Francesco Levato<p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Introduction</span></a>: I'm a <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Poet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poet</span></a>, <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Professor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Professor</span></a>, <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Translator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Translator</span></a>, and <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/NewMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewMedia</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Artist</span></a>. I work in <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Experimental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Experimental</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Poetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poetics</span></a>, <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/DigitalLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalLiterature</span></a> (<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/eLit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eLit</span></a>), <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Erasure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Erasure</span></a>, <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Collage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Collage</span></a>, and <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Hybrid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hybrid</span></a> works that blend the textual with the digital (including <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/PoetryFilm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoetryFilm</span></a>, <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/VideoGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VideoGames</span></a>, <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/GlitchArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlitchArt</span></a>, and <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AIArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIArt</span></a>).</p><p>My most recent book, SCARLET, is a collection of digital-visual <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poems</span></a> created through <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/erasure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>erasure</span></a> of the novel The Scarlet Plague, by Jack London, collaged with glitched imagery from everyday life during the pandemic.</p>