On September 27, Stone Oven House hosted a poetic journey with Guido Celli, a poet and performer who embodies language through voice, body, and improvisation. In The Abyss and The Oasis, the audience was immersed in a raw and instinctive experience, where poetry was not just recited but brought to life—a space where the poetic act unfolded in its most vital and unfiltered form.

Born in Rome in 1979, Guido Celli has collaborated with artists such as Flavio Giurato, Joe Lally, Arash Irandoust, and Daniele Aristarco. His personal journey intertwines with physical labor—working as a porter, warehouseman, and construction worker—and with his time as a boxer, experiences that seep into his writing, making it deeply rooted in the body.

Through his solo voice performances, Celli brings poetry beyond the page, creating spaces where words transform into lived experience. He has staged the piece Era solo un ragazzo (For a Pedagogy of Fathers in a Poem) with Caterpillar and the show Sem Plumas - Poesia Carnale. He is also the voice of the spoken word group Cor:unedo, curator of the poetry section of L’Almanacco de La Terra Trema, and founder of the publishing house Sem Plumas.

In The Abyss and The Oasis, poetry became an act of presence: a vital laboratory, a space where language and life were inseparable, each incomplete without the other.