David Cappella is professor of English at Central Connecticut
State University, where he teaches poetry and young adult literature. He has
co-authored two widely used textbooks, Teaching
the Art of Poetry: The Moves and A
Surge of Language: Teaching Poetry Day to Day. His poem series, Gobbo: A Solitaire's Opera, won the 2004
Bright Hill Press Poetry Chapbook Competition and was a finalist for the 2006
Bordighera Prize and the 2008 Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Competition. His
poems and essays have appeared in The Connecticut Review, Diner, The Providence
Journal, and New Hungers for Old:
One-Hundred Years of Italian American Poetry (Star Cloud Press, 2011).
Maria Esposito Frank chairs the Department of Modern Languages and
Cultures at the University of Hartford. She was educated at the University
L'Orientale in Naples, Italy, Moscow State University (MGU), and Harvard
University, where she earned her Ph.D. She is the author of a book on
Renaissance Humanism, Le insidie
dell'allegoria (Venice, 1999) and several articles on Dante's Divine
Comedy, 15th-century thinkers, and contemporary Italian poets. Most recently,
she co-edited The Translator as Mediator
of Cultures (Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2010), and published
an essay on Guido Gozzano, Guido Gozzano:
poetare per la visione in Italian Poetry Review, 2010.
Location: The Studio @ Billings Forge
563 Broad Street, Hartford, CT 06106
Parking available next to Firebox restaurant or along Broad Street.
Free event.
For more information, contact:
Jim
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860-508-2810
