Franco Cortese

Franco Cortese is an experimental poet living in Thorold, Ontario with his wife, Brittany May, and his son, Maverick. His work has appeared in Canadian Literature, The Capilano Review, filling Station, ditch, and others. His recent chapbooks include aeiou (No Press 2018), uoiea (above/ground press 2019), teksker (Simulacrum Press 2019), Ash Into Brick (Grey Borders Books 2020) and The Thorny Inane (Grey Borders Books 2020). He also has leaflets, booklets and nanopamphlets published or forthcoming through The Blasted Tree, Penteract Press, and Spacecraft Press. His work has been published both within Canada and internationally, most recently in the anthology Concrete and Constraint (Penteract Press 2018).