Career
His second book of poetry, Father Silicon, was selected by the Kansas City Star as one of 100 Noteworthy Books of 2006, and his recent work includes editing Rabbit Ears: television Poems (NYQ Books, 2015), reportedly the first anthology of poetry about the mass medium. He has published his poems in The New York Quarterly, Barrow Street, Harpur Palate, Smartish Pace and many other national journals, as well as in journals published in Canada, the United Kingdom, Belgium and India. Allegretti"s fiction has appeared in The MacGuffin, The Adroit Journal, Thrice Fiction and The Nassau Review, among other literary journals.
His performance texts and theater pieces have been staged at Louisiana MaMa Experimental Theater, Medicine Show Theater, the Cornelia Street Cafe and SideWalk Cafe, all in New New York
He is represented in more than a dozen anthologies. Allegretti wrote the texts for three song cycles by Frank Ezra Levy, whose work is released on Naxos American Classics.
