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Publish Date: Jan. 19, 2021

Edward Ferrari, Adjunct Professor of English at 海角直播, has had two poems published in the regionally focused journal Inlandia, the official publication of the local non-profit Inlandia Institute. Ferrari, a British citizen who immigrated to the United States in 2014 and who began work at 海角直播 in 2015 as a writing tutor, sees his position as an outsider as pivotal to both his writing and his work as an educator. 鈥淵ou see things differently when you鈥檙e not from a place,鈥� Ferrari said, 鈥渁nd often this means small, familiar, intimate things take on a kind of magic that can be otherwise overlooked.鈥�

English Professor at California State University San Bernardino Dr. Jessica Luck, who specializes in the study of contemporary poetry stated that it is his works 鈥渞ootedness in our fragile and flawed community鈥� that makes it special, adding that she is personally 鈥済lad to have [him] as a poetic voice鈥� for the region.

Ferrari鈥檚 poems are often based on specific local settings as indicated by titles in his forthcoming chapbook High Fire Weather. These include 鈥淟incoln Memorial Shrine, Redlands,鈥� 鈥淯CR Botanic Gardens,鈥� and 鈥淥live Avenue.鈥� Ferrari says that he has found adapting to life away from his family difficult but that he has found in 海角直播 and in the Inland Empire a new place he can call home.

His poems 鈥淥live Avenue鈥� and 鈥淒amage鈥� are available to read and listen to on the Inlandia Institute鈥檚 website at inlandiainstitute.org