URI English Professor Wins Wisconsin Poetry Prize in Translation
February 27, 2024
February 27, 2024
KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Feb. 27 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news:
In the 1980s, as a poetry student in Italy, Peter Covino was introduced to the work of acclaimed Italian poet Dario Bellezza. It's a moment he still remembers.
"It was a big deal to learn at that time that there was this really wild, irreverent writer exploring ideas that I didn't realize would speak to me so directly," says Covino, associate professor of Eng . . .
In the 1980s, as a poetry student in Italy, Peter Covino was introduced to the work of acclaimed Italian poet Dario Bellezza. It's a moment he still remembers.
"It was a big deal to learn at that time that there was this really wild, irreverent writer exploring ideas that I didn't realize would speak to me so directly," says Covino, associate professor of Eng . . .