“PAPI MARIO” is a rapper that was born in Bristol, Connecticut and has developed a skill for writing poetry in the free verse form. PAPI MARIO has been featured on Hubpages.com, NeoPoet.com, Starlitecafe.com & Poetry soup. Vitale lives with his elderly mother Ann Soulier in Wolcott, Connecticut and currently has written well over 3,000 poems & 5 short story’s toward credit platform, he was also featured on Rap Pad with over 300 raps.

Vitale has taken the poetic world by storm being featured on Google, Yahoo & MSN, and looks up to contemporaries in the poetry industry such as John Ashbery & Major Jackson.
Vitale has been a favorite featured poet reader at Barnes & Noble in Waterbury, Connecticut.