Poetry Reading

Prize-winning poet, translator and editor Peter Covino will read from and discuss his work. He is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Rhode Island, and author of the poetry collections The Right Place to Jump (2012) and Cut Off the Ears of Winter (2005), both from W. Michigan University Press, New Issues. His prizes include the 2007 PEN American/Osterweil Award for emerging poets, the Frank O’Hara Poetry Prize for his chapbook, Straight Boyfriend (2001). His co-edited volume, Essays on Italian American Literature and Culture, recently appeared from Bordighera Press, CUNY (2012). Covino is also one of the founding editors of Barrow Street, and since 2009 he’s been the poetry editor of VIA: Voices in Italian Americana.