Dennis Formento lives near New Orleans. His poetry books include Spirit Vessels (FootHills Publishing, 2018) Looking for An Out Place (FootHills, 2010,) and Cineplex (Paper Press, 2014.) Chapbooks include Hand Signals (Fell Swoop, 1989,) The Big Book of Holy Wars,with Arturo Pfister, No Name Press, 1992,) William Faulkner Lives and Dies in Camelot, (BullHead Press, 1995) Ra Blues Are (Upteem Press, 2003). Edited Mesechabe: The Journal of Surregionalism, 1991-2001. He has collaborated with musicians locally and in Italy. Dennis has organized readings for 100,000 Poets for Change, since 2011. In September 2023 Dennis won first prize for poetry manuscript of the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society, for Phaeton’s Wheels (Lavender Ink, 2024).
