmingly like her ...

The clock has just struck midi: five poems by Mario Scalesi

Paraphrasis

Fiction and Poetry

There was a time when, in the Sicilian port of Trapani, a crowd would gather at the docks once or even twice a week...