Description:
Look What I Did About Your Silence is a multilingual anthology compiling contemporary poetry from the United States and Europe addressing the many ways poets contemplate and respond to the concept of silence: divine and interpersonal silences; as well as the silences in public spaces that allow for everyday injustices and great atrocities. Edited by Matt Sedillo, Edoardo Olmi, gábor g.gyukics and Loris Ferri. Cover art by Alessandro Giampaoli.
Look What I Did About Your Silence features poems by Lorna Dee Cervantes, Luis J. Rodriguez, Tongo Eisen-Martin, gábor g.gyukics, Loris Ferri, Edward Vidaurre, Matt Sedillo, Adam Feinstein, Lynne Thompson, Ewa Chrusciel, Alyesha Wise, Natasha Sardzoska, Yazmin Monet Watkins, Károly Bari, Edoardo Olmi, Cory "Besskepp" Cofer, Rich Ferguson, Susan Hayden, Silvia Rosa, Erzsébet Tóth, Raffi Joe Wartanian, Angelo Mazzei "Di Poggio," Roland Orcsik, Ludovica Lanini, Dafne Rossi, Ceasar K. Avelar, Iris De Anda, Natalie Sierra, Margaret Elysia Garcia, Vanessa Torres-Mayorga, Ellen Webre, Solomon Rino, Bernadette McComish, Frankie Hernandez and David A. Romero.
Look What I Did About Your Silence features poems in English, Italian, Hungarian, and Macedonian.
Brief description: Matt Sedillo has been described as the "best political poet in America" as well as "the poet laureate of the struggle." His work has drawn comparisons in print to Bertolt Brecht, Roque Dalton, Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, Carl Sandburg, and various other legends of the past. Sedillo was the recipient of the 2017 Joe Hill Labor Poetry award, a panelist at the 2020 Texas book festival, a participant in the 2012 San Francisco International Poetry Festival, the 2022 Elba Poetry Festival, and the recipient of the 2022 Dante's Laurel. Sedillo has appeared on CSPAN and has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Axios, the Associated Press among other publications. Sedillo has spoken at Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba, at numerous conferences and forums such as the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, the National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education, the National Association of Chicana/Chicano Studies, the Left Forum, the US Social Forum, and at over a hundred universities and colleges, including the University of Cambridge, among many others. Matt Sedillo is the author of Mowing Leaves of Grass (FlowerSong Press, 2019) and City on the Second Floor (FlowerSong Press, 2022). Both of which are taught at universities throughout the country. Sedillo is the current literary director of The Mexican Cultural Institute of Los Angeles.