Carmine Giordano

Carmine Giordano was born in Brooklyn, New York and experienced Italian-American family life in a transitional Brooklyn

neighborhood. After high school, he entered the Trappist order, a group of monks living a cloistered existence. His transition from a person of faith to a mortal and sober citizen of the world is a major theme in his writing.

Carmine is a nationally certified psychoanalyst, a graduate of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP), and a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP). He is now retired from his analytic practice but is a frequent contributor of essays, book reviews and poetry to the NAAP Newsletter.

In addition to his analytic work and experience, he has a Master’s Degree in English Literature from New York University and was a recipient of a Fulbright Award for Study in Italy. He is an associate editor of Abalone Moon, an online poetry magazine in restoration. He has spent most of his life teaching writing and literature in high schools and colleges in New York, Georgia and Florida. He lives in his happy retirement with his lovely wife Ronnie in New York and Florida where he is an Adjunct lecturer at Palm Beach State College.

He is the author of six collections of poetry: The Courage of Flowers, The Hero’s Journey, Still Sing, The Habit of Spring, Collected Poems 2020, and Saving Daylight.