Venanzio Ugo "Vincent" Ferrini[1] (June 24, 1913 – December 24, 2007) was an American writer and poet from Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Vincent's parents, John and Rita Ferrini, were Christian anarchists who emigrated from Raiano and Bella, Italy in the region of Abruzzi to work in the shoe factories of Lynn, Massachusetts.
Ignoring his father's warning that the son of a shoe worker could never become a poet, Vincent published his first volume of poetry, "No Smoke" in 1940.
[2] He pursued his education in the Lynn Public Library and when the Great Depression hit, the young bard found work as a teacher in the WPA.
In 1943, Mike Gold of the Daily Worker praised "Injunction", a collection of working class vignettes set against the backdrop of World War II.