Italian Poetry Review - IPR

“Italian Poetry Review - IPR” is an international plurilingual journal of creative writing and criticism. A double-blind peer-reviewed class A publication for Area 10 sector F2 Contemporary Italian Literature-classification (ANVUR), IPR is part of a wider cultural program associated with the Department of Italian at Columbia University, al Department of Modern Languages and Literatures of Fordham University (NY, New York) and the Department of French and Italian Studies at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA).

IPR accepts texts principally (though not exclusively) in Italian or English, and is the first journal established in the United States to be published in Italy that is dedicated to the critical reception and plurilingual diffusion of Italian poetry in a broad comparative context.

Each issue of IPR, which features all periods of Italian poetry, is composed of various sections: Crestomazia Minima (a selection of passages on the phenomenology of writing), Editorial, Poetry (original works by well-known Italian poets as well as non-canonical and emerging authors), Translations (from and into Italian), Between prose and poetry (prose poems, short stories, one-act plays), Poetology and Criticism (critical essays on poetry, interviews), Dossier (collections of contributions on a specific poet or scholar), Reviews and Books Received.

IPR seeks to establish dialogue between specialized and non-specialized readers of poetry. It looks to Italophone literature across the globe from its origins to the hyper-contemporary, and follows its intersections with other artistic modes both in and outside of Italy. IPR appears in print once a year and has been published in Florence by the Società Editrice Fiorentina since 2007. “Italian Poetry Review” was the 2013 winner of the Catullo Prize for the “Dissemination of Italian Poetry throughout the world” category.

Ungarettiana

Poetry, translation and essay series directed by Paolo Valesio and Alessandro Polcri

Ungarettiana "seeks to cultivate a poetic experience in which a strong sense of the Italian identity can coexist alongside a meaningful aperture to the international. The series collection includes monolingual books (in Italian), dual translations, and essays. «We are convinced that poetry is first and foremost a search for language as well as a language of searching. But what we ultimately seek is not—as often happens in contemporary lyric poetry—an excess of the lowest aspects of existence often reduced to a catalogue of insignificant facts narrated in a faded language; what we are looking for, if anything, is a new and intensified volume of life, of thought. The style is the form of that volume and it will be at times simple and — why not? — at times complex and select. Nevertheless, it will be the poets we chose to lead us to places we as yet know not».

(From the directors’ statement)

Volumes published:

Martina Della Casa e Clémence Bauer (eds.), Prospettive incrociate. La poesia nella Svizzera italiana: dialoghi e letture, preface by Fabiano Alborghetti, 2019.
Anna Corrias, Eva Del Soldato, Marcella Marongiu and Laura Refe (eds), Simona Mercuri, Umanesimo latino e volgare. Studi su Fonzio, Poliziano, Pico e Machiavelli, foreward by Francesco Bausi, 2019.
Angelo Scipioni, De renuntiatione. Scritture di mari(lyn)ologia, preface by Guido Monti, 2019.
Giuseppe Gazzola (eds.), Mallarmé,(verse and prose), Italian translation by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, second unpublished version, 2018.
Corrado Paina, Largo Italia, preface by Alessandro Ruggera, 2018.
Pietro Rapezzi (ed.), Michele Marullo Tarcaniota, Poesie d’amore, facing text in Latin, preface by Silvia Rizzo, 2017.
Tania Collani e Martina Della Casa (eds.), Attraversare le parole. La poesia nella Svizzera italiana: dialoghi e letture, preface by Niccolò Scaffai, 2017.
Mauro Roversi Monaco (Alinari Prize, 2014 finalist), Mauritania, preface by Stefano Colangelo, 2016
Antonio Bux (Alinari Prize, 2014), Kevlar, preface by Vicenç Llorca i Berrocal, afterword by Martín López-Vega, 2016
Teodolinda Barolini (eds.), Antonio Barolini. Cronistoria di un'anima (Proceedings of the Centenary Conference in New York and Vicenza), 2015
Mario Moroni, Recitare le ceneri, preface by Carlo Alberto Sitta, 2015
Marco Sonzogni, Ci vuole un fiore, preface by Gabriella Sica, 2014
Alberto Bertoni, Traversate, preface by Paolo Valesio, 2014
Patrizia Santi, Frammenti, periferici, preface by Alberto Bertoni, 2013
Leopoldo María Panero e Ianus Pravo, Senz'arma che dia carne all' «imperium», introduction by Andrea Ponso, 2011
Vera Lucia de Oliveira, La carne quando è sola, preface by Paolo Valesio, preface by Alessio
Brandolini, 2011
Emma Pretti, I giorni chiamati nemici, afterword by Mauro Ferrari, 2010

"Piero Alinari" International Poetry Prize

The Vittorio and Piero Alinari Foundation, in collaboration with the international journal "Italian Poetry Review - IPR", holds a poetry competition for unpublished works in Italian on any subject having an international aperture and/or theme: “poems having themes, images, events, experiences (real or imaginary) that go beyond the Italian borders”.

