Award-winning poet, translator and publishing executive, Jonathan Galassi [2]has most recently published, Left-Handed Poems, the critically-acclaimed translation of Giacamo Leopardi’s [3] poetry collection Canti. He has also translated the poetry and prose of Eugenio Montale [4]and has published several collections of Montale’s work.  He is the author of two volumes of poems, Morning Run and North Street. His poetry has been published poems in such literary journals and magazines as Threepenny Review [5], The New Yorker, [6]The Nation [7] and the Poetry Foundation [8] website. He is President and Publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. [9]

            Among his many honors as a poet, Galassi was awarded a 1989 Guggenheim Fellowship [10] and is an honorary chairman of the Academy of American Poets.  He was poetry editor for The Paris Review [11]for ten years.  Raised in southeastern Massachusetts, Galassi studied poetry at Harvard University with Robert Lowell [12] and Elizabeth Bishop [13].

            Award-winning poet, translator and professor, Jane Tylus [14] is a specialist in Renaissance literature and a professor in the Department of Italian Studies at New York University [14] where she teaches early modern translation history, theory and practice.  Tylus’ translations include the Complete Poems of Gaspara Stampa [15] and The Sacred Narratives of Lucrezia Tornabuoni, [16] the latter for which she won the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women's Translation Award [17].  She has also written articles on translation for Romanic Review [18] and the forthcoming English translation of "Untranslatables."  Tylus is currently writing a book on pilgrimage and the Italian city of Siena.

Her publications include Writing and Vulnerability in the Late Renaissance and Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World, [19] which she co-edited. Dr. Tylus is an editor of the early modern volume for the new Longman Anthology of World Literature. [20]

About Italian American Writers Association (IAWA)

IAWA aims to promote Italian American literature by encouraging the writing, reading, publication, distribution, translation, and study of Italian American writing. Since 1991, IAWA has given voice to writers through its Open Reading series at Cornelia Street Café, now held every other second Saturday of the month. For membership information, please visit www.iawa.net [21].  To learn more about IAWA, also visit the Italian American Writers Cafe blog at http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/italian-american-writers-cafe [22]

Contacts:

Maria Lisella, IAWA Board Member and Co-curator

Phone: (718) 777-1178

Email:  [email protected] [23]

Amy Barone, IAWA Board Member

Phone:  (646) 942-4972

Email:  [email protected]