AUTHOR'S DOSSIER

The work

Each work belongs to one room only.

The papers Visual and documentary poetry 9

Texts that inhabit a document. Forms, certificates, reports, maps: I fill them in until they give way, and from there you start to see who was behind them.

  • Six Wastesballast · n. 4.3 · USAsequence, single-author issue
  • Thermometer for a Fever Called HumanCathexis Northwest Press · USA
  • Culology34thParallel · n. 144 · USA
  • Three FormsDouble Dutch · n. 7 · Paesi Bassi
  • ElectrocardiogramM58 · Regno Unito · in uscita
  • Survey of a Mother TongueThe Wise Owl · Indiathree visual works
  • Protocol for Declaring the Human Still PresentO:JA&L · Hot Button Press · USApamphlet
  • The Office of Human RemainingO:JA&L · USAprose in the form of a document
  • Partial Transcript — Call 3 of 7 · Voicemail, Not DeletedTOB · Danimarca · in uscitaprose in the form of a document
The living Ecological poetry 4

Poems for what breathes and for what has stopped. Under each one sits a real figure, because pity without precision is just another way of looking away.

  • The SignalPoetry Lab Shanghai · Cinawith Chinese translation
  • Rights of the EarthThe Ecological Citizen · vol. 9 n. 2, pp. 190-191 · Regno Unito
  • Storage · Early Warning SystemAmerican Poetry Journal · n. 22 · USA
  • The Beasts Who Try to Make Him HumanStrange Horizons · Regno Unito · in uscita
The names Civic poetry 5

Those who stay, those who leave, those registered under a provisional name. I write so that a list may become a roll call again.

  • Inventory of the Grandmothers Who StayedO:JA&L · USAwith critical reading
  • The Price of the HoursTa Adesa · Ghanatriptych
  • Three Notes · Breaking BreadThe Intima · USA
  • Thursday, Taxi from LinateONE ART · USA
  • The Wrong NounsBeyond Queer Words · Germania · in uscita
The rooms Fiction 32

Stories. Offices, kitchens, hospital wards, nights without power. Evil, when it comes, comes from things that work; good, when it comes, from somebody who gets the procedure wrong.

Stories in English

  • Distinguishing FeaturesAfrican Writer Magazine · Nigeria · link
  • ClearanceHeavy Feather Review · USA
  • The Office of Managed Decline34thParallel · n. 144 · USA · link
  • The Things We Leave at the DoorThe Open Doors Review · n. 9 «Thresholds/Soglie» · Internazionale
  • Best AdaptabilityKitaab · Singapore · in uscita
  • Case ClosedHare's Paw Literary Journal · USA
  • The Last BreachGriffel · Regno Unito · in uscita
  • The AlgorithmSuperlative · USA · in uscita
  • Step-Ball-Change3Elements Review · USA
  • UnsubscribeGotham Literature · USA · in uscita
  • CallismBath Flash Fiction Award · Regno Unito
  • Recoverable LossSpace and Time · n. 151 · USA
  • I Work in HR and Every Out-of-Office Auto-Reply…Little Old Lady Comedy · USAsatire

Stories in Italian

  • Il cielo dietro gli occhiL'Appeso · Italia
  • Il PianoRisme · «L’oggetto mancante» · Italia
  • Mettece 'sta facciaTerranullius · Italia
  • Il CapofficinaIl Paradiso degli Orchi · Italia
  • Mutismo selettivoRivista BLAM · Italia
  • L'aggiornamentoCohibeo · Italia
  • La schedaOffline · Italia
  • The SubstanceIn fuga dalla bocciofila · Italia
  • QuietoProelioLab · n. 9 · Italia
  • ControtransfertNido di Gazza · Italia
  • 1982Giulio Perrone · antologia «È come estate» · Italia

Dark rooms — horror, weird, speculative

  • DermographyThe Literary Hatchet · n. 41 · USA
  • The Vesselhexfiled · n. 1 · USA
  • AkazukinThe Genre Society · n. 9 · USA
  • Last WeekendHorror Sleaze Trash · Australia
  • The Fear DealerDragon Soul Press · vol. 3 · USAten drabbles
  • The Boy Next Door · The TableparABnormal Magazine · USAtwo poems: kept here by genre

Readings and audio

  • Forty-NineKaidankai · Giapponepodcast
  • The Mercy ProtocolWILDsound · Canadavideo reading

I look for the exact point where a perfect system stops protecting and starts devouring… Form is the monster.

The ideas Essays 3

Essays on power, on form, and on the language with which one hides inside the other.

  • Biodiversità Letteraria: On Hybrid Form and the Page as EcosystemAsymptote · n. 60 · Taiwan
  • The Apocalypse Before DinnerCha: An Asian Literary Journal · Hong Kong
  • The Voice That RemainsThe Intima · Crossroads · USAshort prose

Three voices

This is dystopian lyric, weaponized bureaucracy, interventionist poetry.
— ballast, editorial, issue 4.3
By ending with this unresolved generosity, the poem refuses both nostalgia and despair.
— Jeff Streeby, Open: Journal of Arts & Letters
Micozzi becomes the spokesman of literary biodiversity: an organic, untamed way of writing that refuses the tidy classifications dear to publishers and algorithms.
— Lee Yew Leong, editor-in-chief, Asymptote, editorial of issue 60
The other critical voicesClose the other voices
“In over thirty years as a magazine, anthology, and novel editor, I have received very few pieces better written than this.”
— H. David Blalock, editor, parABnormal Magazine (USA)
“One of the most distinctive submissions we've considered: we admired its formal intelligence and irony.”
— Lee Yew Leong, editor-in-chief, Asymptote, on “ANNOTATION”
“The piece drew praise from the readers: I am sincerely pleased to announce its acceptance.”
— Jeff Streeby, Submissions Editor, Open: Journal of Arts & Letters (USA), on “Protocol for Declaring the Human Still Present” (13 August 2026)
“The Italian literary world needs poets like Gabriele Micozzi, capable of sinking the scalpel into the wounds of life.”
— Gordiano Lupi, literary critic
“The concept is splendid and the development masterful: the piece transforms inbox anxiety into an existential and uncanny experience.”
— Daniel T. Wittenberg, publisher, Gotham Literature (USA), on “UNSUBSCRIBE”
“We truly love this series and, if you're open to it, we would like to publish it as a special, standalone portfolio.”
— BALLAST Journal editorial team (USA), invitation to develop “Six Wastes”
“A witty and heartfelt piece: perfectly at home with us.”
— Lauren Mouat, editor, The Open Doors Review, on “The Things We Leave at the Door”