Omero Vecchi, known by the pen name Luciano Folgore, was an Italian poet born in 1888 and who died in 1966. From a young age he wrote verse under various pen names, and he eventually joined the Futurist movement, which Filippo Marinetti particularly admired. Some of his poems appeared in the anthology I poeti futuristi (1912), and he contributed to period magazines such as Lacerba and La voce.
His best-known work within Futurism is the collection Il canto dei motori (1912), in which he describes the modern world of machines using a traditional, decadent language, a deliberate contrast with the aesthetics of the moment. He later published many further poetry books, among them Ponti sull'Oceano (1914), Città veloce (1919) and Musa vagabonda (1927), as well as several volumes of prose.
In the 1930s he also contributed to the satirical magazine Il Travoso. His legacy lies mainly in the tension between Futurist avant-garde and traditional poetic forms, and in his fondness for parody and wordplay.