Phillip Giambri

Phillip Giambri aka “The Ancient Mariner” left home at eighteen and never looked back. He’s seen and done what others dream of or fear. That’s how he lives and that’s what he writes.

His 2022 memoir Good Boy, Bad Boy, A Better Man covers his early life in the 40s in South Philadelphia up to his life in the East Village in the 70s. Phillip’s 2020 novelette The Amorous Adventures of Blondie and Boho is a story of love, survival, and gentrification in NYC’s East Village and the chapbook Poems from an Unending Pandemic offers his perspective on NYC life during the COVID-19 pandemic. His 2017 chapbook Love Borne in Retrograde is a collection of love poems and erotica and the 2016 memoir Confessions of a Repeat Offender is a compilation of his performance stories and poems. 

His work has appeared in From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream (Unbearables Anthology 2017) Eternal Snow: A Worldwide Anthology of 100 Poets with Yuyutsu Sharma, Home Planet News (Issues #2, #5, and #8), Sensitive Skin Magazine, Artists in the Kitchen, “Walt’s Corner” (The Long Islander), Silver Birch Press, NewYorkCityTalking.com and the prestigious Revista de traduceri literare (Review of Literary Translations) #5 and #56 (Bucharest, Romania).  He has been featured in a 2016 New York Times story/interview, The Villager, Chelsea News, and in 2017 on WBAI’s “Talk Back” FM radio with Corey Kilgannon.  He was also a featured poet at the historic Club A in Bucharest, Romania. 

Phillip produced and curated a popular monthly spoken word/poetry series, Rimes of The Ancient Mariner for five years, was Associate Producer Off-Broadway production of “Intrusion” (Written and performed by Qurrat Ann Kadwani), as well as producing and performing in special collaborative events with other artist/performers; Barflies & Broken Angels, The Nickie, Jameson, and Fred Show, What the Hell Is Love?, The Losers Club, Are You Dangerous, What Were the ‘60s Really like? New York Story Exchange, and 10 Penny Comedy Show.