Italian Poetry in Chicago

Poesia Ultima / Italian Poetry Now
A festival of contemporary Italian poetry and poetics

Featuring four of Italy’s most prominent experimental and
emergent poets—as well as translators and critics—these events
will bring new voices to US readers and expose points of
confluence and conflict between Italian and global poetries.

Thursday, May 28, 5:30 pm
Bilingual reading: Milli Graffi, Maria Attanasio, Marco
Giovenale, Giovanna Frene
University of Chicago, Rosenwald 405
free

Friday, May 29, 1 pm
Poesia Ultima: A Symposium on
Contemporary Italian Poetry and Translation

Moderators: Jennifer Scappettone and
Raffaello Palumbo

1:15-2:30 Roundtable on translation with Lisa Barca, Jacob
Blakesley, Ryan Gogol, Eirik Steinhoff, and Joshua Adams

2:45-4 Roundtable on contemporary Italian poetry and poetics
with Maria Attanasio, Milli Graffi, Marco Giovenale, and
Giovanna Frene

Reception

University of Chicago, Classics 110
free

7:30 pm
Bilingual reading and discussion/ salon featuring Milli
Graffi, Maria
Attanasio, Marco Giovenale, Giovanna Frene Moderated by
Jennifer Scappettone
(University of Chicago), Francesco Levato (Poetry Center), and
Chris Glomski
(UIC)

Th!nkArt Salon in Wicker Park
1530 N. Paulina, Suite F