Domenico Capilongo
Award-Winning Author, Educator, & Karate Instructor
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1972
(2023)
It all started with a tweet. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary tweeted about a new feature on their website called Time Traveler. Users can enter any date and find out which words were added to the dictionary that year. The tweet invited people to see which words were added the year they were born. This excited me and got me writing. 
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Third Place Winner
The Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Poetry Prize 2024
Capilongo uses memory to bring back his picaresque Italian past. It is a past imbued with his warm and witty poetic voice and attitude; this is his poetic strong suit or charm.
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Capilongo’s affectionate rehearsal of his personal Italian Canadian “ethnic” past links it both to avant-garde modes of modern literature, and modern poetry in particular, while also insistently attributing to both his memory of cultural origins also irreducibly rooted in the very grounds of a civilizing tongue.
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The Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Poetry Prize 2024
Domenico Capilongo writes solid poetry that you can depend on, every time out. These are sweet, smart, clever, witty, funny, incisive poems that will re-wire your future communication.
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About Domenico Capilongo
I'm a writer, karate instructor, teacher, dad, husband, and Toronto guy. I have written four books of poetry and one of short fiction. I am a former Ontario Provincial Karate Champion and National Medalist. I teach and train with the Toronto Wado-Ryu Karate Club and as an assistant karate instructor with the GTA YMCA. I am a member of the Association of Italian Canadian Writers, The League of Canadian Poets, The Writer's Union, The Ontario Karate Federation, and the Wado-Ryu Karate-do Academy.