Italian Medievalisms in Contemporary Poetry

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Italians and Italianists at Kalamazoo

Organizer Name

Lisa Ampleman

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Cincinnati

Presider Name

Karina Attar

Presider Affiliation

Queens College, CUNY

Paper Title 1

Virgil as Skeptical Guide: Dante and Kent Johnson’s Travels and Interactions through Poetry

Presenter 1 Name

Jonathan Lohr

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Temple Univ.

Paper Title 2

Poetic Deaths: Memento Mori in Dante’s La vita nuova and Louise Glück’s Vita nova

Presenter 2 Name

Ellen Elder

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Clermont College, Univ. of Cincinnati

Paper Title 3

Wonder and The Other-World of Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Medieval Italian Poetry

Presenter 3 Name

Daniel C. Remein

Presenter 3 Affiliation

New York Univ.

Paper Title 4

“A Poetry Not to be Squandered”: Richard Jackson and Contemporary Reception of Petrarch

Presenter 4 Name

Lisa Ampleman

Start Date

13-5-2012 8:30 AM

Session Location

Valley I Shilling Lounge