The competition features two categories:

-“Unpublished collection”
-“Unpublished poem”

The “Unpublished collection” prize consists of the publication of the winning work in the “Ungarettiana” poetry and translation series. The “Unpublished poem” prize consists of the publication of the winning work in the “Italian Poetry Review-IPR”.

The jury is composed of:

Alberto Bertoni
Alfredo De Palchi
Enrico Gatta
Simone Magherini
Alessandro Polcri
Davide Rondoni
Andrea Ulivi
Paolo Valesio (President)

Symposia

Between Heaven and Earth Monday, November 4th at 5:00 pm Palazzo Pepoli – Sala della Cultura Via Castiglione 8, Bologna

Barbara Carle and Curtis Dean Smith present the trilingual poetic anthology (Classical Chinese, English and Italian)
Respondent: Paolo Valesio
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Officina della Poesia 2019 October - December, 5:30 pm c/o Libreria Coop Zanichelli – piazza Galvani 1/H, Bologna

"The Officina della poesia series is back. Organized by the Centro Studi Sara Valesio, the series is an exploration of the word in its contemporary becoming, in its inexorable complexity, with authors, books, journals, poetry and stories that break the boundaries of literature, the divisions between poetry and prose, different styles and even languages. Established by the Centro Studi Sara Valesio—CSSV, in collaboration with the Department of Classical Philology and Italian at the University of Bologna, the series is presided over by Alberto Bertoni, poet and professor at the University of Bologna, and poet and essayist Paolo Valesio."
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Roberto Chiesi Presents Thursday, September 26th at 5:00 pm Palazzo Pepoli – Sala della Cultura Via Castiglione 8, Bologna

Roberto Chiesi presents his book Il Cinema di Ingmar Bergman (Gremese Editore, 2018)
Respondents:Raffaele Milani and Paolo Valesio As a tribute to the book, there will be a screening of the fuversion of Bergman's Winter light
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Officina della Traduzione Thursday, February 14th at 5:00 pm San Colombano – Via Parigi 5, Bologna

Todd Portnowitz presents his book of translations Go Tell It to the Emperor: Selected Poems by Pierluigi Cappello and his translation of Midnight in Spoleto by Paolo Valesio
Respondents: Graziella Sidoli and Paolo Valesio
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Enlightenment and Criticism: Foucault interpreter of Kant Tuesday, February 7th at 5:00 pm San Colombano – Via Parigi 5, Bologna

Carlo Galli in dialogo con Guglielmo Forni Rosa e Manlio Iofrida Introduce Paolo Valesio
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Officina della Poesia 2019 January-March, 5:30 pm c/o Libreria Coop Zanichelli – piazza Galvani 1/H, Bologna

"The Officina della poesia series is back. Organized by the Centro Studi Sara Valesio, the series is an exploration of the word in its contemporary becoming, in its inexorable complexity, with authors, books, journals, poetry and stories that break the boundaries of literature, the divisions between poetry and prose, different styles and even languages. Established by the Centro Studi Sara Valesio—CSSV, in collaboration with the Department of Classical Philology and Italian at the University of Bologna, the series is presided over by Alberto Bertoni, poet and professor at the University of Bologna, and poet and essayist Paolo Valesio."
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Maurizio Cucchi Presents Tuesday, November 13th, at 5.30 p.m. Palazzo Fava– Palazzo delle Esposizioni Via Manzoni 2, Bologna

Maurizio Cucchi will presents the latest volume of poems by Paolo Valesio Esploratici Solitarie. Poesie 1990-2017, Rimini: Raffaelli Editore, 2018
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Vittorio Sgarbi Presents Wednesday, September 26th at 5:30 p.m. Palazzo Pepoli – Palazzo della Cultura Via Castiglione 8, Bologna

Vittorio Sgarbi will present his latest book "Dal mito alla favola bella. Da Canaletto a Boldrini" and art book by Ilaria Facci.
Admission is free, though seating is limited.
La prenotazione e vivamente consigliata, mandando una mail al seguente indirizzo: centrostudisaravalesio@genusbononiae.it
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La Pace della Poesia Thursday, July 26th at 9:00 p.m. Biblioteca dell'Archiginnasio – Cortile Piazza Galvani 1, Bologna

