Edward Coletti

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Ed Coletti is an American poet living in the Sonoma County, California area.

Born in New York, Ed 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 at California State University, San Francisco or San Francisco State University.

He has been published in two editions of Light Year (Bits Press), divide (Univ. of Colorado, Blueline, the Tucumcari Literary Review, the Orphic Lute, Kickass Review, Parting Gifts, The Harrow, Green's Magazine, Gryphon, The Pedestal, 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 addition to writing, Mr. 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.

Mr. 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. At 62, I’m finally getting around to fuller-time writing and publishing efforts.