Gabriele Micozzi is an Italian writer and poet living in the Marche region. The “Six Wastes” sequence was developed in English; the larger manuscript-in-progress, Cronache dall'Antropocene, is bilingual. His work has appeared in 3Elements Review, Cathexis Northwest Press, ONE ART, and The Literary Hatchet, with further recognition from parABnormal Magazine. His Italian poetry collections include Peccati, Perversioni, Preghiere (AttraVerso, 2025) and Erosferica (Transeuropa, 2026).

About “Six Wastes”:
“Six Wastes” is a sequence of six certificate-poems. The poems map the contemporary landscape of anthropogenic damage through six bureaucratic categories: acoustic pollution, light pollution, digital contamination, food industry, biodiversity loss, and linguistic pollution. Each is formatted as an administrative document — a certificate of disposal — issued under the imagined authority of the Anthropocene Bureau of Damages.

The sequence treats biodiversity as encompassing not only the extinction of species but also the disappearance of singular biographies — the dialect word, the small craft, the unrepeatable gesture of a single life. The thesis is that taxonomic and biographical losses are governed by the same mechanism: the withdrawal of attention.