The poetic kermesse entitled Peace of Poetry will take place on Thursday, July 26th at 9 pm, in the evocative setting of the Archiginnasio Library courtyard This event is part of the calendar of initiatives Bologna Estate, and specifically the series “Tonight I’ll speak at the Archiginnasio”. “Peace of Poetry” will feature a program of poetry readings, some of which will be bilingual.
Participants include some poets well known on the international scene: Alberto Bertoni of the University of Bologna, Antonello Borra of the University of Vermont, Guido Mattia Gallerani of the University of Bologna, Giuseppe Gazzola of the State University of New York- Stony Brook, Peggy Kidney of the University of California, Eliza Macadan, Romanian poet and translator, Mauro Roversi Monaco and Paolo Valesio, member of the advisory board and President of the Centro Studi Sara Valesio, respectively. The readings will be punctuated by musical interludes featuring Federico Mandini (guitar), Laura Lombardini and Leonardo Carbone (flute).
“Peace of Poetry” evokes the interiority of poetic work, and at the same time the possibility that this elusive interior experience might be the occasion for a rich emotional exchange in today’s world.
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Unity / Plurality of the Self: the Discreet Charm of Psychoanalysis Thursday, June 14th at 5:00 pm San Colombano – Via Parigi 5, Bologna

Speakers: Sergio Benvenuto and Pietro Pascarelli Respondents: Ferdinando Amigoni and Paolo Valesio
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Writers Between Worlds–Scrittori fra più mondi Bologna, 24 novembre 2017, 10.30-19.00, Palazzo Pepoli (via Castiglione, 8)

Scrittori tra due mondi/ Writers Between Two Worlds, the international symposia series organized by the Centro Studi Sara Valesio – CSSV in collaboration with other cultural institutions –and inaugurated three years ago at Montclair State University in New Jersey (USA), is now continuing in Bologna under the name Scrittori fra più mondi / Writers Between Worlds. The difference in the two titles represents a shift in the CSSV’s work, though in essence there is continuity. While in the US context, the dialogue that brought the various speakers together was predominantly with the relationship between Italian and North American experiences, in this session of the symposium, it will concentrate primarily on European experiences in the fields of literature, cinema, radio, linguistics and history.

The CSSV’s tradition of plurilingual translation studies (in Bologna, for example, there will be poetry readings and presentations in Italian, German, English, French and Dutch) is part of its continuing research interest in the activity of intellectuals and artists who, moving between worlds in various senses, have incarnated in experiences not only cultural but also existential some of the many meanings connected to these migrations.
The presenters come from various European and American institutions: Genus Bononiae. Musei nella Città (Bologna), Europa-Universität Flensburg (Germany), Université de Haute-Alsace (France), Casa Editrice Alfred A. Knopf (New York), L.UN.A Libera Università delle Arti (Bologna), University of Edinburgh (Great Britian), University of Bologna, Université de Liège (Belgium) and University of Ferrara.
The symposium is directed by Paolo Valesio and Marcello Neri and coordinated by Flavia Manservigi.
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Sensi e Poesia 2017 Thursday, July 20th at 9:00 pm Library of the Archiginnasio – Courtyard Piazza Galvani 1, Bologna

Against the backdrop of the enchanting Archiginnasio courtyard, poets Alberto Bertoni, Vito Bonito, Mauro Roversi Monaco, Giancarlo Sissa, Enrico Trebbi, Paolo Valesio and Maria Luisa Vezzali will read from their latest collections, with musical accompaniment by students of the Conservatorio G.B. Martini di Bologna.
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The Voice of Poetesses 2017 Tuesday, June 6th at 4:30 pm San Colombano – Via Parigi 5, Bologna

From New Zealand to the United States (Texas and California), Italy (Naples, Pesaro and Bologna) to Israel—spanning two oceans and a sea—arrives a multiplicity of voices and languages (Hebrew, Spanish, English, and Italian) at the service of poetry and prose. This afternoon of study brings together women poets, translators and scholars to discuss questions to which its title—uniting the role of poet (poet-) with that of identity (-esse)—alludes.
Event Creator and Moderator: Graziella Sidoli
Speakers: Barbara Carle, Laura Corraducci, Tal Nitzán, Rita Pacilio, Francesca Serragnoli, Victoria Surliuga
Respondent: Bernadette Luciano
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