David Cappella

I am a poet and Professor of English at Central Connecticut State University where I teach creative writing and literature. I've co-authored two widely used poetry textbooks, Teaching the Art of Poetry: The Moves and A Surge of Language: Teaching Poetry Day to Day. Gobbo: A Solitaire's Opera, won the Bright Hill Press Poetry Chapbook Competition in 2006. My poems and essays have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies in the US and Europe. Right now, I am co-translating Tracce di un'anima, a book of poems by the Italian poet Germana Santangelo.

I am an Italian-American Cape Cod boy born in Plymouth, Massachusetts. One grandfather was a lobster fisherman and the other was a farmer. I grew up on a small farm. For several years, I owned an old farm (with a 1790 farmhouse) and taught in western Maine. I know New England like the back of my hand, having traveled throughout the six states since I was eighteen. I spend some part of each summer in Italy. I love to travel.