chiara laricchiuta
Lazarus
Covered in ash
battered by
men
who battled
the snakes
abandoned by mothers
left to survive
like the renaissance of spring
a plethora of color
a revival of verve
the dea
among the living
give rise
to the
light
Recollections of My Soul, AOS Publishing, 2023, p.19
Chiara Laricchiuta was born in Bathurst, New Brunswick and was raised by Italian immigrant parents in Montreal. She is a proud Canadian with very strong roots in her Italian culture. Chiara has been writing creatively for over two decades and is also a college professor in Montreal.
Since July 2023, two of her poetry collections have been published, Recollections of My Soul and North Star.
When she isn’t teaching or writing, Chiara loves to travel with her family.