Radical Poetry Series, The Brooklyn Rail:
Salt Lake City Library, Reading at City Art:
Upcoming events
August
28
2025
Reading with Peter Covino, Betsy Andrews, and Hollis Kurman, Brooklyn NY
Poetry reading with Peter Covino, Betsy Andrews, and Hollis Kurman, Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, NY
Time: 7:00 PM
615 Vanderbilt, NYC
September
22-24
2025
Reading and Invited Lecturer, University of Arkansas
Reading and Invited Lecturer, University of Arkansas, Italian and English Depts. Fayetteville, AK
Recent events
August
23
2025
Reading and Introduction with Peter Covino and Hollis Kurman
Launch of Hollis Kurman’s new poetry book Unlikely Skylight at Barnes&Noble Bridgehampton.
Time: 4.00 PM
Barnes&Noble Bridgehampton
Bridgehampton Commons
Montauk Highway Space # 6
Bridgehampton, NY 11932
April
24
2025
Riff Raff Bookstore with Denise Duhamel
Reading from What Sex Is Death?
Riff Raff Bookstore with Denise Duhamel, Reading from What Sex Is Death? Dario Bellezza, Selected Poems and other new work.
April
9-10
2025
Coordinator URI Spring Literary Symposium, Translation and the Other
Coordinator URI Spring Literary Symposium, Translation and the Other, Panel Presentation with Profs. La Luna and de la Heros, Bauer and Introductions, and facilitated student Introductions of Feature Poets, URI, April 2025.
March
30
2025
Tennessee Williams Literary Festival, Saints and Sinners
“Recovering AIDS Texts: Acts of Remembrance and Defiance”
Tennessee Williams Literary Festival, Saints and Sinners, “Recovering AIDS Texts: Acts of Remembrance and Defiance” with Jewelle Gomez, Tom Cardamone, and Frank Pizzoli, New Orleans.
March
27
2025
Wisconsin Press Poetry Prize in Translation, What Sex Is Death?
Reading, Los Angeles, CA, at the Associated Writing Program Conference
Reading of Selected Poems of Dario Bellezza at the Poetry Series Reading @ AWP.
March
2025
Faculty Showcase Presentation with Profs. James Haile and David Faflik, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
2024
December
2024
Queering Italian Americana Symposium, New York University, Casa Italiana, organized by Ryan Calabretta-Sajder
November
2024
Wisconsin Press Poetry Prize in Translation, What Sex Is Death?
Dario Bellezza, Selected Poems, American Literary Translators Association, Milwaukee, WI, Featured Reading.
June
2024
Italian American Studies Symposium, “Dario Bellezza and Queer Italian America,” Fiesole, Italy
April
2024
Hudson Valley Writers Center, with Patricia Spears Jones, and E.J. Antonio
2023
October
2023
Italian American Studies Association Annual Conference, “Sounding Queerness: Dario Bellezza’s Poetics and Queer Activism as Italian American Legacy,” Fayetteville, AK
March
2023
New Social Environment Program, NSE #771, Brooklyn Rail: with Anthony Roth Costanzo, and William Corwin
March
8-11
2023
Barrow Street at Seattle AWP 2023
January
2023
Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference
“Issues in Contemporary Publishing.” “Editing Workshop.”
Colrain, MA, yearly; fifteen guest appearances and presentations, March 2010–August 2022, Jan. 2023.
2022
December
16
2022
Poets House/WBAI Radio NYC, Open House
Interview on most recent poetry and translations, recorded November 2022.
Radio Broadcast:
Peter on Poets House’
Open House
Peter Covino – poet, translator, and one of the founding editors of Barrow Street Press – reads work in English and Italian, and talks craft with host Patricia Spears Jones.
Broadcast: Friday night 16 December 2022 at 9 pm ET.
This event is part of an on-going series live on Fridays on 99.5 FM in the NYC area, and streaming on WBAI.org.
October
2022
Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY - Reading from new poetry and translations, hosted by Victoria Tomasula
March
23-26
2022
AWP Conference 2022, Kansas City, MO
Participated via Zoom for Barrow Street 20th Anniversary Reading, with Tim Liu, Danielle Legros George, Sally Ball, and Claudia Keelan.
2021
January
2021
Modern Languages Annual Conference
“Sounding Queerness: Dario Bellezza’s Queer Activism and a Legacy for Italian American Poetics,” Online Presentation.
2020
September
2020
Radical Poetry Series, Brooklyn Rail with Patricia Spears Jones
With A. Van Jordan, Michael Broder, Janice Lowe, and Jade Yeung.
2019 and 2020
Longfellow House, Cambridge, MA, Translation Presentation of Dario Bellezza’s Poetry, (rescheduled as a Zoom Presentation) with Maria Louisa Arroyo, August 2020.
Casa Italiana NYC, Personal Effects Paperback Launch, Fordham University Press, March 2, 2020 with Edvige Giunta and Nancy Caronia.
AWP Conference, March 5-7, 2020, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, TX. “Make It New: Creative Empowerment in Independent Small Press Publishing” and Barrow Street Events.
