About

Gabriele Tinti (blog) is an Italian poet and writer.Gabriele Tinti poet and writer, poeta e scrittore.
He has worked with the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Roman Museum, the Capitolini Museums, the Archeological Museum in Naples, the Ara Pacis Museums and the Glyptothek of Munich composing poems for ancient works of art including the Boxer at Rest, the Discobolus, Arundel Head, the Ludovisi Gaul, the Victorious Youth, the Farnese Hercules, the Hercules by Scopas, the Elgin marbles from the Parthenon, the Barberini Faun and many other masterpieces. His poems have been performed by actors like Willem Dafoe, Kevin Spacey and Abel Ferrara.
In 2016 he published “Last words” (Skira Rizzoli) a collection of found poetry in association with Andres Serrano.
In 2018 his ecphrastic poetry project ‘Ruins’ was awarded the Premio Montale with a ceremony at the Museo Nazionale Romano in Palazzo Altemps.
In 2020 Tinti published The Earth Will come To Laugh and To Feast (Powerhouse Books, New York) a poetry collection with illustrations by the artist Roger Ballen. 
In 2021 his Ruins was published by Libri Scheiwiller (Milan) and Eris Press (London). His poetry collection Bleedings- Incipit Tragoedia has been published by La Nave di Teseo (Milan, 2022) and by Contra Mundum Press (New York, 2023).

Interviews:
“Gabriele Tinti”, Brooklyn Rail
“Inspired the Blood: Gabriele Tinti creates poetry at Getty”, Getty Museum
“The Italian poet Gabriele Tinti attempts go give historic statues a voice”, The Times
“Divine Echoes, Confessions by Gabriele Tinti”, Hube Magazine
“Gabriele Tinti, intervista al poeta”, Exibart
“Gabriele Tinti at the LACMA”, Unframed LACMA
“Abel Ferrara and Gabriele Tinti”, METAL Magazine
“Ruins by Gabriele Tinti”, ACE Reader
“Giving Life to Hercules: Q&A with Gabriele Tinti and Joe Mantegna”, Unframed LACMA
“Spectacles of Suffering”: An Interview with Gabriele Tinti, Vol1 Brooklyn
“Rinascita e Rovine”, ICON (In Italian)
“Gabriele Tinti”, Il Sole 24 Ore (In Italian)

Poems online:
“Poem of the week: Gabriele Tinti, The Guardian
“Gabriele Tinti’s poems”, Brooklyn Rail
“Willem Dafoe reads Gabriele Tinti poems”, National Roman Museum
“Christ at the Column”, Purple Magazine
“The Boxer”, Youtube
“Hercules”, Treccani
“The Battle of Alexander” Treccani
“Tyrannicides”, Treccani
“Hermes”, Treccani
“Hesiod”, Treccani
“Runners”, Treccani
“Doriforo”, Treccani
“Il Cantore”, RAI Letteratura
“Il Pugile”, RAI Letteratura
“Apollo”, RAI Letteratura
“Ruins”, Getty Villa, Laboratory Arts Collective
“Ruins”, RAI Letteratura
“Orpheus”, J. Paul Getty Museum
“Il poeta”, RAI Letteratura
“Last words,” Nazione Indiana
“Canti di pietra”, RAI Arte
“Discobolus”, RAI Arte
“The nostalgia of the poet”, Giorgio de Chirico Foundation
“Ariadne”, RAI Letteratura
“The nostalgia of the poet”, RAI Letteratura
“Hercules”, LACMA
“Hercules Part II”, RAI Arte
“Hercules Part I”, RAI Arte
“The Victorious athlete”, J. Paul Getty Museum
“The boxer Part I”, RAI Letteratura
“The boxer Part I-II”, J. Paul Getty Museum
“Ferko”, Frankmatter magazine
“The boxer”, Frankmatter magazine
“Forgive me”, Grey Magazine
“Kid”, “Lament”, “Boom Boom!” and other poems, The Brooklyn Rail- Intranslation
“All over”, Moving Poems
“All over”, Edition Delta (in German)