The poetry workshop with visual artist Riccardo Benassi is part of a series of four sessions exploring writing, the voice, and its contemporary expressions. Designed as a space for listening and discussion, the workshop focuses on the ways in which the written, typed, and spoken word is disseminated and circulated.

Maria Luce Cacciaguerra (Palermo, 1997) began her artistic exploration within the realm of concrete poetry. In 2022, she founded the Murmur collective and serves as editor of the Remedia series for Pungitopo. She recently edited the publication Almanacco Murmur (Paint It Black). Winner of the Meridiana Prize, sponsored by the Madre Museum, she is currently exhibiting her project Santa du pao oco. She was selected for Dial-A-Poem Italy, in collaboration with the John Giorno Poetry System.

Allison Grimaldi Donahue (Middletown, Connecticut, USA), a poet and translator, is the author of The History of Breathing (2025), OnEndings (2019), and Body to Mineral (2016). She has recently presented poetry performances, installations, and collective actions at the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation in Venice, Luci d’Artista in Turin, MACTE in Termoli, the Madre Museum in Naples, Kunsthalle Bern, Sonnenstube in Lugano, ShortTheatre in Rome, and Prosopopoeia in Vienna. She is the recipient of the Italian Council’s Talent Development Award and the Gallarate Prize. She holds a PhD in philosophy from the European Graduate School.

Murmur is a contemporary poetry collective founded in Milan in the winter of 2022 with the aim of revitalizing the art of poetry through encounter. The collective was founded by Maria Luce Cacciaguerra and Greta Sugar, and is curated and led by Maria Luce Cacciaguerra and Allison Grimaldi Donahue. We organize poetry readings and workshops.