Contemporary Italian poetry will be subject of three-day campus symposium

Renowned poets, literary critics and translators will discuss the presence of contemporary Italian poetry in America at a three-day symposium being held on campus Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 12-14.

Titled "The Mouth of Poetry: In Italian in America," the event is the second annual symposium of the Italian Poetry Society of America. It is cosponsored by the Sonia Raiziss Giop Charitable Foundation and Yale.

The symposium will feature readings by three groups of poets: those who are writing contemporary Italian poetry in Italy; Italian-born poets who are now living in the United States; and contemporary Italian-American poets. These include Peter Carravetta, Alessandro Carrera, Patrizia Cavalli, Rosita Copioli, Maurizio Cucchi, Alfredo De Palchi, Luigi Fontanella, Pier Massimo Forni, Ernesto Livorni, Mario Moroni, Eugenia Paulicelli, Silvio Ramat, Antonio Riccardi, Annalisa Saccà, Davide Stimilli, Joseph Tusiani, Paolo Valesio and Cesare Viviani. The readings of Italian poetry will be followed by translations in English.

The symposium will also include two sessions in which literary critics will discuss cultural and epistemological aspects of contemporary Italian poetics in Italy and North America. In addition, there will be a session in which scholars who translate Italian poetry into English will discuss their work.

Thursday's sessions will be held in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St. Friday and Saturday's sessions will take place in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. The symposium is free and open to the public. A complete program for the event can be found on the web at www.yale.edu/ipsa.