American Literary Translators Association Conference, Rochester, New York, “Sounding Poetry: Dario’s Bellezza’s Re(sounding) Queerness.” Panel with Mira Rosenthal and Curtis Bauer.” November 2019.
Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference, Truchas Peaks Place, Truchas, New Mexico, October 25-28, 2019.
KGB Bar Reading, October 14, 2019, 7pm, 85 E. 4th Street, NY, NY, with Jason Schneiderman and Robert Carr.
Cranston Central Library, Tuesday, April 30, 2019, 14 Sockanosset Cross Rd, Cranston, RI, Poetry Reading with Laura Marie Marciano and Luisa Murillo.
The Center for the Arts at the Armory, Tuesday, April 16, 2019, 7:00 pm – 191 Highland Avenue, Somerville, MA. Reading, with Nausheen Eusuf, and Joan Houlihan.
Princeton Public Library, April 7, 2019, 11-1pm, Reading with Tim Liu, Hayden Saunier, and Dara-Lyn Shrager, Poet-in-Residence.
AWP Portland, March 29, 2019, 6:30-8:30pm, Hosting Barrow Street Press and Ocean State Review Spring Launch Reading, Pacific Northwest College for the Arts with Sally Ball, Curtis Bauer, Tina Barr, and Jacqueline Lyons.
Poets Resist! February 27, 2019, 7-8:30pm, Providence RI – Riff Raff Books, 60 Valley Road, Reading with Jill Pearlman, Tina Cane, and Joanna Brown.
Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference, January 19-21, 2019. The Brandt House, Greenfield, MA.
Tribute to Louise DeSalvo – January 12, 2019, 6-8pm, IAM Books, 189 North Street, Boston, MA with Edvige Giunta, Richard Hoffman, Mary Cappello, Nancy Caronia, Jennifer Guiglielmo and Marianne Leone.
2018
Princeton Public Library, Reading with Martha Rhodes, Tim Liu, and Dara-Lyn Shrager, Poet-in-Residence, 7pm, November 15, 2018.
LGBTI+ Poetry Slam, York College, City University of New York, with Ama Birch, 2-4 pm Room 2D01 Faculty Lounge, Wed. Nov. 14, 2018
The Loom, Inaugural Reading with Joan Houlihan, Harrisville, New Hampshire, St. Denis (former) Catholic Church, November 11, 2018.
Italian American Studies Association Annual Conference, U of Chicago Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, October 2018. “Brevitas: Theorizing Audience in 100-word Online Writing Groups” with Edvige Giunta, Jennifer Guglielmo, Joseph Sciorra, Laura Ruberto. Italian American Studies Association, U of Chicago Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, October 2018.
“Poetry and the Politics of Language” with Kathleen Aguero, Maria Luisa Arroyo, and Quintin Collins. New Hampshire Poetry Festival, September 2018.
Napoli Città Libro Festival, San Domenico Maggiore: part of a ten-day Writers Tour sponsored by Francesco Durante with Stanislao Pugliese; two featured events in Naples; and three additional events, one at Università di Salerno, Fisciano; Fondazione Sassi, Matera, Italy, Museo Archeologico Nazionale “Dinu Adamesteanu” Potenza, Italy, May-June 2018.
“Dario Bellezza, What Sex is Death.” Richmond the American International University of London, Summer Visiting Faculty Fellowship Programme, June 3-June 15, Rome Italy 2018
AWP Conference, Tampa Fl, March 9, 2018, “Power, Change, and the Literary Establishment.” with Katharine Coles, Lucinda Roy, Brynn Saito, Peter Covino, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram.
Calandra Italian American Institute, CUNY – VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, April 2018.
“Issues in Contemporary Publishing.” “Editing Workshop.” Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference. Colrain, MA, yearly; eight guest appearances and presentations, March 2010 – Jan. 2018.
2017
Bryant Park Reading Room, New York City, NY, August 2017.
“Publishing in Italian American Literature,” Italian American Diasporas Symposium, Lecture and Featured Reading, University of Calabria, Rende, Calabria, Italy, June 2017.
“Discovering Dario Bellezza: “Oltraggio e Scandalo Contro Dio,” Nida Translation Institute, Misano, Adriatico, Italy, May 2017.
Calandra Italian American Institute, CUNY – VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, April 2017.
Italian American Bookstore, Boston, MA, April 2017.
2015 – 2016
RAI Television Community, Interview and Video Feature, Puntata 15, October 2016.
“Dario Bellezza from the “Critical Introduction to What Sex is Death, Selected Poems.” Italian American Studies Association. Lecture and Featured Reading. University of Long Beach, Long Beach CA. Nov 2016.
Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA), Hartford Connecticut, March 2016
Center for Book Arts, Broadside Reading, New York, NY, June 2015.
Mishi-Maya-Gat, Spoken Word, Manchester Community College, CT, October 2015.
Personal Effects: Essays on Memory, Culture, and Women in the Work of Louise DeSalvo.” Calandra Institute, CUNY, NY, presentation of chapter. April 2015.
Italian American Studies Association, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, October 2014
