Arturo Desimone

Arturo Desimone, Arubian-Argentinian writer and visual artist, was born
in 1984 on the island Aruba which he inhabited until the age of 22, when
he emigrated to the Netherlands. He relocated to Argentina while
working on a long project about his Argentinean family background.
Desimone’s articles, poetry and fiction pieces have previously appeared
in CounterPunch, Island. Círculo de Poesía (Spanish) Sydney Review of
Books, Moko, The Missing Slate, Al Araby Al Jadeed (in Arabic
translation) and New Orleans Review. He writes a blog about Latin
American poetry for the Ex-Drunken Boat poetry review and performed in
poetry festivals in Nicaragua, Cuba, Belgium and Argentina. He
previously published the poetry collections Letters to Karl Marx/
Cartas a Carlos Marx *(2015) with Hanan Harawi, a publisher in Peru,
and Poems of the Costa Nostra, Mare Nostrum (2019, publisher
Hesterglock Protes(x)t, UK)