Agenda

V. Penelope Pelizzon’s third book of poems, A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye (Pitt Poetry Series, 2024) is a LitHub recommendation for 2024. Her first book, Nostos, won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award;  her second, Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time, was a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and was published simultaneously in the U.K. and the U.S. Pelizzon is also the co-author of Tabloid, Inc., a critical study of film, photography, and crime narratives in the period between 1927-1958. She is a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, where she teaches poetry, creative writing, and nature writing.

Main Speaker:

V. Penelope Pelizzon, Professor of English, University of Connecticut, Visiting Scholar at Ca' Foscari, Fall 2024-2025

Scientific coordinator of the event: Filomena Mitrano

General public, The lecture/poetry reading is open to all: students, researchers, professionals, interested public.