Daniel Borzutzky is the author of The Performance of Becoming Human, recipient of the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry. His other books include In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy…
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Christina Pugh is the author of four full-length books of poems: Perception (Four Way Books, forthcoming 2017); Grains of the Voice (Northwestern University Press, 2013); Restoration (TriQuarterly Books, 2008); and Rotary (Word Press, 2004); and the chapbook Gardening at Dusk …
Dante Now! A Divine Comedy Flashmob
Friday September 29 from 2-5pm at various locations around campus
Please join Italian Studies at Notre Dame for an afternoon of recitations of excerpts from Dante's Commedia performed around campus, followed by a lecture by Theodore Cachey (Notre Dame), Christian Moevs (Notre Dame) and Anne Leone (Notre Dame), and a reception in Carey Auditorium.
Please feel free to view the video of lthe inaugural Dante Now! performance, and to read an article published in The Observer on September 26, 2013 about the event.
Johannes Göransson will read from his three recent books of translation – Hackers by Aase Berg, Which once had been meadow by Ann Jäderlund and Sense Violence by Helena Boberg, as well as some recent translations of Kim Yideum.…
Enrico Terrinoni, Chair in English Literature at the Università per Stranieri di Perugia, and the Italian translator of Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, will speak on the topic: “Joyce, Giordano Bruno, and the ‘Worlds of Words'."
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Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the National Bestselling novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award’s Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader’s Choice Award, as well as the novel Dora: A Headcase. …
Jeannine Pitas will read from I Remember Nightfall by Marosa Di Giorgio (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017).
Jeannine is a writer, teacher, and Spanish-English literary translator currently living in Dubuque, Iowa, where she teaches at the University of Dubuque. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks and the translator of several Uruguayan poets. She has published translations of acclaimed Uruguayan writer Marosa di Giorgio’s work, The History of Violets, I Remember Nightfall…
Kellie Wells the 2017 Richard Sullivan Prize Winner for her short story collection God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna reads at Notre Dame (location TBA) on December 6, 2017.
Kellie Wells graduated from the University of Kansas…
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